In today's business world, there is hardly a job that does not require collaboration within or across teams. Team-members and team-leaders at all levels will benefit from this course on collaboration.
Good teamwork can turn independent, un-empowered, I-do-as-I'm-told workers into engaged stakeholders who can generate new ideas and think up ways of reducing cost while increasing quality and productivity. Teamwork requires the skills to effectively plan and work together, manage differences, and resolve conflicts to jointly achieve successful outcomes.
In Team Play training course, you will learn on how teams come together and about the roles that make individuals productive as team-members without diluting their identity. You will explore how individuals work, decide, and communicate and how they can rise above their differing work styles, biases, and expectations to achieve trust and harmony as a team. This will help bring out the best in your natural teaming abilities, allowing you to team more effectively together with others whose worldview and modus operandi are different.
Upon completion of Team Play workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Overcome the three major barriers that block team progress: setting goals and clarifying expectations, interpersonal relationships, and authority/responsibility
- Identify the individual strengths and differences and develop a plan to bring them together to create a greater good
- Follow the eight-step process for planning, decision-making, and creating team synergy
- Use tools to become an effective team leader, facilitator, and team - member and understand the differences between the three roles
- Effectively deal with difficult team-members
- Improve team communications
- Make the team meetings efficient and effective
- Avoid group-think
- Capitalize on the team strengths and value the differences
- Develop trust and understanding across the team