Introduction
No matter how knowledgeable and competent its individual members may be, a dysfunctional team will undermine organizational goals, sap morale, and waste effort. This seminar focuses on the critical roles of team leader and middle manager in harnessing their team’s potential and introduces and practices techniques for moving the team to peak performance.
Highlights include:
- Understanding the role of the leader in team performance
- Measuring and managing performance
- Creating a shared team vision
- Harnessing the dynamics of the team
- Optimizing team flexibility and commitment
Course Objectives of Leading High Performing Teams
- Understanding your role as a leader
- Identifying and leveraging talent within the team
- Engaging and motivating the team with shared vision and values
- Establishing clear objectives and standards of performance for your team
- Measuring and managing team performance
- Managing and using conflict and challenge
Training Methodology
The seminar uses a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual exercises, mini-case studies, role plays, and syndicate discussions. Formal inputs are used to introduce underpinning theory. A key part of the learning process is sharing the differing experiences participants bring, as well as experimenting with a novel – and sometimes challenging – techniques. A psychometric instrument will be used to generate a personality profile, which will contribute to your understanding of your preferences and personal style.
Organizational Impact of Leading High Performing Teams
Team leaders and managers who have shared and practiced different ways of performing the key leadership functions offer increased self-awareness, flexibility, and confidence. They are better able to stand back from the everyday detail and focus on longer-term organizational and team needs and can devote more time to investing in future capability.
Personal Impact of Leading High Performing Teams
Participants will be exposed to a range of different approaches to leadership practice, allowing them to select those most suitable for their team’s requirements and the changing situations they together face. The opportunity to share experiences with fellow participants and experiment with new techniques in the safety of the training room will provide a broad spectrum of perspectives.
Who Should Attend?
Experienced team leaders; junior/middle managers new to their role, or with experience but little previous training.
Course Outlines of Leading High Performing Teams
DAY 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
DAY 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
DAY 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
DAY 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
DAY 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
About Barcelona
Barcelona, the main city of Catalonia on Spain's east coast, is known for its fantastic weather and proud local culture. It is also Spain's second largest city and has all the cosmopolitan trappings you would expect. Among Barcelona's many attractions are the delicious seafood, stunning architecture and vibrant atmosphere. It began life as a Roman city and has remained important ever since. Today, it is a buzzing city offering more than enough reasons to look for flights to Barcelona. Between UNESCO World Heritage Sites, famous sports teams plus great food, there's no shortage of ways to amuse oneself.
Things to do and places to visit in Barcelona
Barcelona really does have something for everyone. The attractions of Barcelona include beautiful beaches to relax on, almost endless historical locations to explore, all the shops you could ever wish for, one of the world's most admired football clubs and world-class eateries - you may never want to leave. Luckily, with so much to do the city's compactness makes it easy to explore. Simply wandering through the streets is a great way to soak up the atmosphere.
Just some of the great things to do in Barcelona include:
- Marvel at Gaudi's masterwork, the Sagrada Familia.
- Sample the wide range of tapas in Barcelona's bars.
- See the somewhat surreal architecture of Antoni Gaudi.
- Wander through Park Guell, which offers great views over the city and out to sea.
- See the Cubist master’s early work in the Picasso Museum.
- Get lost in the winding streets of the Gothic Quarter, known locally as the Barri Gotic.
- Browse the upmarket shops along the Passeig de Gracia.
- Soak up the tranquil atmosphere in the Cathedral of the Sea.
- Watch the silky skills of FC Barcelona in a game at the Camp Nou.
- Enjoy authentic paella with fresh seafood.
- Climb Montjuic for spectacular views.