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Course Overview

Introduction

This highly-interactive training seminar will help you understand how teams can achieve much more than either the team leader or the team members dream possible.

It will help team leaders and supervisors learn skills and techniques that enable them to feel more in control of their team while at the same time applying techniques that helps team members release their talents, energy and potential.

The seminar will examine the latest ways to motivate and manage teams for improved productivity and morale and help turn average team leaders into one’s that others in the organisation will aspire to join.

Program Objectives

Identify individual work styles differences and how to use them to develop your team
Apply the modern principles of time and activity management and manage self and team by them
Draw-up a comprehensive Team Purpose Analysis and objective set for the team’s foundation
Use creative techniques to push the boundaries of team problem-solving and decision-making
Apply modern motivation techniques to get the best out of team members
Use communication techniques that help minimize “noise in the team system”
Influence team members to embrace change and use it as a powerful, positive force

Who Should Attend?

This course will mainly benefit to purchasing managers, senior buyers, project managers, civil engineers, construction managers, contractors, sub-contractors, site engineers, senior management, and government agencies, architects, construction professionals, and anyone responsible for purchasing at a senior level who seeks to enhance their skills further.

Program Outline

DAY 1 : Starting From Within – You, The Team Leader

Know yourself and your role as a team leader – you strengths and style preferences
Set personal goals to guide your outputs
Priorities your time and tasks effectively and train your team to do the same
The power of role modelling and “Managing by Walking Around”
Examine and challenge the impact of your belief system and limiting beliefs

Building Team Foundations

Learn from what high performing teams do
Establish a stretching team purpose – developing a Team Purpose Analysis – TPA
Map out stakeholders and their needs

DAY 2 : Establishing Team Environment, Membership and Roles

Build an energetic team environment
Establish team roles – what’s missing in your team, what’s duplicated?
Apply team development stages knowledge to inform your leadership interventions
Identify and share individual’s social and work style preferences

DAY 3 : Building Outstanding Team Productivity, Progress and Learning

Deploy the lessons of motivational theory in managing the team
Influence and persuade stakeholders and partners
Help the team cope with change and be resilient
Develop a systems thinking perspective for continuous team improvement
Conduct team “After Action” reviews and follow up actions and achievements
Apply methods to celebrate team progress and successes

DAY 4 : Building Frictionless Team Communications

Improve and enhance individual and team communication skills – listening, questioning, clarifying and summarizing skills
Identify and develop strategies to overcome barriers to communications
Use Appreciative Inquiry to develop positive approaches to team issues
Give corrective and positive feedback that motivates
Design and conduct productive team meetings
Deploy the RACI approach to work allocation and reporting

DAY 5 : Dealing with Team Conflicts and Using Them to Improve Team Performance

Identify and resolve common team problems
Using the Thomas-Kilmann conflict mode instrument
Identify and manage dysfunctional, counter-productive team behaviour

Creativity for Team Problem Solving and Learning

Deploy methods to overcome mental blocks
Obtain the benefits of brainstorming
Make use of a range of creative and decision-making tools

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