Leading High-Impact Teams: Energizing People for Performance On-the-job benefits

The course participants will gain the following significant benefits:

• Improved management skills
• Understanding of coaching
• Development of teamwork, motivation and loyalty to the leader of the team
• Higher productivity along with work efficiency

Target Audience

The course is recommended for:

• First-line and Project Managers

Pre-Requisites

• There is no prerequisite for this course.

Course Objectives

• Understanding the basics of a high-performing team
• How power should change to “influence” in effective teams
• Utilizing high performing teams to be centers for creativity and innovation
• The role of a leader in a high performing team
• Leading diverse teams (thought and culture)
• Understanding the impact of emotions
• Leading High-Impact Teams

Modules

• Team Performance
  • Communication styles
  • Team performance analysis
  • Types of high performing teams and threats to effectiveness
  • How to work across distance

• Power and Influence
  • Understanding networks of influence and authority
  • Building and using organizational capital
• Creating and Innovating
  • Effective brainstorming
  • 2 types of thinking: convergent and divergent
  • Selling creative ideas to the organization (getting support)
• Leading High-Impact Teams
  • Environment and culture (good vs bad conflict)
  • Challenges in teamwork – learning from each other
  • Turning I into WE – Find the facts and back the plan
  • Valuing diversity (wanting it too!)
• Emotional Intelligence and Coaching
  • EQ vs. IQ
  • Personal plan to increase EQ
  • Communicating the importance of emotions