Team Dynamics: Fundamentals of Effective Team Work

Purpose
Team work has become a fundamental aspect of organizational effectiveness. Having employees who are capable of being good team members and team leaders is essential. In addition to have good communication and personal skills, they must have a sound understanding of how teams work.

Team Dynamics: Fundamentals of Effective Team work provides both the knowledge and skill base to ensure people in teams work at their best and bring the best out of each other.

Objectives
  Understand the psychology of people in groups.
  Define the task, relationship and leadership requirements as teams move through the forming, norming, storming, performing and ending stages of a team’s development.
  Understand how the team leader’s or facilitator’s role and base of influence needs to change as a team moves through each developmental stage.
  Explore and assess the interaction roles needed in teams to facilitate the work of the team and build productive relationships between members.
  Identify the interaction roles that block and strain team effectiveness.
  Determine how team members can make constructive use of conflict and differences to promote creativity and cohesiveness.
  Learn how to build a firm foundation of trust between members.
  Productively resolve conflict within the team.
  Determine when teams need to use command, consultation and consensus decision making to stream line the decision processes of teams.
  Build a framework of team effectiveness and explore different ways to assess team effectiveness.

Methodology
Team Dynamics: Fundamentals of Effective Team Work is a high active and interactive learning experience. Participants are engaged in well crafted team learning experiences to enhance their personal and team skills.

Length
One or two days.

Who Should Attend
People who work in teams and people who lead teams — managers, program/project managers, supervisors, team leaders, team facilitators and internal consultants.

Application
Team Dynamics: Fundamentals of Effective Team Work is offered as a stand alone program to improve team work in organizations. It also is used as a key component of our highly applied Jump Start Team Building process designed to help newly formed teams accelerate developing into a mature, highly effective team.
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