This highly practical course helps you to understand the nature of team working. It explores techniques that enable individuals and teams to address the communication and process issues that are barriers to high performance. It examines the different roles within a team and how to harness the different strengths and styles to improve team performance.

By understanding different work preferences and communication styles a team will learn to value diversity and make the most of its strengths and design action plans to move forward.

BENEFITS
After this one-day workshop you will be able to:

			identify the different roles within a successful team
			build and develop an effective team that maximises the strengths of the team members

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
You can expect to:

			define the conditions for an effective team
			identify the different roles within a team
			examine how teams evolve and develop
			look at high performance teams
			examine your own role within a team

COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction

			What is a team?
			Characteristics of groups and teams
			Types of teams

Team roles

			Identifying the roles in a team
			Looking at different models of the ideal team
			Reflecting on your own role and preferred style within a team
			Changing your roles

Building a team

			Creating clear objectives for your team
			Choosing an appropriate leader or leadership style
			Creating a supportive environment
			Giving effective feedback

Conditions for effective team work

			Creating clear objectives for your team
			Choosing an appropriate leader or leadership style
			Creating a supportive environment
			Effective feedback

High performing teams

			The factors that lead to high performance within teams
			Choosing an appropriate leader or leadership style
			Creating the correct environment for team members
			Managing a team effectively

WHO THE COURSE IS FOR
This course is for anyone who has to lead a team at work and wants to improve their team working skills in order to better achieve business objectives.