Leaders of technical professionals face a substantial challenge: to achieve successful task completion through positive work relationships. Leadership team development is your ticket to getting things done. In this highly interactive seminar, you will learn how to build and lead a team...evaluate your team's performance...and develop an action plan for continued leadership success.
There are no prerequisites for this course.
IT and technical professionals, including team leaders, managers, directors and others who want to enhance their team-building and leadership skills.
Technical vs. nontechnical professionals: differences that impact the leader’s role
Various types of teams: functional, cross-functional, self-managed and self-directed—how to vary your leadership style to meet the needs of the team
Key steps to building high-performance teams
Evaluating individual and team performance
Using discipline, coaching, communication, problem-solving and authority to better manage your people
Forming
Understand the Differences Between Technical and Nontechnical Professionals
Describe Why People Skills Are Important to Leadership
Differentiate Among Doing, Managing, and Leading
Describe Best Practices for Holding Successful Team Meetings and for Building a High-Performance Team
Identify Your Leadership Style
Storming
Describe the Stages of Team Development
Apply Your Insight Work Style to the Stages of Team Development
Identify Effective Approaches to Dealing with Team Conflict
Describe the Steps of Assertive Communication
Give and Receive Feedback
Norming
Explain How to Delegate Responsibility
Identify Effective Motivational Strategies for Your Team
Describe Effective Coaching Behaviors
Performing
Describe the Stages of Team Development
List Ways to Avoid Groupthink
Develop a Plan to Improve Your Individual Leadership Skills
Apply What You Have Learned to Your Own Team
Learning Objectives
Lead Teams of Technical Professionals
Balance the Roles of Leading, Managing, and Doing
Deploy the Appropriate Type of Team for Each Specific Situation That Warrants a Team
Use the Team Meeting Success Tool to Improve Team Performance
Train the Team Members on Effective Teamwork
Analyze Changes in Team Dynamics and Take Effective Action
Use Conflict Constructively
Coach and Provide Feedback to Individuals and the Team
Demonstrate Effective Motivation, Communication, Coaching, and Leadership Without Authority
Evaluate Individual and Team Performance
Develop a Plan, Monitor and Measure Performance
Move a Team Toward High Performance
Develop a Plan to Improve Your Individual Leadership Skills
Forming
Identify the Unique Characteristics of Technical Professionals
Identify How Technical Professional Are Like Most Other Professionals
Use Your Understanding of Technical Professionals to Lead Teams
Differentiate Among Doing, Managing, and Leading
Plan Your Time Appropriately
Rise to Some of the Challenges of the New Team Leader
Deploy the Appropriate Type of Team for Each Specific Situation That Warrants a Team
Assign Teams Appropriate Activities
Use the Team Meeting Success Tool to Improve Team Performance
Execute the Role of Team Leader and Train Team Members
Establish the Basic Necessities of Team Building
Use Your Leadership Style Effectively
Analyze Changes in Team Dynamics
Take Effective Action with Changing Team Dynamics
Storming
Use Conflict Constructively
Prevent or Minimize Destructive Conflict
Norming
Manage the Team Day to Day, Applying Planning, Discipline, Problem Solving, and Delegating Responsibility
Coach and Provide Feedback to Individuals and the Team
Lead the Team Using Motivation, Communication, and Leadership Without Authority
Evaluate Individual Performance Looking Forward, Not Backward
Evaluate Team Performance Looking Forward, Not Backward
Plan for Success, Strategically and Tactically
Monitor and Measure Performance
Take Responsibility and Improve Performance
Plan and Improve Your Individual Leadership Skills
Performing
Move a Team Toward High Performance
Articulate What You Have Learned
Decide Whether Your Concerns Have Been Addressed
Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.