Building & Leading Great Teams

Course Length: 6 hours (1 day)

This specially designed virtual live instructor-led course has been developed to help you navigate your new work-from-home environment. 

This workshop will help you understand how to develop and lead teams to work collaboratively and guide them to the results they can achieve. This workshop is designed for participants who want to develop their team leadership skills and unleash the talent of their team members.

Team building lesson from geese:

“People who share a common direction, share a sense of togetherness and trust each other can get where they are going quicker and easier.”

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

- Identify team social styles and motivators
- Build teamwork skills and collaboration
- Promote trust and rapport by cultivating team building activities
- Enhance your team’s capabilities towards achieving objectives
- Develop strategies for facilitating team dynamics

Target Student:

This course is for leaders and managers who want to develop their team leadership skills and unleash their team members’ talents. If you’d like to build successful and collaborative teams, this is the course for you. Build a high-functioning team that will achieve its goals and work well together.

Course Outline:
Section 1: Building and Leading Teams Overview

Characteristics of great teams
Every team needs a purpose
Stages of team development

Section 2: Collaboration
Setting ground rules and expectations
How to maintain mutual respect
Communicating using emotional intelligence

Section 3:  Brainstorming and More Team Building Activities
Using the six thinking hats
How to work SMART
Bring in the humans

Section 4: The Best Ways to Communicate
Understand social styles
What motivates us
Giving and receiving feedback

Section 5: Facilitate Team Dynamics
Encouraging communication
Dealing with different perspectives