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Creating High-Performing Teams
Course Code: PDP 5114

The team structure adapts most easily to changing conditions and has the greatest potential for creative solutions. This workshop provides a successful team development process that facilitates the development of a new team or the revitalization of an existing team. Whether your team is an ongoing work group, or a special project based team of limited duration, you will rapidly increase its effectiveness with the use of these team work tools and skills.

Who Should Attend
Professionals who want to learn the skills and best practices for building and leading teams to high performance.

What You Will Learn
• Understanding the difference between work groups and teams
• Seven factors that teams need to be high performing
• Best practices to develop and lead a high performing team
• The importance of using clear goals, roles, and processes for conducting team meetings and for building team effectiveness
• Understanding the stages that all teams go through and the tools and tasks needed to move successfully through each stage of the building process
• Tools that are used to align individuals to be effective as team members
• Instruments that develop positive interactions among team members
• Methods to use for team problem solving and goal attainment

How You Will Benefit
• Build skills to be an effective team leader and member
• Learn tools and techniques to build and maintain high performance teams
• Develop confidence and ability to deal effectively with challenging team situations
• Apply facilitative leadership skills to promote team communication, collaboration, and performance
• Understand and utilize team member differences in styles, communication, and motivations
• Use the resources of the team to identify and overcome obstacles
• Utilize team communication strategies, tools, and techniques to assure positive outcomes
• Gain best practices for leading virtual teams
• Have the opportunity to practice tools and skills in team exercises
• Be able to use ongoing evaluation and feedback tools to monitor team’s progress

Dates / Locations

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Please note that courses have been assigned new numbers beginning with the fall term.
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Fees
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Instructor
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