High performance teams are essential for organizations to respond to the competitive pressures in changing domestic and global markets. High performance teams include:
Virtual teams
Project teams
Product development teams
Autonomous work teams
Caltech IRC’s Developing and Sustaining High Performance Team's course provides your organization with the toolkit needed to strengthen team development and team leadership skills.
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Who Should Attend
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Bring Developing and Sustaining a High Performance Team to Your Company toincrease the Successfulness of Your Organization's Leaders and Teams to:
Lead effective virtual teams
Build team member capabilities and contributions
Develop a collaborative team culture and reduce conflict
Recognize and deploy team member strengths
Anticipate issues and facilitate team member interaction
Deal with the special challenges of virtual teams, project teams, and self-directed teams
Enhance team problem solving and decision making in high performance teams
The Role of Teams for Leading Change
Managing and leading as complementary systems of action
The unique contributions of teams
Teams as a major force for leadership in organizations
Building High Performance Teams
Recognize the four dimensions of a team
Pursue the characteristics of high performance teams
Overcoming Obstacles to Team Performance
Facilitate team development
Establish explicit team norms and expectations
Foster a collaborative team climate
Exercise leadership skills in pursuit of team goals
Encourage open and candid communication
Achieving the Full Potential of Virtual Teams
The special challenges of virtual teams
Gaining cooperation quickly
Facilitative leadership practices
Strategies for developing trust in virtual teams
Recognizing the critical role of leadership
Understanding Motivation and Behavior in Teams
Recognize the significance of the motivational value system
Deploy the strengths, as well as the knowledge and skills, of team members
Acknowledge and validate team member contributions
Harness the power of ‘feedforward’ as a developmental process
Enhancing Team Problem Solving and Decision Making
Recognize the key elements of effective problem solving and decision making
Overcome the principal barriers to problem solving and decision making
Use cognitive diversity, independence, and decentralization for collective decisions
Overcome groupthink and passivity
Develop a learning mindset
Providing Effective Team Leadership
Becoming a learning leader
Anticipative leadership
Key steps for leading successful change
Recognize leadership as a dynamic interpersonal process
Lessons from experience with teams
Bring Developing and Sustaining a High Performance Team into your organization for senior managers, project managers, and technical professionals to improve personal influence and team effectiveness. Use this course to create high-performaing teams across your company.
Schedule
Day 1 - 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Day 2 - 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Comments from Past Participants
"I will be applying several aspects of the course to my work. The instructor's informal style was conducive for learning and participating. The case studies and examples provided were very helpful."
Thomas K. Morgan, Jr. Project Manager, R&D Berlex Biosciences "The team diagnostics and the tools to introduce team members to one another are very helpful. The instructor's expertise and class interaction are great."
Galen P. Carver, M.S., P.E. Director, Atlanta Human Resources Center U.S. Department of Health & Human Services