Team Building: Developing High Performance Teams

Team Building: Developing High Performance Teams – Training course in Dubai & Boston

Success as a manager is heavily influenced by how well your team operates and what kind of results they achieve. Is your team able to solve problems? Can they resolve conflict? Are they enthusiastic and motivated to do their best? Do they work well together? This three-day workshop is designed for participants who want to develop their team leadership skills and unleash the talent of their individual team members.

• Identify different types of teams.
• Build teamwork by recognizing and tapping into the 12 characteristics of an effective team.
• Promote trust and rapport by exploring your team player style and how it impacts group dynamics.
• Recognize the key elements that move a team from involvement to empowerment and how to give these elements to your team.
• Develop strategies for dealing with team conflict and common problems.
• Understand how action planning and analysis tools can help your team perform better.

• Organizations today, types of teams, team norms
• The TORI team building model
• Beckhart’s team activities
• Stages of team development and shaping factors
• Parker’s 12 characteristics of great teams
• Team player types
• The trust/relationship model
• Creative, lateral, and vertical thinking
• Interventions for team leaders
• Resolving conflict and solving problems
• SWOT analysis and developing team action plans

This three-day workshop will help you teach participants how to:

• Identify different types of teams.
• Build teamwork by recognizing and tapping into the twelve characteristics of an effective team.
• Promote trust and rapport by exploring your team player style and how it impacts group dynamics.
• Recognize the key elements that move a team from involvement to empowerment and how to give these elements to your team.
• Develop strategies for dealing with team conflict and common problems.
• Understand how action planning and analysis tools can help your team perform better.

New and existing managers, team leads, operations managers, project managers, program managers, technical managers, chief officers, department heads, human resource managers, training managers, supervisors, and anyone aspiring to move into a leadership or management role.

This Team Building Workshop employs a combination of lectures (via PowerPoint presentations), assessments, simulations, tools, guides, and case studies to help leaders master the principles and skills in each topic area.

Course will be conducted over a period of 3 days, starting from 8:30 AM and ending at 2:30 PM daily, followed by a lunch buffet.  There will be allowances for short refreshment breaks.

     *For in-house courses, timings can be customized by mutual agreement.

Course Overview

You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.

• Types of Teams
• Team Norms
• The TORI Team Building Model
• Beckhart’s Activities
• The Four Stages of Team Development
• Characteristics of Great Teams
• Civilized Disagreements and Consensus
• Open Communication
• Clear Roles and Assignments
• Shared Leadership
• Team Player Types
• The Trust/Relationship Model
• Lateral and Vertical Thinking
• Creative Team Thinking
• Team Shaping Factors
• Solving Problems
• Interventions for Team Leaders
• Resolving Conflict
• SWOT Analysis
• Developing Team Action Plans
• Workshop Wrap-Up

At the completion of this training program, attendees will each be awarded PMI Endorsed Certificates worth 18 Professional Development Units (PDU’s).