Executive Team Building
Executive training should not only provide information but also offer a venue for executives to identify needs, set goals and objectives, and plan a course of action for making the organization more successful. Team building training is best done in combination with organizational change work, as the group is able to accomplish something together and walk out of the room with a plan for making improvements to the organization that they will implement together.
The two-day agenda is designed not only to build team skills but also have the team walk away with necessary business skills, as well as consensus and ownership of an action plan for moving the organization forward. The proposed decision making and the implementation planning exercises will start to introduce a more disciplined process for being pro-active instead of reactive and help the individual team members manage their work more effectively.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and assess the challenges faced by the organization and root causes for these issues
- Understand the team decision making process
- Collaboratively complete an action plan for moving the organization forward
- Improve team productivity so the team can move through the five stages of team development and become high performing
Skills You Will Learn:
- Working with diverse thinking and learning styles
- Effective listening
- Avoiding conflict
- Conflict Resolution
- Assessing risks
- Managing the stages of team development
- Organizational change assessment
- Problem identification
- Team-based decision-making
- Creating an implementation plan for change
Day One:
- Introductory Information
- Building Teams
- Thinking Styles & Teams
- Learning Styles & Teams
- Communication and Diversity within the Team
- The Effective Team
- Stages of Team Development
- Effective Listening
- Types of Conflict
- Approaches to Handling Conflict
- Conflict Resolution
- Lunch
- Organizational Change Assessment and Problem Identification Team Exercise
- Affinity Diagramming
- Root Cause Analysis
- Solution Analysis
- Prioritization of Changes
Day Two:
- Team-based decision-making
- Basic Facilitation
- The Decision-Making Process
- Consensus
- Levels of Decisions
- Decision Definition
- Identifying Options
- Analyzing Options
- High-level Planning
- Lunch
- Action Plan for Change
- Creating an Implementation Plan
- Scope Definition
- Risk Assessment
- Accountability
- Time Line
- Team Exercise
- Creating an Implementation Plan for Organizational Change (based on results from 1st day)