Leading High Performing Teams

Overview:

Introduction:

This training program equips participants with the essential skills and knowledge to effectively lead high-performing teams. Participants will gain the expertise needed to inspire, motivate, and manage teams efficiently in dynamic and challenging environments.

Program Objectives:

At the end of this program, the participants will be able to: 

• Understand their role as a leader.

• Identify and leverage talent within the team.

• Engage and motivate the team with shared vision and values.

• Establish clear objectives and standards of performance for their team.

• Measure and manage team performance.

• Manage and resolve conflict and challenges effectively.

• Optimize team flexibility and commitment.

Targeted Audience:

• Mid to Senior-level Managers: Seeking to enhance their leadership skills to drive high performance within their teams.

• Human Resources Professionals: Focused on cultivating effective team leadership strategies and fostering a positive work culture.

• Project Managers: Striving to optimize team dynamics and productivity to achieve project goals efficiently.

• Team Leaders: Aimed at refining their leadership abilities to inspire and guide their teams toward excellence.

• Organizational Leaders: Interested in developing a cohesive and empowered team culture to achieve overarching business objectives.

Program Outlines:

Unit 1:

Teams and Their Leaders: 

• Teams, leaders, and managers.

• Key leadership tasks.

• Influence, authority and power.

• Leadership styles and style flexibility.

• Self-awareness.

• Emotional intelligence and rapport.

Unit 2:

Vision, Direction & Alignment:

• Creating a shared vision.

• Aims, objectives and goal alignment.

• Developing meaningful objectives and indicators.

• Divergent approaches to problem-solving.

• Communicating a compelling vision.

• Delivering challenging messages.

Unit 3:

Team Dynamics:

• Team development.

• The sociology of the team.

• Characteristics of high-performing teams.

• Balancing team roles.

• Non-traditional team structures.

• Delegation and empowerment.

Unit 4:

Developing The Team:

• Learning and competence.

• Building a coherent team.

• Self-managing teams and their challenges.

• Coaching, mentoring, and self-directed learning.

• Feedback and appraisal.

• Leveraging team strengths for peak performance.

Unit 5:

Performance & Conflict Management: 

• Defining performance.

• Approaches to measuring team and individual performance.

• Performance through the eyes of the customer.

• Performance management: science or art.

• Conflict as a catalyst for team development.

• Dealing with challenging interpersonal relations.