Team Building & Effective Leadership

By the end of this workshop the delegate will have learned the following:-
• Identify the skills and characteristics of successful team leaders
• Understand the different leadership styles and strategies for team development
• Understand how to develop your teams’ strengths
• Manage different personalities and encourage mutual respect for harmonious team
working
• Manage team meetings and briefings and delegate duties effectively
• Resolve conflict and deal with difficult circumstances positively and confidently
• Maintain on-going continuous development of the team.

• Interactive activity to identify the characteristics of an effective team, and
  the characteristics of an effective team leader
• The leadership continuum:
  When should the leader retain authority?
  When should the leader involve the team in decision making?
  When should the leader pass authority to the team?
• Activity in 3 teams, each with a leader briefed to adopt a different leadership style.
  Review of the impact of these leadership styles.
• Developing the team:
• Tuckman’s stages of team development – forming, storming, norming
  and performing
• Helping the team through these stages by answering the following questions:
  Why does the team exist – its purpose?
  What does the team need to do to achieve its purpose – team objectives?
  How should we work together as a team – team agreement?
  Who should do what – team roles?
• Discussion of Belbin’s team roles model – making the most of the team’s strengths,
  and addressing the team’s weaknesses.
• Identification of causes of conflict within a team
• Exploration of 4 conflict handling styles:
  Controlling
  Persuasive
  Steadying
  Diligent
• Activity and discussion to identify appropriate styles to adopt to different personalities and situations.
• Team meetings:
  Why have them?
  How often?
  What to do before, during and after to ensure that they are effective
• Maintaining continuous development in the team:
  Support and challenge – striking the right balance
  Making work meaningful
  Enhancing autonomy for team members
  Building competence within the team
  Creating a feedback culture
• Activity – applying effective team working in practice
• Action planning – how can I apply my learning in the workplace?