The Building Blocks of a Winning Team

8 – 40 Hours

This course will help participants develop a team approach, establish a process for cross training employees, provide the basic elements of a coaching model, identify ways to promote an ongoing focus for team activities that prevent burn out, establish a simple, effective approach to problem solving, and introduce methods for accomplishing goals.

• Team Effectiveness Survey
  · Measuring the Team Process
• What’s So Important about Teams?
  · Why Do Some Teams Thrive and Others Don't
  · Why Do You Need Teams in Your Organization?
  · What Is Expected of Team Members?
  · What Are the Advantages of Teams
• The Stages of Team Building
  · Forming
  · Storming
  · Norming
  · Performing
• The Building Blocks
  · Creating the Foundation. . . . .the Focus
  · The Implementation Process
• Coaching the Process
  · Explore the Process of Keeping Teams Moving
  · What’s the Team Leader’s Responsibility
• Strategies for Team Resistance
  · Why People Resist Teams
  · Developing a Plan to Pull Members to the Team
• Facilitation Skills
  · Responsibilities
  · Roles of the Facilitator
  · Encouraging Involvement
  · Meeting the Deadline
  · Interpreting Body Language
• Meeting Skills
  · Why Meetings Are Important
  · Barriers to Meeting Success
  · Roles of the Facilitator, Recorder and Member
  · Understanding the Expectations
  · Planning the Meeting
  · Developing the Agenda
  · Solving Problems
  · Obtaining Interaction
• Wrap-up
  · Open Discussion
  · Developing a Personal Action Plan for Follow up