Course Duration, Method: 1 day (8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.), Instructor-Led Training
Course Overview:
Teams have become a principle building block of successful organizations. This one-day workshop is a basic course for team leaders and team members, designed to focus on the characteristics of an effective team player and the elements of an effective team. You will leave the workshop with plans for your personal development as a team player and ideas for developing your back-home team.
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Course Objective:
This one-day workshop will help participants:
- Identify the different kinds of teams.
- How to develop team norms.
- Identify the Gradients of Agreement.
- How to identify their team player style.
- Become a better team player.
- Build team trust.
- Use two models of team development.
Course Content:
Defining Teams
To get started, participants will define what a team is and what different kinds of teams there are. Participants will also demonstrate synergy through a simple exercise.
Establishing Team Norms
This session will look at some of the benefits and pitfalls of teams. We will also discuss establishing team norms: ground rules that a team can use to help them work together.
Working as a Team
During this session, participants will look at a tool called the Gradients of Agreement. They will discuss how it can help them interact with their teammates.
Glenn Parker Team Survey
During this session, participants will complete a survey constructed by Glenn Parker, a business consultant who has done a great deal of research on teams. This survey will help participants identify their team player style. Participants will then work in small groups to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their style.
Building Team Trust
Trust is one of those mainstay virtues. It is the bond that allows any kind of significant relationship to exist between people. In small groups, participants will discuss some basic ways to establish and build trust on their team.
The Stages of Team Development
Every group of people, whether they are a team or just a group working together, grows and evolves. We will spend this session looking at Tuckman and Jensen’s four stages of team development: forming, storming, norming, and performing.
Towers
Another way of looking at team development is the TORI model. Participants will experience this model through a fun exercise.
Communication
If a team is going to succeed, they must be able to communicate well with each other. This session will cover some basic principles of communication.
Becoming a Good Team Player
There are some skills that participants can develop to become better team players. In this session, we will discuss some Really Useful Attitudes and some Really Useless Attitudes.
Workshop Wrap-Up
At the end of the day, learners will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan.
