"Your "team building" work with our senior staff was highly successful. Success in that effort lead to an agreement to have C. Harris and Companies train some 400 managers, supervisors, and other employees in effective communication skills."
John R. Ortego Director USDA/National Finance Center

LEADERSHIP: EFFECTIVE TEAMS AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn to:

• Identify team issues.
• Influence and inspire your team.
• Help your team produce creative solutions.
• Use the principles of action learning in solving real-life challenges.
• Practice your leadership skills in real-life team challenges.
• Improve your skills in conflict resolution and communication.
• Build trust in team members through meeting challenges.
• Develop/improve a plan of action based on course insights.

Overview:

This course is designed for new teams, team leaders and members of intact work teams or a cross-section of team leaders. It takes leaders through the steps of team development and matches the readiness level of the team members to the development level of the challenge or the task. Participants work and learn in a non-threatening environment. The course format is informal and based almost totally on a series of teambuilding challenges. It explores the traditional concepts of leading teams with high performance demands. The goal is to help teams get unstuck in order to undertake difficult tasks.

Mini lectures, informal activities and exercises.  Fun!!!                

Length:

One – three days

Attendees:

Team leaders at all levels of the organization.  Members of teams.  Intact work teams.

Persons interested in the latest findings on teams, or interested in the subject of increasing teamwork in the organization.Executives and managers invited.

Facilitators:

Mike Kane / Ted Quant / Cathy Harris  (See Biographies)

Comments:

The program will offer new approaches to making the team more effective. This is a basic introduction to teambuilding and can work with an intact team that seeks to become more effective. Come with members of your organization and increase your effectiveness as a team.

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