Building Skills for Working in Teams: Igniting Passion & Activating Potential in Teams
Course Code:
MN09
Course Objective
- Identify individual work styles differences and how to use them to develop your team
- Apply the modern principles of time and activity management and manage self and team by them
- Draw-up a comprehensive Team Purpose Analysis and objective set for the team’s foundation
- Use creative techniques to push the boundaries of team problem-solving and decision-making
- Apply modern motivation techniques to get the best out of team members
- Use communication techniques that help minimize “noise in the team system”
- Influence team members to embrace change and use it as a powerful, positive force
Target Audience
This course will mainly benefit to purchasing managers, senior buyers, project managers, civil engineers, construction managers, contractors, sub-contractors, site engineers, senior management, and government agencies, architects, construction professionals, and anyone responsible for purchasing at a senior level who seeks to enhance their skills further.
Course Outline
DAY 1
Starting From Within – You, The Team Leader
- Know yourself and your role as a team leader – you strengths and style preferences
- Set personal goals to guide your outputs
- Priorities your time and tasks effectively and train your team to do the same
- The power of role modelling and “Managing by Walking Around”
- Examine and challenge the impact of your belief system and limiting beliefs
Building Team Foundations
- Learn from what high performing teams do
- Establish a stretching team purpose – developing a Team Purpose Analysis – TPA
- Map out stakeholders and their needs
DAY 2
Establishing Team Environment, Membership and Roles
- Build an energetic team environment
- Establish team roles – what’s missing in your team, what’s duplicated?
- Apply team development stages knowledge to inform your leadership interventions
- Identify and share individual’s social and work style preferences
DAY 3
Building Outstanding Team Productivity, Progress and Learning
- Deploy the lessons of motivational theory in managing the team
- Influence and persuade stakeholders and partners
- Help the team cope with change and be resilient
- Develop a systems thinking perspective for continuous team improvement
- Conduct team “After Action” reviews and follow up actions and achievements
- Apply methods to celebrate team progress and successes
DAY 4
Building Frictionless Team Communications
- Improve and enhance individual and team communication skills – listening, questioning, clarifying and summarizing skills
- Identify and develop strategies to overcome barriers to communications
- Use Appreciative Inquiry to develop positive approaches to team issues
- Give corrective and positive feedback that motivates
- Design and conduct productive team meetings
- Deploy the RACI approach to work allocation and reporting
DAY 5
Dealing with Team Conflicts and Using Them to Improve Team Performance
- Identify and resolve common team problems
- Using the Thomas-Kilmann conflict mode instrument
- Identify and manage dysfunctional, counter-productive team behaviour
Creativity for Team Problem Solving and Learning
- Deploy methods to overcome mental blocks
- Obtain the benefits of brainstorming
- Make use of a range of creative and decision-making tools
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