• Primary objective and benefits

  This workshop will help participants to:
  1. Better understanding of how teams should ideally work.
  2. A clear view of themselves - their natural team role and secondary role, their strengths and weaknesses as team players.
  3. Strategies for helping the teams to perform more effectively.
  4. An increased ability to stand back and think about their teams rather than being drawn in or behaving unconsciously.

Program Contents

• Module 1 -
  Understanding Teams
  • What makes a good team?
  • Describe one you’ve been in
  • The research into effective teams
  • Self-audit as a team player

• Module 2 -
  Types Of People
  • The four types
  • Strengths and weaknesses as team players
  • Potential conflicts between the types
  • Marble exercise
  • Ideal process for a team to solve a problem

• Module 3 -
  Team Roles
  • The 8 roles explained
  • Review of individual results
  • Improving team performance
  • Problems between team types
  • Team types suited to leadership

• Module 4 -
  Communication Within The Team
  • The Johari Window
  • Blind spots and Facades
  • Openness in great teams
  • Your unexplored potential
  • Team meetings compared to other meetings

• Module 5 -
  Problems In Teams
  • Groupthink
  • Risky Shift
  • The 7 bad behaviors
  • The 4 step assertiveness process
  • Exercise 2: “Pots” (performed by nightmare teams)

• Module 6 -
  Communication Between Teams
  • The A/Z game
  • Communication, trust and forgiveness
  • Negotiation between teams
  • Successful strategies for this game
  • Application to real work

• Module 7 -
  Fully Performing Teams
  • Forming-storming-norming model
  • Exercise “Lego”
  • Planning, design, quality control roles
  • Review of exercise

• Module 8 -
  Personal Feedback And Plans
  • Exercise “Sunshine”
  • Exercise “Guess Who?”
  • Planned future actions