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Dates
Dec 17, 2008 - Dec 18, 2008
Feb 03, 2009 - Feb 04, 2009
Jun 04, 2009 - Jun 05, 2009
Oct 15, 2009 - Oct 16, 2009
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| Cost (2008): |
$1,795.00 |
| Cost (2009): |
$1,795.00 |
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The ability of high performance teams to function at peak levels is critical to an organization’s success. Thriving organizations in rapidly changing domestic and global markets rely on:
- Virtual teams
- Project teams
- Product development teams
- Autonomous work teams
Attend Caltech IRC’s Developing and Sustaining High Performance Team's course to improve your team development and team leadership skills.
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Benefits
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Contents
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Who Should Attend
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Instructor
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Hours & Credits
- Build the capability and contribution of team members
- Lead effective virtual teams
- Assess team progress and results
- Develop a collaborative team culture and reduce conflict
- Recognize and deploy the strengths of team members
- Provide leadership to 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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Team Leadership in Today’s Reality
- Dealing with change as a leadership constant
- Managing and leading as complementary actions
- Teams as a major force for change in organizations
- The unique contribution of teams to the organization’s performance
Building a High Performance Team
- Four critical dimensions of a team
- Developing the characteristics of high performance teams
- Assessing team development
How to Overcome Obstacles to Team Performance
- Facilitate team development
- Identify and assign major roles
- Establish specific team norms and expectations
- Exchange team member feedback
- Foster a collaborative team climate
- Exercise leadership and communication skills in pursuit of team goals
- Assess team progress and results
How to Understand Motivation and Behavior in Teams
- Recognize and deploy individual motivation and strengths
- Acknowledge and validate team member strengths
- Harness the power of expectations and feedback
Enhancing Problem Solving and Decision Making for High Performing Teams
- Overcoming principal barriers to effective problem solving and decision making
- Using cognitive diversity, independence, and de-centralization in team development for achieving effective, collective decision making
- Overcoming groupthink and passivity
- Developing a learning mindset
Providing Effective Team Leadership
- Facilitative leadership practices
- Anticipative leadership
- Key steps for leading successful change
- Leadership as a dynamic interpersonal process
- The role of values and perception
- Building support for action
- Lessons from experience
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| Senior managers, project managers, and technical professionals wanting to improve their personal influence and effectiveness. |
Michael Sheean
Dec 17, 2008 - Dec 18, 2008
Feb 03, 2009 - Feb 04, 2009
Jun 04, 2009 - Jun 05, 2009
Oct 15, 2009 - Oct 16, 2009
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Michael Sheean
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Michael D. Sheean specializes in assessing organizational needs and helping to facilitate solutions to pressing organizational issues. He works with a variety of technical and service organizations focusing on leadership, team development, communication, and change. His clients have included ARCO, AT&T, Brooktree, Canadian Pacific, Computer Sciences Corporation, Northrop Grumman, Rockwell International, Southern California Edison, Tektronix, Terminal Data, Toyota Motor Sales, Tronomed, and Unocal.
Mr. Sheean helps clients initiate and develop management teams, project teams, and innovative problem solving teams as well as build a supportive climate for teams and teamwork. He assists management in developing the strengths and commitment of team members and in moving from autocratic to facilitative leadership practices. Mr. Sheean teaches the Caltech Industrial Relations Center course, Developing and Sustaining a High-Performance Team, which includes help for overcoming the challenges of virtual teams.
Mr. Sheean was a faculty member of the School of Business Administration and Economics, California State University, Northridge. He holds an MBA from the University of Washington.
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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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CPE :
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16 |
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| Download Course Brochure (PDF) |
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The California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Center is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the |
National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Web site: www.nasba.org.
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Caltech Industrial Relations Center is a recognized provider registered with the PMI Registered Educational Provider Program (PMI® R.E.P.).
PMI and the PMI Registered Education Provider logo are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. |
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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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