High-performing teams don’t just happen — they come alive through strong team leadership and collaborative teamwork. Employers are discovering the impact of sharing best practices build these well-oiled team. Leaders must have an awareness of individual differences, an understanding of group dynamics, and a framework for structured, focused, and productive meetings.
Objectives
• Develop skills to communicate to people with differing personalities;
• Demonstrate the steps for planning and structuring an effective meeting;
• Demonstrate skills for defusing inappropriate and obstructive participant behavior;
• Learn how to build a team environment based on trust and safety;
• Create ground rules for effective functioning;
• Develop clear goals and action plans;
• Demonstrate the skills for facilitating the content, process, and pace of a meeting; and
• Explore tools for building consensus and making decisions within the team
Course: Building Collaborative Teams
Module 1 incorporates the DiSC® behavioral model as the foundation for communication and influence. Offered on-line or in paper version, the assessment provides a jumping off point for understanding behavioral differences and how they impact team functioning. Exercises, video, and group activities are designed to help participants develop a solid understanding and application of the model by the end of the morning. The end of this first module ends with an overview of ineffective and effective teams, and an understanding of the stages of team development.
Module 2 gives an overview of meeting structure, providing hands-on tools for understanding the meeting process, agendas, team roles, and follow-up activities. Participants develop skills in goal setting, building trust, and setting behavioral ground rules.
During Module 3, participants “go live” with a simulation, designed to help bring out potential strengths and weaknesses of team functioning. Since each module builds on the last, group members will see the importance of each tool in successful meetings. Facilitation skills such as listening, questioning, and managing difficult team members are discussed.
In Module 4, team members learn skills for decision-making, problem solving, and prioritization. Then they complete the training with a final Lab experience designed to apply workshop tools and skills.
Audience
Team, department, or grade level chairs, administrators, and anyone wishing to build skills in leading teams will benefit from this workshop. Skills can be used in any team setting, including the classroom. Because of the interactive nature of the training, class size is limited to groups of 25-30.
This course is conducted as a two-day training only.
Downloadable Resources
Template.ppt
Templates
Collaborative_Team_Matrix.pdf
Collaborative Team Matrix