Managing & Building Effective Teams Training
Looking to build an effective team for your organization?
TrainSMART has just the solution for you! Our Managing and Building Effective Teams workshop is designed to help all employees achieve the organization’s goals by working together effectively and efficiently.
We understand that some teams work well while others fall apart. That’s why we define the foundational needs for teams to work effectively and create opportunities for building a team focus. We recognize the group dynamics that are the foundation for improving performance and assess strategy to make decisions.
Our building effective teams training workshop helps identify how the team values recognition, cohesiveness, role clarity, participation, and conflict management, and utilizes creative team development strategies. Whether you are new to a team or department or have been “at it” for a while, our team effectiveness principles are transferable to all work.
Our course outline includes an opening activity, leadership assessment diagnostic, team activity, team development questionnaire, and team development plan (TDP) tool. Our workshop is designed to help participants self-assess their leadership focus in terms of team development based on five leadership team functions.
With our effective team training workshop, you can achieve beyond expectations and develop partnerships and alliances, an essential aspect of effective organizations. Don’t wait any longer to build an effective team!
The Problem
- You don’t know how to build an effective team
- Some teams work together effectively while others fall apart
- Group dynamics are not assessed before a team is developed
- Team members have difficulty executing strategy into action
Our Solution
- Define the foundational needs for teams to work effectively and efficiently
- Create opportunities for building a team-focus
- Recognize the group dynamics that are the foundation for improving performance
- Assess strategy and make decisions
- Identify how the team values recognition, cohesiveness, role clarity, participation, and conflict management
- Utilize creative team development strategies
Effective Teams Training Course Outline
Opening Activity: Experience as a teacher
This introductory activity encourages participants to reflect on their personal experiences as leaders. By framing leadership as a teaching role, it helps participants understand the importance of guidance, mentorship, and skill development in leadership. This exercise may involve sharing stories of impactful leadership moments or lessons learned from past experiences.
Leadership Assessment Diagnostic
This section introduces an inventory tool for participants to self-assess their leadership focus in terms of team development. The assessment is based on five leadership team functions, which might include:
- Defining purpose and direction
- Building commitment and confidence
- Strengthening the mix and level of skills
- Managing relationships with outsiders
- Creating opportunities for others
Participants will complete the assessment and discuss their results, gaining insights into their leadership strengths and areas for improvement.
Why We Need Teams More Than Ever
This part of the workshop introduces seven elements of teams and explores ways to improve team effectiveness. These elements might include:
- Clear goals and roles
- Effective communication
- Diversity and inclusion
- Trust and psychological safety
- Adaptability and resilience
- Continuous learning and improvement
- Shared accountability
The session will discuss why each element is crucial in today’s fast-paced, complex business environment and provide strategies for enhancing these aspects within teams.
Team Activity: Run the bases
This interactive exercise, “Run the bases,” is likely a metaphorical or physical activity designed to illustrate key team concepts. It might involve:
- Collaboration and coordination among team members
- Clear communication under pressure
- Strategy development and execution
- Adapting to changing circumstances
The activity will be followed by a debrief to connect the experience to real-world team dynamics and leadership challenges.
Team Development Questionnaire
This assessment tool helps participants evaluate the current state of their teams. It may cover areas such as:
- Team goals and objectives
- Roles and responsibilities
- Decision-making processes
- Conflict resolution
- Team performance and productivity
Participants will complete the questionnaire and discuss the results, identifying strengths and areas for improvement in their teams.
Team Development Plan (TDP) Tool
The final section introduces an action planning tool to help leaders create a concrete plan for improving their teams. The TDP tool might guide participants to:
- Identify specific team development goals based on the workshop insights
- Outline actionable steps to achieve these goals
- Assign responsibilities and timelines for each action item
- Determine metrics for measuring progress and success
- Plan for potential obstacles and how to overcome them
Participants will leave the workshop with a personalized Team Development Plan they can implement in their organizations.
Target Audience
- Anyone responsible for developing and managing a team
Delivery Options
Building Successful Teams is available in the following delivery formats: Full Day Training Workshop, Multi-Session Webinar
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Team Building Workshops
Managing Virtual Teams Training
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Boost collaboration, productivity, and innovation by sending your virtual team leaders and members to our strategic training focused on implementing best practices for communication, relationship building, and results.
Building Successful Teams Training
Strategic, Cohesive, Empowering
Boost teamwork, collaboration, and results by sending your leaders and team members to our strategic and empowering workshop focused on building shared goals, trust, and effective working relationships.
Developing & Managing Effective Teams
Insightful, Strategic, Actionable
Boost team alignment, collaboration, and performance by leveraging our insightful team assessments and strategic development framework to create targeted action plans tailored to your team’s specific needs.
Team Building Training For
New Leaders
Fundamental, Interactive, Empowering
Boost new team leader success by leveraging our fundamental yet interactive team development training where they will gain the core techniques to expedite team growth, cultivate collaboration, and drive results.
Building Teamwork & Commitment
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Reignite stalled teams by leveraging our insightful DiSC®-based workshop to rebuild trust and commitment with customized delivery focused directly on your team’s specific needs.
Five Behaviors of A Cohesive Team Training
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Get to the root of team dysfunction and catalyze performance by sending your group to our customizable workshop experience built around the renowned Five Behaviors model.
Need A Virtual Instructor-Led Team Training?
Building Virtual Teams
This virtually facilitated series helps you identify team purpose, maximize strengths, and create a more productive team environment.
Team Building & Improv In A Covid Era
The highly interactive, fun team-building activity brings Improv to a virtual environment and incorporates activities that incorporate your company’s core values.
Launching High-Performing Teams
This half-day workshop for intact teams allows the group to create a shared understanding of what great teamwork looks like and how each person can add their unique value.
Launching New Teams With Lego Serious Play
This program uses the power of storytelling and making 3-dimensional models to quickly develop psychological safety and trust among team members.
MacGyver Team Challenge
Learn how to develop an agile mindset, diverge to seek more wild and novel ideas (Stretching what is possible), and teach tools that help reverse the assumptions we impose on ourselves.
The TrainSmart Solution
TrainSmart can become your full-service training department, delivering solutions to all your on-site training needs. When you partner with us, you gain several advantages, including:
Fully customized content and delivery: We customize our training systems to fit your team, department, and/or your entire organization.
Flexible scheduling: We deliver single sessions or multiple sessions to meet your timeframes, work schedules, and employee needs/expectations.
Reduced overall costs: On-site is typically less expensive than sending employees off-site. In addition, on-site allows us to develop common languages and terms that reduce communication issues when your employees are back on the job.
Immediate on-the-job application: Employees can immediately apply what they have learned.
Confidentiality is not compromised: What happens on-site, stays on-site.
Building cohorts teams: We can build cohorts teams that result in more productive, more efficient relationships.
Cutting-edge technology: We stay on top of all the latest technological developments in the industry, always bringing the most efficient and cost-effective methods into your organization.
Industry-leading experience: Our best-in-the-industry facilitators bring years of extensive experience and expertise to your company.