Course Overview

This ever-timely workshop teaches you how to create, lead, and support high performing teams inside your organization. Without clichés or trite metaphors, this course offers the nuts and bolts of how to make your teams perform better. This workshop synthesizes decades of field research in organizational behavior and social psychology and best practice. As such, you will learn and imbed in your thinking the concepts and skills of an effective team leader and member. Your ability to motivate your team members to higher levels of productivity and job satisfaction will become second nature and their effect will impact the bottom line.

This full-day course, taught by two seasoned team experts, uses an interactive workshop format to teach and then practice key skills and tools for building, leading and sustaining all types of teams, from newly- formed and in-tact teams to virtual teams, highly diverse teams and even impaired teams. You will learn how to diagnose team and task needs using the three criteria of team effectiveness. With vivid real-world examples from your own experience and others', you will learn and then practice diagnosing, creating and managing the 5 critical conditions that lead to sustained team impact—be it in prosperous or challenging times. You will leave with a Monday morning list of actions you can take to improve your current teams. This course will also provide the knowledge and skill to properly launch, coach and wrap up team-based projects. When you bring this new mastery to your everyday work life, you will see the difference in working relationships and in team performance. Your clients will be pleased with the outcome, your team will grow stronger, and individual team members will be more satisfied and motivated.

Course Outline

• Assessing and creating 'real team' conditions
• Setting a clear and compelling direction
• Creating and ensuring an enabling structure
• Developing external relationships to obtain organizational resources
• Providing expert, ongoing coaching to support the team
• Managing team conflict and mediating challenging relationships
• Fostering conditions for innovation and collective intelligence

Class Presented by:

Edy Greenblatt, Ph.D. and Eriv V. Lehman, Ph.D.

“Because the concepts are simple, yet the skills required are subtle, most people never fully integrate this in their repertoire—be they leaders, managers or team members. They rarely master or expertly execute the fundamental skills needed to create and sustain high performing teams. This course will help you change that.”
Dr. Erin Lehman
Teaching Teams to Lead
(2010 forthcoming)