Course Highlights
This foundational team-building course will:
- Outline the characteristics of a team.
- Review several popular frameworks.
- Suggest best practices for overcoming obstacles many teams face.
- Offer ideas and tactics for improving team communication.
Course Overview
This two-hour course for teams introduces the essential elements groups need to work successfully with each other. The program references several well-known frameworks and references real-world examples to illustrate learning points. In addition to those elements, the course looks at best practices for listening to team members and methods for communicating information in a way that drives toward solutions instead of roadblocks. The program concludes with a survival simulation where participants will identify lessons learned about the team process.
Program Objectives
- At this program’s conclusion, participants should be able to:
- Identify the characteristics of teams versus groups.
- Describe the common challenges teams encounter.
- Discuss Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development, Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and Belbin’s Team Roles.
- Decide if challenges can be addressed proactively or reactively.
- Practice active listening and other listening types.
- Identify listening errors and best practices.
- Choose language that drives teams toward solutions.
- Navigate a series of team challenges.
- Discuss lessons learned during an Amazon Jungle survival simulation.
Workshop Outline
- Coming Together: What Makes and Breaks a Team
- Listening to Build a Stronger Team: Hearing Each Other
- Moving to Solutions: Positive Language Choices
- Dealing with Difficulty: Navigating Tough Situations
- Exploring Best Practices: Building and Maintaining a Team
- Lost in the Amazon Jungle: Exploring Team Dynamics
Armed with this information, by the end of this program participants should have some new ideas for working more effectively with a team.
