Building and leading high performance teams
 

Training goals

·         Create interpersonal bonding with individuals and team

·         Skills of dialogue and learning to avoid blocks to dialogue

·         Create an atmosphere of trust for effective working together

·         Create an environment which stimulates team working, cooperation and collaboration

·         Create an environment which stimulates commitment to common goals

·         Learning to renew and maintain interpersonal bonding when disrupted over differences

·         Increase ability to analyse and understand conflict

·         A void defensiveness in conflict situations

·         Effectiveness in confronting, being assertive, and giving feedback

·         Develop into a high performing team

Course outline

1.      Understanding What Motivates People - Desire to belong

·         To experience what we do as important

·         To build self-esteem through productive goals

2.      Attachment-Separation Life Cycle

·         Creating attachment to people, goals, organizations, etc.

·         Separating from attachments with the corresponding consequences

·         Bonding as the way to hold relationships to grow and develop

·         Process of letting go what is over

·         Re-bonding to a new system of attachments

3.      Role or Secure Bases in Success - Bonding to people

·         Bonding to goals

·         Freedom to explore

·         Building self-esteem

4.      Communication

·         Ta1king - dialogue - negotiation sequence

·         Knowing the difference between self and other

·         Understanding the self: body - emotion - mind - spirit

5.      Handling Emotions

·         Emotional intelligence

·         Stages of Emotion

·         Patterns of Emotion

·         Emotions that stop change

6.      Leadership

·         Understand the Styles of leadership

·         Assessment of leadership skills

·         Role of leadership in successful team work

7.      High Performance Team Work

·         What makes a high performance team

·         Characteristics of a high performance team

·         Barriers to high performance team work

·         Focus on clear and specific results

8.      Causes or Conflict

·         Differences in goals and interests Differences in values

·         Differences in perception of the problem

·         Power-status-rivalry

·         Insecurity -lack of feeling of competence

·         Resistance to change

·         Role confusion - discrepancy between what you and I think we should do

·         Search for ego identity

·         Personal needs

·         Poor or lack of communication

9.      Negotiation and Mediation

·         Skills of influence and persuasion through negotiation

·         Differentiating between negotiation and mediation

·         Stages of negotiation

·         Process of mediation

·         Strategies for intervening in difficult situations

10.  Making Personal and Professional Decisions for Change

·         Expanding options and creating vision

·         Utilizing mentors and other secure bases

·         Overcoming fear of change

·         Barriers to making decisions

·         Styles of decision making

11.  Action Planning

·         Individual and team action plans

Course organization

Above micro schedule represents a full team building program which normally is performed in 4 to 5 days.