Team Management and Development

Only available as an in-house course

This one-week course is dedicated to an existing team or those expected to assume such a role in the near future. Participants will be taught the principles of effective teamwork and how to address common challenges. Further, they will be taught how to develop a team that offers a unique value proposition for stakeholders. The course ends with guidance on running effective meetings and workshop facilitation, two skills that can be used to generate optimal results from one’s colleagues.

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Course Outline

Understanding Teams and Teamwork

Understanding Teams

  • The key features of teams
  • The varieties of teams
  • The utility and value of teams and teamwork
  • Internal and external factors influencing teams
  • The limitations and dangers of teamwork

Understanding Teamwork

  • Key team design features
  • Team size
  • Team expertise
  • Team roles and responsibilities
  • Team decision making
  • Building a team identity
  • The team life cycle
  • Anticipating problems
  • Recognition and reward

Successful Teamwork

Effective Teamwork

  • What makes a team effective?
  • Successful team members
  • Successful team leadership
  • Commitment vs. agreement
  • Accountability vs. responsibility
  • Consensus vs. dissent
  • Advocacy vs. objective inquiry
  • Emotional awareness
  • Tools for maintaining high performance

Fixing Problems

  • Understanding common team dysfunctions
  • What makes team relationships right or wrong?
  • Toxic team members and managers
  • Dealing with toxic behaviour
  • Analysing and dealing with the team’s past
  • Solving other common team-related problems

Understanding One’s Place Within a Team

  • Becoming an effective team working
  • Defining a value proposition
  • Understanding your strengths and weaknesses
  • Leading from the front vs. leading from the rear
  • Championing your team’s values
  • Marginalising negative traits and behaviours

Teamwork and Leadership

Leading Teams

  • Leading a team: traits and habits
  • Developing a team via coaching and mentoring
  • Developing a team through learning
  • Developing a team’s resilience and adaptability
  • Delegating, empowering, and releasing authority
  • Encouraging trust and mutual respect
  • Managing adaptation and change
  • Providing feedback

Managing Team Change

  • Changing team objectives / functions
  • Changing team roles and responsibilities
  • Gaining or losing team members
  • Teams during organisational change

Managing Effective Meetings

Organising and Running Effective Meetings

  • Understanding the purpose of meetings
  • Formal vs. informal meetings
  • Assessing the effectiveness of meetings
  • Improving the effectiveness of meetings
  • The PDORA document
  • The 7Ps Framework

On Being an Effective Facilitator

  • Three components of facilitation
  • The role and responsibilities of the facilitator
  • The role of participants in a facilitated event
  • Models of facilitation involvement
  • Understanding the relationships between the facilitator, group, and the task
  • Guidelines for effective facilitation
  • The facilitator’s checklist
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Course Benefits

On completion of this course, participants will have acquired the ability to:

  • Design, develop and lead effective teams
  • Improve trust, dialogue and knowledge sharing within one’s team
  • Leverage team dynamics to the benefit of the organisation
  • Enhance the resilience and problem-solving capabilities of one’s team
  • Facilitate effective meetings and workshops

Course Requirements

Participants are required to bring a laptop with them and to set up a Gmail account if they do not already have one.