team play

In today's business world, there is hardly a job that does not require collaboration within or across teams. Team-members and team-leaders at all levels will benefit from this course on collaboration.

Good teamwork can turn independent, un-empowered, I-do-as-I'm-told workers into engaged stakeholders who can generate new ideas and think up ways of reducing cost while increasing quality and productivity. Teamwork requires the skills to effectively plan and work together, manage differences, and resolve conflicts to jointly achieve successful outcomes.

In Team Play Training course, Participants will learn on how teams come together and about the roles that make individuals productive as team-members without diluting their identity. Participants will explore how individuals work, decide, and communicate and how they can rise above their differing work styles, biases, and expectations to achieve trust and harmony as a team. This will help bring out the best in your natural teaming abilities, allowing them to team more effectively together with others whose worldview and modus operandi are different.

Upon completion of Team Play workshop, Participants will:

  • Overcome the three major barriers that block team progress: setting goals and clarifying expectations, interpersonal relationships, and authority/responsibility
  • Identify the individual strengths and differences and develop a plan to bring them together to create a greater good
  • Follow the eight-step process for planning, decision-making, and creating team synergy
  • Use tools to become an effective team leader, facilitator, and team - member and understand the differences between the three roles
  • Effectively deal with difficult team-members
  • Improve team communications
  • Make the team meetings efficient and effective
  • Avoid group-think
  • Capitalize on the team strengths and value the differences
  • Develop trust and understanding across the team

COURSE AGENDA

  • Discussion: Defining team and teaming
  • Activity: Are there really four stages of a team?
  • Team rules and roles
  • Introductory exercise: Seeing others in 3D
  • Game: The value of working toward a common goal
  • Case study: One team, one voice
  • Communicating as a team
  • Collaborator versus contributor
  • Roping in the maverick team member
  • Case study: The misfit team
  • Identifying personal values and beliefs
  • Discussing strengths and differences
  • Exercise: Am I really biased?
  • Team action plan: Bringing together the team's strengths and differences to create a greater good
  • Eight-step process for planning and decision making
  • A system for planning supported by the whole team
  • Determining if buy-in exists
  • Creative problem solving and decision making
  • Discussion: Team benefits and downfalls
  • Game: Are we more productive as individuals or teams?
  • Making the most of team meetings
  • The roles that add value to a meeting
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of team meetings
  • Q and A
  • Developing an action plan