A team can be an oasis of excitement, focused energy, and peak performance, or it can feel like an endless desert. What makes the difference?
Almost anyone can lead a team effectively. What you need is a clear understanding of how teams work; a commitment to coordinating the details; empathy, patience and persistence; and a few techniques for getting beyond the predicable hurdles. But to build a high-performance team is much more demanding.
A high performance team is strong on problem solving, its decisions are of high quality, it knows how to deal with conflict constructively and creatively, and enjoys high levels of trust, openness and enthusiasm for working together.
To get there leaders need to understand team dynamics and team roles, learn to respond to the challenges different types of teams have, and know how to improve team communication and mutual understanding significantly.
Our training offers a roadmap for managers who desire to make their teams fully tap their potential and guide them towards greater cohesion, result-orientation and sense of ownership.
Course Objectives
Participants with this training will learn about:
- Team dynamics and the critical factors influencing team development
- The key elements of effective teamwork
- Ways to overcome team challenges
- Ways to assess team performance and
- Strategies for increasing team performance.
Furthermore they will learn about:
- different types of teams and how make them work more efficiently
- team roles and team communication
- personal style and team behaviour.
Methodology
Two team assessments
Two individual assessments
Three scenario trainings and one case study
One role play
Lecture
Group discussion
For online payments please indicate SHA20145-03-24
9.10 – 9.15 Course Overview
9.15 – 10.15 Effective Team Leadership
- Basic Definitions
- Adair’s Concept of Team Leadership
- Qualities of a Team Leader
- Self-Assessment
- Case Study
- Feedback Exercise (Role Play)
10.30 - 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.00 Understanding Team Dynamics
- The Four Stages of Team Development
- Team Development Matrix
- Team Assessment #1
- Debriefing and Discussion
- Goal Clarity
- Team Charter
- Developing an Action Plan for Your Team (1)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch Break
13.00 – 14.00 Team Communication and Team Roles
- The Belbin Team Roles
- Scenario Training
- Team Roles and Team Communication
- Developing an Action Plan for Your Team (2)
14.00 - 14.15 Coffee Break
14.15 – 15.15 Types of Teams and their Challenges
- The Five Conflict Handling Modes
- Self-Assessment: Preferred Conflict Management Style
- Types of Teams: Strengths and Weaknesses
- Developing an Action Plan for Your Team (3)
15.15 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.45 Creating a High-Performance Team
- Nine Elements of Effective Teamwork
- Team Assessment #2
- Debriefing and Discussion
- Strategies for Building a High-Performance Team
- Scenario Training
- Characteristics of a High-Performance Team
- Developing an Action Plan for Your Team (3)
16.45 – 17.00 Summary, Q&A, Feedback, Adjourn
Our Trainer
Dr. Laurenz Awater, General Manager and corporate trainer. Laurenz is an organizational development and intercultural expert whose China experience dates back to 1985 when he was foreign student at Beijing University. Laurenz is fluent in Chinese and works as management trainer and consultant. His Ph.D. thesis on ‘China’s Political Economic History from 1949 to 1997’ is a standard reference book at German universities and received mentioning on ‘Wikipedia’ and on books on G8 summit policy, China’s WTO-integration and EU-Foreign Policy. When working in German industry Laurenz was involved in large infrastructure and construction projects in China. In 2003 he founded the Shanghai INNOVA Management Institute, a training company known for organizing high-level executive workshops for expat managers and for its leadership and management training programs. Since then the Shanghai INNOVA Management Institute has built up a client base of more than 200 MNCs, mainly larger and mid-sized concerns from Western Europe.