General Team Building
Course Length: ½, 1, or 2 days
Teamwork is a part of everyday business life. Whether it’s virtual, in the office, or on the road, we are often expected to be a functional part of a team. Having a strong team benefits every organization and will lead to more successes than not. Teamwork is how your participants will elevate that event or project from just OK to great!
Through our General Team Building workshop participants will be encouraged to explore the different aspects of a team, as well as ways that they can become a top-notch team performer. They will be given the details and concepts of what makes up a team, and what factors into being a successful team and team member. Activities that build camaraderie, develop problem solving skills, and stimulate interaction will give your participants what is needed to be a great team member.
Module One: Getting Started
Module Two: What Are The Benefits Of Team Building?
Module Three: Types of Team Building
Module Four: Games
Module Five: More Team Building Games
Module Six: Activities
Module Seven: More Team Building Activities
Module Eight: Social Gathering
Module Nine: Common Mistakes When Team Building
Module Ten: Formatting a Team Building Plan
Module Eleven: Evaluate
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
High Performance Teams inside the Company
Course Length: ½, 1, or 2 days
High Performance Teams (Inside the Company) are organizations, teams or groups working inside an office environment that are focused on achieving the same goals. Bringing team members together can sometimes be a challenge task. This workshop identifies these challenges and helps your participants push through to success.
With our High Performance Teams (Inside The Company) workshop, your participants will begin to see how important it is to develop a core set of high performance skills while working in an office locale. By knowing and managing the way people interact in an office setting, you will be positioning your high performance teams to accomplish any task.
Module One: Getting Started
Module Two: The Benefits of High Performance Teams
Module Three: Challenges of High Performance Teams
Module Four: How to Build and Lead High Performance Teams
Module Five: Characteristics of High Performance Teams
Module Six: Roles of an Effective Team Leader
Module Seven: Traits of Great Leaders Leading High Performance Teams (I)
Module Eight: Traits of Great Leaders Leading High Performance Teams (II)
Module Nine: Ideas for Motivating High Performance Teams
Module Ten: Steps to Retaining High Performers
Module Eleven: Augmenting Team Performance
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
High Performance Teams Remote Workforce
Course Length: ½, 1, or 2 days
High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce) are organizations, teams or groups working in a virtual environment that are focused on achieving the same goals. Bringing team members together through a virtual environment can be a challenge task. This workshop identifies these challenges and helps your participants push through to success.
With our High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce) workshop, your participants will begin to see how important it is to develop a core set of high performance skills, while working remotely. By knowing and managing the way people interact in a remote environment, you will be setting up your high performance teams to accomplish any task.
Module One: Getting Started
Module Two: Remote Workforce
Module Three: High Performance Teams
Module Four: Characteristics of High Performance Teams
Module Five: How to Create Teamwork
Module Six: Types of Communication
Module Seven: Training Your Team
Module Eight: Managing the Team
Module Nine: Effective Team Meeting How-to
Module Ten: Keep Happy and Motivated High Performance Team
Module Eleven: Don’ts with High Performance Teams
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
Problem Solving for Teams
Course Length: ½ or 1 day
After taking this course, you will discover five tools that will help you recognize a problem, learn how to analyze a problem and its cause, find out how to outline your problem solving/decision making, and learn the eight tips that can improve a team’s process. Bringing together a group of people with varied skills and talents to solve a common problem sounds simple enough. However, it’s important to understand problem-solving techniques, problem analysis, decision-making tools, and solution implementation to effectively tackle problem solving as a team.
Part 1: Problem Solving and Decision Making
Part 2: Process Overview
Part 3: Communication Dynamics
Part 4: Problem Recognition
Part 5: Problem Labeling
Part 6: Problem Analysis
Part 7: Optional Solutions
Part 8: Decision Making
Part 9: Implementation
Part 10: Summary
Team Building
Course Length: ½ or 1 day
Building a team is similar to building a house–you have to start from the ground up. A team is made up of individuals with different talents, skills, and personal working styles. Learning to work together as a group can be as challenging as it is rewarding. Team Building is a primer on how to formulate strong teams through a climate of open communication, trust, and accountability. Like building a house, the course takes students step by step through the process from creative ways to encourage teamwork to tips for handling conflicts effectively.
Part 1: Designing a Successful Blueprint for Your Team
Part 2: Building a Strong Foundation
Part 3: Constructing a Solid Framework
Part 4: Installing Windows to Better Communication
Part 5: Erecting a Stable Roof of Trust
Team Building for Managers
Course Length: ½, 1, or 2 days
Teamwork is a part of everyday business life. Whether it’s virtual, in the office, or on the road, we are often expected to be a functional part of a team. Having a strong team benefits every organization and will lead to more successes than not. Teamwork is how your participants will elevate that event or project from just OK to great!
Through our Team Building for Managers workshop participants will be encouraged to explore the different aspects of a team, as well as ways that they can become a top-notch team performer. They will be given the details and concepts of what makes up a team, and what factors into being a successful team and team member. Activities that build camaraderie, develop problem solving skills, and stimulate interaction will give your participants what is needed to be a great team member.
Module One: Getting Started
Module Two: What Are The Benefits Of Team Building?
Module Three: Types of Team Building
Module Four: Creating Team Chemistry
Module Five: Improving Team Strength
Module Six: Engagement and Collaboration Activities
Module Seven: Building a Great Team Identity
Module Eight: Social Gathering
Module Nine: Common Mistakes When Team Building
Module Ten: Formatting A Team Building Plan
Module Eleven: Evaluations and Improvements
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
Team Building through Chemistry
Course Length: ½, 1, or 2 days
Teams are unavoidable in any business. The key to successful team building is addressing the importance of chemistry. By staying aware of the chemistry as you build the group, you will increase the chance of avoiding pitfalls and developing a sense of unity.
With our Team Building through Chemistry workshop, your participants will discover the specifics of how building a team through chemistry will lead to success. It is not enough to have a group of people just work on a project. They need to connect and utilize each other’s strength through team chemistry.
Module One: Getting Started
Module Two: Understanding Teams
Module Three: Team Development Model
Module Four: Chemistry in Teams
Module Five: Diversity
Module Six: Vision and Goals
Module Seven: Roles
Module Eight: Leadership Functions
Module Nine: Develop Cohesion
Module Ten: Build Relationships
Module Eleven: Direction of Team
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
Team Participation
Course Length: ½ or 1 day
This course teaches students how to be an effective team member. Students learn how to communicate effectively, adapt to various personality styles, overcome common problems, work on aspects of verbal and nonverbal communication, create a supportive team environment, understand the source of team conflict, and employ different conflict resolution styles. Course activities also cover resolving conflict, avoiding the negative consequences of conflict, maximizing real benefits, reaching consensus, and making positive contributions to team decisions.
Unit 1: Understanding team fundamentals
Unit 2: Communicating in teams
Unit 3: Communicating nonverbally and listening actively
Unit 4: Understanding conflicts
Unit 5: Resolving conflicts
Unit 6: Making a decision
Unit 7: Understanding consensus method
Teamwork and Team Building
Course Length: ½, 1, or 2 days
For most of us, teamwork is a part of everyday life. Whether it’s at home, in the community, or at work, we are often expected to be a functional part of a performing team. This workshop will encourage you to explore the different aspects of a team, as well as ways that they can become a top-notch team performer.
Module One: Getting Started
Module Two: Defining Success
Module Three: Types of Teams
Module Four: The First Stage of Team Development – Forming
Module Five: The Second Stage of Team Development – Storming
Module Six: The Third Stage of Team Development – Norming
Module Seven: The Fourth Stage of Team Development – Performing
Module Eight: Team Building Activities
Module Nine: Making the Most of Team Meetings
Module Ten: Solving Problems as a Team
Module Eleven: Encouraging Teamwork
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
Virtual Teaming
Course Length: ½ or 1 day
Virtual teaming skills are used to break the boundaries of time and place. This course outlines the principles for using technology to maximize team productivity, working without time and place restrictions, developing good collaboration skills, building trust, and avoiding miscommunication. Virtual teams are not just an idea for the future; they are a reality in today’s workplace. Global economies, new technology, and increased mobility have made virtual teaming an essential tool for modern day business problem solving. You will learn how to foresee and overcome challenges associated with global and mobile team members, so that these teams can implement solutions that work effectively across geographic and cultural boundaries.
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Joining a Virtual Team
Part 3: Getting Started: Considerations, Assessments, and Tools
Part 4: Technology and Communication
Part 5: Case Studies and Review
Virtual Team Building and Management
Course Length: ½, 1, or 2 days
There are an estimated one billion virtual workers in 2012, and the number is expected to continue climbing well into the future. With a global workforce you are provided with a cost effective and talented pool of employees to draw from. With a virtual team you are given a Follow the Sun production environment.
With a virtual team you have the normal issues of a localized team, with the additional challenges of distance and cultural differences. Virtual Team Building and Management will give you participants the knowledge to work with these challenges and succeed in a growing global workforce.
Module One: Getting Started
Module Two: Setting up Your Virtual Team (I)
Module Three: Setting up Your Virtual Team (II)
Module Four: Virtual Team Meetings
Module Five: Communication (I)
Module Six: Communication (II)
Module Seven: Building Trust
Module Eight: Cultural Issues
Module Nine: To Succeed With a Virtual Team
Module Ten: Dealing With Poor Team Players
Module Eleven: Choosing the Right Tools
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
Working in Teams
Course Length: ½ or 1 day
Designed for anyone who works in teams, this timely course addresses such crucial issues as what team membership is, what team rules are, and how to function effectively as a team. It explains how to make meetings work, reach agreement, create a team “family,” and conduct post-project follow-up. Especially of value are the tips on how to establish communication, closeness, and commonality. Also covered are the five roles of an effective team leader, the four functions of team members, and the three Ps of project management, as well as techniques for promoting creativity and participation.
Part 1: Team Nuts & Bolts
Part 2: Organizing Your Team
Part 3: Working Together
Part 4: Monitoring Progress
Working Together
Course Length: ½ or 1 day
Today’s workplace brings together a variety of people with very diverse backgrounds and behaviors. Discover how culture and politics impact your organization, and learn to reverse prejudicial thinking and understand how gestures and body language can differ between cultures. This course will guide you through mastering how you think about yourself and others, how to speak and listen effectively to people with different backgrounds, and how to pay attention to the non-verbal language of “where, when, and how” you do things.
Part 1: Manage Your Mind
Part 2: Manage Your Words
Part 3: Manage the Unspoken
Part 4: Taking Action
Part 5: Diversity and Globalization
Part 6: Conclusion
