Building Effective Teams

Strategies and tools for the best team dynamics and behaviours

Creating, and working within, an effective team is challenging. Teams are an integral part of organizational life, and are necessary to complete complex tasks in the corporate world. As with any endeavour where human beings must interact, the problem of successfully completing a project is complicated by: differing ways of thinking, communication styles, corporate culture, cultural background, experience, gender, and more. Conflict is inevitable and resolution of that conflict is necessary for high performance. This is done by building an awareness of team dynamics; first at an individual team member level, and then at a management level. This course provides strategies and tools for team members, and leaders, to jumping the hurdles that lead to high performance.

Objectives:

This course will enable participants to:

• Understand team dynamics as they occur
• Experience and gain insights into themselves as team members through the use of interactive team building activities
• Identify behaviours of high function team members
• Learn foundational and cutting-edge thinking about team development and high function teams
• See the value of conflict and the need for positive resolution
• Take the FourSight Assessment online prior to the course as a tool in understanding problem solving and creative styles

Learning Outcomes

• Recognize your own behaviour within teams, and have the background to make informed choices about behaviours in the future
• Understand the behaviours of others on teams in which you participate, and have tools for working with them more productively
• Gain an appreciation for the value of diversity of all kinds
• Understand team dynamics and have proven strategies for addressing team conflict and communication challenges, at both member and manager levels
• Create a concrete plan for moving current teams into more high performance teams

Who will benefit?

This course is for team members and/or leaders who are seeking to improve the effectiveness of the teams they work in, create, or manage and it will benefit any organization seeking to develop high performance teams. Teams often lose their way even with well-intentioned and highly skilled members. Sorting out team challenges is difficult and complicated, and the training of members and leaders in the theories and best practice of team building creates awareness, communication bridges, and provides tools for overcoming the inevitable conflicts that arise. This course is especially helpful for those charged with team leadership or hands-on coordination. It is also quite valuable for team members because the experiential learning, style awareness (using FourSight), and personal strategies for being a better team player are hard to learn “on the job. This course provides a risk free way to learn to be both a better team member and/or leader. The course would also be of value to facilitator and internal corporate trainers who work with or instruct teams.

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