Last updated : 28 Oct 2016

Team Building: New Strategies for Developing Effective Teams

Summary

This course is a complete team building training with practical assignment for you to excel in team development and create a favorable team spirit to achieve the goals of your team.

Programme

Section 1: Start here. Obviously!

1. Your Secret for taking this course
2. What is it all about?
3. What are Your Learning Objectives

Section 2: Defining Teams

1. What is a Team?
2. The 6 Types of Teams
3. Positioning your Team

Section 3: Establishing Team Norms

1. Establishing Team Norms
2. Characteristics of Teams
3. Establishing Ground Rules
4. Team Contracts, will they work with you?
5. Sample Team Contract

Section 4: Agreement, or maybe Not

1. Working as a Team
2. Degrees of Support

Section 5: Four Team Player Types - Which Type Are You?

1. What’s Your Team Player Type?
2. Identify your Team Player Type
3. Your Assessment File
4. The Scoring Table
5. What does it mean to have a number?
6. Mostly A’s – Inquiring Rationals
7. Mostly B’s – Authentic Idealists
8. Mostly C’s – Organized Guardians
9. Mostly D’s – Resourceful Artisans
10. What is Important?
11. Questioning Strength and Weakness

Section 6: A most important Element of Team Building

1. Why is Trust Important?
2. Learning from Experience

Section 7: Building The Team

1. The Stages of Team Development
2. The Forming Stage
3. The Storming Stage
4. The Norming Stage
5. The Performing Stage
6. The Adjourning Stage
7. Forming an Effective Team - Secret Advice
8. Building The Team - Using What You Learned

Section 8: Three "Creative Team Thinking Methods" to Get Solutions, Decisions, Action Plans

1. The Three Methods to Achieve Creative Team Thinking (added 5th July 2015)
2. Three Phases to Successful Brainstorming (added 5th July 2015)
3. How Brainwriting Engages all Team Members (added 5th July 2015)
4. The Six Thinking Hat Method Everybody Should Know (added 5th July 2015)

Section 9: Final Notes

1. Becoming a good Team Player
2. Quiz 1: Assess what your learned

Learning outcomes

• Understand the value of working as a team
• Develop team norms, ground rules, and team contracts
• Identify your team player style and how it can be used effectively with your own team
• Build team trust
• Identify the stages of team development and how to help a team move through them
• Identify ways that team members can be involved and grow in a team setting

 

Teaching-Learning methodology

xMocc - based on transmission of contents through video (1,5 hours), documents, tests.

Assessment

Quiz (7 questions)