Leadership Institute

Working as a Team

Learning Format: Classroom, Web-Based

Order No. WD82

For a team to achieve its goals, its members must do more than just carry their own weight. They must involve, support, and share information with their teammates. And they must commit to the success of the entire team, not simply their own success.

Working as a Team clearly teaches employees the personal, interpersonal, and organizational advantages of working together, whether in teams or work groups.

Do You Face Any of These Issues?

  • Do people in your organization sometimes have difficulty putting team goals ahead of personal goals?
  • Do people pull their weight and advance their team’s goals?
  • Do people question the commitment of teammates to the team’s success?

Performance Objectives

Helps associates:

  • Apply the team success factors to improve the performance of the teams they lead or on which they serve.
  • Reduce the time it takes their teams to overcome growing pains.
  • Be aware of and address the challenges their teams faces in the four stages of team development.

Primary Competency Developed

  • Contributing to Team Success

Secondary Competency Developed

  • Building Strategic Working Relationships

Course Overview

  • Simulation: The Drip-n-Pipes (manufacturing) simulation, which demonstrates the dynamics of teamwork, has participants first work individually and then as a team to assemble a plumbing fixture. In the Genius of Bioengineering (service/professional) simulation, participants work with both their own and other teams to solve a problem.
  • Profiling Your Team: Learners discuss their experience with teams, profile the type of teams they serve on, and relate their teams to common team types.
  • Stages of Team Development: A video analogy demonstrates the stages of team development. Learners discuss team challenges at each stage and ways to overcome the challenges.
  • Team Success Factors: Participants learn the six team success factors and view a video that shows how these factors helped a team win a contract over a competitor. They then complete a video case study in which they consult with a team to improve its performance.
  • Rating Your Team and Planning Action: Learners rate their team’s level of success based on the team success factors. They complete a Team Action Planner to improve performance.

Video Segment Summaries

  • A rafting trip illustrates the four stages of team development.
  • Two teams from different organizations compete for the same contract. One team uses the team success factors effectively and, as a result, wins the exclusive contract.

Course Details

  • Target audience: All employees up to mid-level leaders.
  • Course length: 3 hours, 10 minutes, using the Drip-n-Pipes simulation; 3 hours, 40 minutes, using the Genius of Bioengineering simulation; or 2 hours, 10 minutes Fast Track.
  • Facilitator certification: DDI-certified facilitator required.
  • Prerequisites: Interaction Skills for Success or Essentials of Leadership.
  • Series: Service/professional and manufacturing.
  • Group size: 10 to 20 people.
  • Prework: No.

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