About This Course
Leaders are held accountable for team results, but strong teams do not develop simply because talented people are placed together. Teams move through different stages, encounter conflict, struggle with competing priorities, and include individuals who need different levels of direction, support, coaching, and motivation.
Leading High-Performing Teams helps leaders understand what their teams need from them and how those needs change over time. Participants examine the behaviors required to establish direction, strengthen collaboration, address performance challenges, develop individual talent, and create an environment in which people can do their best work.
Through practical exercises and workplace application, leaders learn how to assess their team’s development, adapt their leadership approach, manage conflict, solve problems, and balance the needs of individual team members with the results the organization expects.
- Who Should Attend
- How Will You Benefit
- What You Will Learn
This course is appropriate for:
- Managers and supervisors
- Team and department leaders
- Project and cross-functional team leaders
- Newly appointed leaders
- Experienced leaders seeking to strengthen team performance
- Professionals preparing to assume responsibility for a team
You will gain a practical framework for assessing where your team is, understanding what may be limiting its performance, and determining what leadership response is needed. Instead of relying on one leadership style for every situation, you will learn how to adjust the amount of direction, support, coaching, and accountability you provide.
You will become better equipped to address conflict before it damages performance, guide the team through problems, strengthen collaboration, and develop the capabilities of individual team members. You will also learn how to distinguish when someone needs coaching, mentoring, clearer expectations, or a different management approach.
You will leave with practical strategies for creating a more accountable, motivated, and productive team—and a clearer understanding of your role in making that happen.
- Apply six principles for overcoming leadership challenges
- Demonstrate critical team-leadership behaviors
- Match their leadership approach to the needs of the team
- Assess the characteristics and development stage of a team
- Adapt leadership strategies to different stages of team development
- Strengthen collaboration among team members
- Apply a six-step process for solving problems and addressing conflict
- Identify and assess the skills of individual team members
- Individualize people-management strategies
- Create a motivational team environment
- Distinguish between effective coaching and mentoring
Interested in Leading High-Performing Teams?
Whether you want to attend an upcoming open-enrollment session or bring this program to your organization, complete the contact form to share what you are looking for. We’ll follow up to discuss your needs, delivery options, and next steps.