Improved Communication & Teamwork
Training Benefits & Deliverables:
- Promote increased cooperation and collaboration among all levels of management in team building training
- Develop an improved appreciation for other team members
- Increase individual, team and department productivity and effectiveness
- Improve morale and cooperation up, down and between the links of the chain of command
- Improve both individual and department responsibility and accountability with team building training
- Increase the cooperation and collaboration of individuals, teams and departments
- Reduce the frustration and antagonism between people/departments that don’t get along
- Understand the roles and goals of management teams and team-members
- Promote more creative problem solving among among team members
- Encourage appropriate risk-taking in team building training
- Improve the lines of communication and the flow of information with team building training
- Develop communication skills that lead to understanding and consensus with team building training
- Develop the interpersonal skills that generate harmony and allow departments to get along
Course Outline:
I. The Importance of Working Together as Teams
- Benefits of executive level team building, cooperation and coordination
- Most common reasons team building and cooperation aren’t successful
- Establish the necessary foundations for trust and communication
- Overcome obstacles to teamwork and communication
II. Expand Your Interpersonal Skills and Abilities
- Assess your own skills and abilities
- Identify your work style and ability realistically
- Identify the most important skill sets to be an effective team member
- Understand your personality and how it can affect work relationships
- Learn about other types of personalities and how to get along with them
- Identify changes in your personality that can improve your overall effectiveness
- Understand the most important “6 Team Effectiveness Factors”
- Improve your interpersonal communication skills
- Develop improved listening skills
- Learn to present your ideas more effectively without generating arguments
- Learn how to give and receive feedback more constructively and less destructively
- Understand and practice effective consensus-building and decision-making skills
- Encourage trust by demonstrating loyalty to your team
III. Share Responsibility / Accountability for Team & Organizational Results
- Recognize individual personality and professional differences on teams
- Avoid interpersonal conflict in teams
- Develop more effective conflict resolutions strategies
- Understand how executive team fighting affects employee morale and motivation
- Develop more effective and creative problem-solving techniques
- Understand the importance of fulfilling obligations in showing commitment
- Learn how to more effectively encourage and support fellow team members
- Learn how to more effectively support each other
- Increase your ability to productively participate in meetings
- Cultivate and maintain more positive working relationships with fellow team members
