High performance teams are essential for organizations to respond to the competitive pressures in changing domestic and global markets. High performance teams include:
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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Bring Developing and Sustaining a High Performance Team to Your Company to increase 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
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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
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| 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. |
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Day 1 - 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Day 2 - 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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1.4 |
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PDU :
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14 |
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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
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