Leading Work Teams: Improving team motivation, commitment and productivity by improving the leadership qualities of your team leaders.

When technology changes jobs overnight, business is conducted round the clock, competition is global and people are subject to down-sizing and restructuring, organizations must have effective leaders who can harness the power of their teams and motivate them to success.

This course introduces participants to a facilitative style of management effective in today’s working environment. It helps them assess their leadership qualities, strengths and weaknesses, and understand how teams work, interact and grow so they can manage their team from co-existence to collaboration, from inception to high performance.

Topics

Facilitation: A Basis for Leadership

• Adopting a Facilitative Leadership Style
• What it takes to be a Facilitative Leader

Facilitating Team Work

• Improving Group Dynamics
• Developing Team Trust
• Setting the Guidelines for Performance
• Establishing Clear Purpose and Goals
• Facilitating the Team's Development

Managers will:

• Understand how a facilitative style helps them fulfil their responsibilities to both team and task, and be able to identify when to use it.
• Know what skills and qualities are necessary to practice facilitative management successfully.
• Understand how group dynamics and culture affect team relationships, and be able to identify a team’s state of cohesiveness.
• Appreciate the importance of trust in creating a problem-solving atmosphere and understand the principles of building team trust.
• Understand how team ground rules affect team productivity and appreciate their role in facilitating boundary development and administration.
• Know how team goals affect motivation and productivity, and understand their role in working with the team to set SMART goals.
• Be able to describe how a team moves from forming to performing and understand their role in facilitating the transition as smoothly as possible.