How to enhance and sustain high levels of team performance
Overview:
- Is your team consistently achieving at the level you would like?
- Have you ever had the feeling that something is getting in the way of better team performance, but you are unsure exactly what that is?
- Would you like to unlock more of your team’s capability for results?
A significant factor in building high-performing teams is your leadership. Your choices and actions are critical for the success of your team. Building a cohesive and high performing team requires effective team leadership. That is, knowing when and how to act to get the best out of your team.
Who should attend:
This two-day workshop is for new and mid-level leaders and managers who want to learn how to:
- deliver team results that are far greater than the sum of individual team member efforts
- assess their team and understand exactly where to act to improve performance
- apply simple approaches and tools that facilitate performance improvement more easily
- establish a learning and improvement culture in their team
- successfully navigate tricky team performance issues
- apply simple and practical team-building approaches that they can use on a week-by-week basis to grow team performance.
Learning objectives:
Learn how to:
- Understand the key drivers of team performance and the nature of the leaders’ role in fostering that success.
- Develop a clear strategy for improving the performance of your team or taking them to the next level.
- Assess the current performance levels of your team, the underlying performance drivers and the opportunities for accelerated development.
- Build a strong working relationship with your team that fosters trust and commitment to team success.
- Make the most of the individual and collective capacity present in your team.
- Grow a self-sustaining momentum for team success that will continue beyond your presence as a leader.
- Turn around team performance issues quickly so that the team gets back on the high performance track.
Course outline:
- Team leadership and team performance: The team leaders’ critical role in team performance and what that means for your focus, choices and action
- Team effectiveness 101: The three most important indicators of team effectiveness and how to make an assessment of the effectiveness of your team
- Team coaching 101: Understanding your role helping your team members to make the most of their collective talents and resources for achieving team goals
- Inspiring commitment: Inspiring team members to give their best and be enthusiastic about making a contribution to team success
- Sparking collective genius: Encouraging exploration and imagination in order to find a better or smarter approaches for the challenges that the team faces
- The art of productive team working: Sparking the collaboration mind set and helping team members understand how to collaborate successfully.
- Building a momentum for success: Creating a team improvement culture, building a positive team spirit and helping the team to understand how to make the most of their collective abilities
- Conscious team building: How to create and implement team building activities that allow you to work with team issues and challenges in a manner that directly improves team effectiveness.
- Working with team problems: How to clearly identify the nature of a performance problem (i.e. problem behaviours, conflict, under-performance, a slump, change fatigue etc.) and develop the right approach for directly addressing it.
- Putting it into practice: How to assess your team as a whole and make and make good judgments as to exactly where you should take action for the ongoing success of the team.
What will you get from the programme?
- A clear understanding of the requirements for successful team leadership
- Powerful diagnostic tools to understand exactly where your team is and the best options for team improvement
- A strong insight into the best approach for working more effectively with the invisible drivers of team performance
- The ability to work more easily with tricky team performance problems
- Greater confidence in your ability to lead you r team effectively and successfully into the future
Course format:
You will learn through stories, mini-lectures, self-reflection, case studies, simulations and group discussion and through applying simple tools and templates to understand and assess your world.
Workshop leader testimonials
Presenter:
Lawrence Green
Further details:
If you would like more information about this programme, please contact us on:
Ph: 64 4 463 6556 Email: profdev@vuw.ac.nz
Customised workshops:
Victoria Professional and Executive Development are able to customise many of our workshops to meet specific individual or organisational requirements. Please contact us for further information.
