Course Overview
Enhancing Team Leadership
Leaders employ strategies that build high-performing teams by creating trust, valuing conflict, and encouraging commitment. With the skills gained in this course, you will be better equipped to achieve organizational goals by leading your team through the uncertainty, fear, and conflict that often compromise a group’s creative, collaborative efforts.
High-performing teams consistently meet their goals, work cohesively as a unit, and are engaged in their work. As a group, a high-performing team strives for excellence through two-way open communication, mutual trust, common goals, shared leadership, clear job roles, and productive feedback.
Participants of this course will be able to describe Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team and implement strategies that build high-performing teams by promoting accountability and celebrating results. You will also be able to describe the key elements of creating and maintaining high-performing workplace teams.
Building Collaborative Relationships
Successful leadership begins with an ability to create and foster collaborative relationships with employees, co-workers, and other leaders in t he organization. While many people may be promoted to leadership roles based on their superior abilities as direct contributors, relational competencies must be cultivated to be strong and effective leaders.
You will develop collaborative relations by practicing collaboration strategies: building rapport; creating inter-team collaboration; and fostering a wider network of relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, and other organizations. This session will include relevant theory combined with interactive group exercises focused on collaboration and discussions designed to reinforce learnings from the practical exercises. The skills you develop in this course will assist you in creating and optimizing collaborative relationships.