Overview
Participants in this highly engaging workshop are introduced to key leadership and team collaboration concepts. Discussions build across the interrelated concepts to provide the awareness of behavioral shifts necessary to create and lead a high-performing team environment. Activities throughout the course allow participants to apply these concepts to their respective team environment, discuss their observations during these activities, and capture actionable learnings from each topic they can take back and apply immediately.
- Course Length:
- On-site: 2 days (recommended)
- Virtual: Four 3.5-hour sessions
- Professional Development Units (PDUs): 14 (14 Power Skills)
- Program Knowledge Level: Advanced
- Field of Study: Leadership
- Prerequisites: None
- Advance Preparation: None
- Benefits: Enhance understanding, identify key behaviors, and develop an action plan in leadership and high-performing team capabilities
Key Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Explain the five practices of exemplary leaders
Identify effective team member characteristics
Define and discuss the five key dynamics of teamwork and collaboration
Discuss and apply leading the shifts required to create a high-performing team
Describe the pitfalls of team communication and identify strategies to help ensure communication effectiveness
Identify five waves of trust and actions for building and developing increased trust
Course Outline
The Exemplary Leader
- Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders – Participants learn and discuss the Five Practices and 10 Commitments of Exemplary Leaders. These practices have been researched and developed extensively by James Kouzes and Barry Posner.
- Leadership is Everybody’s Business – We focus on leadership at all levels and on ideas for integrating it into daily work.
High-Performance Team Composition
- Effective Team Member Characteristics – Participants are introduced to Working Knowledge Factors and Teamwork Factors that enable an effective team, as defined by F. LaFasto and C. Larson in When Teams Work Best.
- Dynamics of Teamwork & Collaboration – Participants explore five dynamics of teamwork and collaboration, applying each to their team environment.
- Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Participants review the Five Dysfunctions of a Team as defined by Patrick Lencioni and discuss shifts required to build a more cohesive team.
- Effectively Communicating as a Team – Participants are introduced to methods for ensuring clear and authentic communication among the team.
- Five Waves of Trust – Participants explore the Five Waves of Trust, and the leader’s role in creating an environment of trust.
- Enemies of Trust – Participants discuss eight common enemies of trust and considerations for addressing each enemy.