Teambuilding is so much more than encouraging team members to work together toward a common goal. Empowering your team requires effective leadership on your part. This course addresses crucial aspects of team dynamics and provides useful suggestions for leading a productive and diverse team. Special emphasis is placed on measures for improving team performance, managing conflict, promoting interdependence and collaboration among team members, coaching virtual teams, and fostering an inclusive team environment that leverages the advantages diversity has to offer. Useful for all career school managers, this course will help you build your team leadership skills and create a strong foundation for team success.
Module 1:
Diagnose common problems that can impede team progress.
Take corrective measures to remove team problems and improve performance.
Resolve team conflicts.
Promote interdependence within teams.
Improve your team leadership skills.
Module 2:
Evaluate whether you should establish a team.
Form a productive team.
Launch a team effort effectively.
Lead your team skillfully.
Assess your team's performance.
Module 3:
Understand the benefits and challenges of virtual teams.
Create a strong foundation so that success is ensured.
Build a virtual community that promotes collaboration and ongoing communication.
Coach a team that you can't see.
Utilize technology to keep a virtual team organized, motivated, and productive.
Module 4:
Understand the unique value and challenges that come with a diverse workforce.
Manage diversity-related conflicts in your team.
Foster an inclusive work environment.
Leverage the advantages that diversity offers.
Recruit and retain diverse talent.
Communicate effectively with employees, partners, and customers from other cultures.