Course Overview

This course pulls together the most current and popular theories and writings on this complex topic and presents an amalgamated view in a highly-interactive engagement using activity and role-play based approach. Participants will understand and gain the skills required to build and participate in high-performance project teams and will possess the insight to proactively affect change within their respective organizations. They will learn how to transform their existing culture into one that promotes high performance. Replete with a case study and exercises this engagement ensures that the participants understand the concept well and retain learning such that they can apply them in real world projects.

 

Who should attend?

• Department heads
• Functional heads
• QA and QC managers / heads
• Program managers
• Project managers
• Team leaders
• Technical leaders

 

Performance Focus

• Optimum team size for effective performance
• Behaviors of high performance teams
• Recognize cultural barriers in achieving high performance
• List the attributes a high performing corporate culture
• Assess your own corporate culture
• Discuss corporate leadership as a factor in building high performance project teams
• List and describe the eight components of the team charter model for building high performance teams.
• Productivity in projects

 

What You Will Learn

• Define a team and describe the optimum team size for effective performance
• Describe characteristics and guiding behaviors of high-performance teams
• Describe the major elements of each development stage in two distinct models
• Recognize cultural barriers in achieving high performance
• List the attributes of a high-performing corporate culture
• Assess your own corporate culture
• Discuss corporate leadership as a factor in building high-performance project teams
• Describe the three A’s of selecting team members
• State three leadership responsibilities
• Describe leadership responsibilities, styles and roles
• List and describe the eight components of the team charter model for building high-performance teams

 

Training Content and Basic Outline of the course

Getting Started

• Introductions
• Course delivery strategy
• Discussion: participant expectations
• Team activity – building a bridge

Foundational Team Concepts

• The nature of teams
  - The definition of a team
  - Types of teams
  - Does the size of the team matter?
• Characteristics of high-performance teams
• Guiding behaviors of high-performance teams
• Team activity – characteristics of high-performance teams
  - Purpose and values
  - Empowerment
  - Relationship and communication
  - Flexibility
  - Optimal performance
  - Recognition and appreciation
  - Morale

Understanding Team Development

• Stages of team development – Model 1
• Stages of team development – Model 2
• Team activity

Designing a High-Performance Culture

• Corporate cultures
  - Cultural characteristics
  - The cost of culture
  - Designing high-performance cultures
  - Assessing your culture
• Corporate leadership
• Leadership tips

Establishing the Attributes of High Performance

• Choosing the right people
• Team effectiveness
• Team leadership
  - Leadership responsibilities
  - Leadership styles
• The Team Charter model
  - Team vision, purpose and values
  - Team norms
  - Team member roles
  - Key responsibility areas and goals
• Communication strategies
• Decision making, authority and accountability
• Resources
• Team activity

Recap and engagement closure