BUILDING SKILLS FOR WORKING IN TEAMS: IGNITING PASSION & ACTIVATING POTENTIAL IN TEAMS

BUILDING SKILLS FOR WORKING IN TEAMS: IGNITING PASSION & ACTIVATING POTENTIAL IN TEAMS

Course Code: MN09

Course Objective

• Identify individual work styles differences and how to use them to develop your team
• Apply the modern principles of time and activity management and manage self and team by them
• Draw-up a comprehensive Team Purpose Analysis and objective set for the team’s foundation
• Use creative techniques to push the boundaries of team problem-solving and decision-making
• Apply modern motivation techniques to get the best out of team members
• Use communication techniques that help minimize “noise in the team system”
• Influence team members to embrace change and use it as a powerful, positive force

Target Audience

This course will mainly benefit to purchasing managers, senior buyers, project managers, civil engineers, construction managers, contractors, sub-contractors, site engineers, senior management, and government agencies, architects, construction professionals, and anyone responsible for purchasing at a senior level who seeks to enhance their skills further.

Course Outline

DAY 1

Starting From Within – You, The Team Leader

• Know yourself and your role as a team leader – you strengths and style preferences
• Set personal goals to guide your outputs
• Priorities your time and tasks effectively and train your team to do the same
• The power of role modelling and “Managing by Walking Around”
• Examine and challenge the impact of your belief system and limiting beliefs

Building Team Foundations

• Learn from what high performing teams do
• Establish a stretching team purpose – developing a Team Purpose Analysis – TPA
• Map out stakeholders and their needs

DAY 2

Establishing Team Environment, Membership and Roles

• Build an energetic team environment
• Establish team roles – what’s missing in your team, what’s duplicated?
• Apply team development stages knowledge to inform your leadership interventions
• Identify and share individual’s social and work style preferences

DAY 3

Building Outstanding Team Productivity, Progress and Learning

• Deploy the lessons of motivational theory in managing the team
• Influence and persuade stakeholders and partners
• Help the team cope with change and be resilient
• Develop a systems thinking perspective for continuous team improvement
• Conduct team “After Action” reviews and follow up actions and achievements
• Apply methods to celebrate team progress and successes

DAY 4

Building Frictionless Team Communications

• Improve and enhance individual and team communication skills – listening, questioning, clarifying and summarizing skills
• Identify and develop strategies to overcome barriers to communications
• Use Appreciative Inquiry to develop positive approaches to team issues
• Give corrective and positive feedback that motivates
• Design and conduct productive team meetings
• Deploy the RACI approach to work allocation and reporting

DAY 5

Dealing with Team Conflicts and Using Them to Improve Team Performance

• Identify and resolve common team problems
• Using the Thomas-Kilmann conflict mode instrument
• Identify and manage dysfunctional, counter-productive team behaviour

Creativity for Team Problem Solving and Learning

• Deploy methods to overcome mental blocks
• Obtain the benefits of brainstorming
• Make use of a range of creative and decision-making tools