Much like building a structure, building a team can be perilous and pitfall-prone. Successful team building requires a firm foundation of trust, consensus and sharing.
This class teaches the important skills of building cohesiveness among coworkers and orienting a team’s efforts toward a common goal. Come away with valuable skills for improving teams– both those you are a part of and those that you lead.
Team Building as a Central Management Technique
Teams do not build themselves. Managers need specific skills to get everyone working together and trusting each other. This class will help managers learn how to:
Build rapport and resolve conflict
Understand team dynamics and respective roles
Manage competition and cooperation with teams
Create a cohesive identity with total buy-in
Team Building Training Topics Covered
Building team identity – the importance of team identify and how to build cohesiveness through it
The importance of teams – understanding the benefits of team vs individual performance; evaluating how team involvement can increase quality of performance over solo projects
Team dynamics – understanding the different roles that develop in teams, how people work together, how decisions and consensuses are made, competition and behaviors
Team trust – the importance of trust among team members and how to build it within a team; how to rebuild it after it has been breached
Team consensus and decision making – The importance of team consensus and how to get it as well as the different decision options within groups and how to identify and deploy each
Sharing feedback – how to give good feedback in a team and ensure you are actively involved in team feedback
Resolving team conflict –Identifying constructive and destructive conflict
How to resolve conflict within a team and the various conflict management styles.
