CORE Skills in Team Development
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Most project leaders focus on hard skills - defining scope, creating a schedule, establishing a budget - but at least half of the problems associated with projects are the result of inadequate team skills. CORE Skills in Team Development focuses on improving the way people work together as a project team. Project team performance can be accelerated by focusing on the team process - how team members work together in order to accomplish the goals of the project. This workshop helps project leaders |
and project team members improve their skills in the following areas: communicating within the team and outside the team, making decisions as a team, avoiding conflict, understanding and working with diverse thinking and learning styles, resolving conflict, providing constructive feedback and running effective meetings.
You'll learn how to speed through the forming and storming stages more quickly by learning tools that can be applied either individually or in a collaborative team environment. This highly interactive workshop provides you with the tools you need to build new skills that can be applied immediately to you real project work with the project team you've been assigned. Augment your own team skills or bring your project team and do some team building as you all learn together.
Target Audience
Project leaders and/or project Team members
Length of Workshop
2 Days
- Improve team decision making ability
- Communicate more effectively
- Increase team collaboration and commitment
- Achieve better project results
What You Will Learn
SKILLS:
- Effective listening
- Constructive feedback
- Avoiding conflict
- Resolving conflict
- Working with diverse thinking and learning styles
- Assessing risks
- Managing the stages of team development
- Running more effective meetings
TOOLS:
- Team Contract
- Radar Chart
- Mind Mapping
- Affinity Diagram
- Interrelationship Digraph
- Multi-voting
- Nominal Group Technique
- Personal Coat of Arms
- Impact/Difficulty Grid
- Decision Matrix
- Conflict Resolution
Detailed Agenda
DAY ONE
- Introductions
- Directive vs. Collaborative Management
- Classic Brainstorming
- Risk Assessment & Impact/Probability Grid
- Exercise - Collaborative Risk Assessment
- Team Contract
- Exercise - Team Contract
- Parking Lot
- Thinking Styles & Project Teams
- Exercise - Thinking Styles
- Learning Styles & Project Teams
- Exercise - Learning Styles
- Exercise - Personal Coat of Arms
- The Effective Project Team
- Exercise - Team Effectiveness
- Mind Mapping
- Exercise - Mind Mapping
- Project Management & Team Processes
- Stages of Team Development
- Effective Listening
- Exercise - Effective Listening
- Visual Recording
- Exercise - Self-Assessment
DAY TWO
- Constructive Feedback
- Exercise - Constructive Feedback
- Affinity Diagramming
- Exercise - Affinity Diagramming
- Multi-voting/Nominal Group Technique
- Exercise - Nominal Group Technique
- Interrelationship Digraph
- Exercise - Interrelationship Digraph
- Impact/Difficulty Grid
- Decision Matrix
- Exercise - Decision Matrix
- Types of Conflict
- Thinking Styles Conflicts
- Approaches to Handling Conflict
- Conflict Resolution
- Exercise - Conflict Resolution
PDU's
14 Units
Prerequisites
None
Materials Provided
Workshop notebook, The Team Jogger(tm)