Leadership Institute
Team Leadership
Recommended Solution for: Team Leadership
The effective implementation of teams can provide
a powerful competitive advantage. Organizations worldwide use teams as a business strategy to
increase quality and customer service, decrease
costs, and improve productivity. These organizations
are also reporting improved morale as employees realize opportunities to take part in decision making, learn new job skills, and take on new responsibilities. Leaders
are key to the implementation of high performing teams and must be able to:
- Launch a new team: setting goals, accountability, boundaries, and operating guidelines.
- Encourage open communication, strengthen
trust, and contribute to their teams’ and organizations’ success.
- Guide others to think for themselves when taking
on a new challenge or solving problems.
- Support and encourage teams’ efforts to work
with internal and external partners to achieve shared goals.
- Understand their roles and use them to assess
and improve team effectiveness.
- Create and maintain a high trust environment.
- Motivate team members to achieve higher levels
of performance.
Course Recommendations
These courses build the skills that leaders need to move your organization to a team-based, high-performance structure.
* Essentials of Leadership is the prerequisite course for most leadership courses.
- Launching a Successful Team -- Leaders learn process and tools for setting up a team charter, including goals, ground rules, and other important elements of a successful team.
- Building an Environment of Trust -- Teaches leaders to recognize
behaviors that lead to distrust and to understand the human impact of a
non-trusting environment.
- Making Meetings Work -- Leaders learn how to effectively plan, facilitate, and follow-up on meetings (including virtual meetings) to ensure that there is a payoff for the time invested.
- Reaching Agreement -- Teaches the dynamics of reaching agreement in groups.
- Leading High Performance Teams -- Provides team leaders with the tools and skills to diagnose, coach, and reinforce to support their team’s growth.
- Building Winning Partnerships -- Leaders learn how to establish true partnerships to meet customer needs by developing strategies for gaining people’s commitment to working together.
Supplemental Courses and Development Tools
- Adaptive Leadership
- Influential Leadership (No prerequisite course required)
- Coaching For Improvement
- Coaching for Success
- Delegating for Results
- OPAL® (Online Performance and Learning)—Provides Internet reinforcement and just-in-time coaching.
Rationale
Leaders must be models of empowerment, trust, and collaboration. They need to motivate and guide team members to self-sufficiency and self-leadership while also creating and maintaining alliances with key internal and external partners. Because
of the vast number of meetings required in team environments—to establish charters, reach consensus, examine improvement opportunities, etc.—leaders must be skilled in knowing when to have meetings, whom to involve, and how to conduct the meetings in the most efficient, effective manner.