Team Building
Course Description
- Need for teams Group vs. team
- Resistance to team building
- Ground rules for teams
- Five key components of self-managed teams
- Teams as a total quality management tool
- Characteristics of effective and ineffective teams
- Strategies to resolve team conflict
- Team roles and responsibilities
- Team decision making
- Building team spirit
- Difficult team members
- Manager’s role in successful team building
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the need for teams in the workplace.
- Explore the early implementation phase for team building.
- Describe the four stages of growth that teams go through.
- List the common themes that are dominant in teams.
- Explore the seven teamwork practices.
- Discuss the multiple changes in the change process.
- Describe the role of a change agent.
- Explore the difference between groups and teams.
- List behaviors that influence team effectiveness.
- Explore resistance to team building.
- List the potential team problems.
- Discuss the ground rules for teams.
- Describe the empowerment concept for team members.
- Define empowerment myths in team building.
- Discuss the five key components for self-managed teams.
- Identify success ingredients that will facilitate self-managed teams.
- Explore utilizing self-managed teams as a total quality management tool.
- Discuss the characteristics of effective and ineffective teams.
- Identify five myths related to conflict.
- List the 10 tips for manager’s to resolve conflict
- Discuss team roles and responsibilities.
- Discuss how to make decisions with in the team.
- Explore 5 myths of creativity.
- Examine guidelines to help build team spirit.
- Discuss strategies in dealing with difficult team members.
- Identify difficult team members.
- List the requirements for success in team building.
- Discuss the manager’s role in building collaborative teams.
- Identify strategies to reduce stress in team building.