Leading High Performing Teams

Overview

Business today is constantly striving to attain sustainable growth. Business processes, models, ideas, goals and everyday tasks are easy to plan. What is difficult is leading and managing people through execution and achieving sustainable growth. Leading people is probably the most difficult task in business, but vital to sustainability. So what makes it difficult? The people! People change every day; there is no certainty. They come with emotions, feelings and attitudes just to mention a few. Leading successful performance excellence programs requires you to train people, manage teams, lead and provide guidance, so understanding people will greatly aid your performance excellence efforts.

In BMGI’s Leading High-Performing Teams Workshop, you will learn the tools that will help you to lead teams more effectively. You will get a chance to share your experiences and reflect on your own leadership style, and you will create a plan to start to mould your leadership style.

This workshop is designed to give you an opportunity to share your successful and challenging experiences, and practice the skills to become better leaders. The data is compelling that holistic, effective cross-functional teams are significantly more likely to produce better business results. Of the best performance companies, 65.5 percent show good crossfunctional cooperation on project teams, whereas only 24 percent of the worst performance companies do. Organizations with high performing teams significantly outperform their peers by effectively leveraging the capability and experience of each individual team member.

How can companies unleash the potential of people to create highperforming teams? BMGI’s High-Performing Team methodology is designed to empower people to achieve innovation success.

Very relevant to managers as a general skill, can be used in everyday environment, both personal and professional.

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Course Description
A leader who leads high-performing teams is successful because he or she can put the following principles into practice:

• The stages of team development
• The types of teams
• The role of the team leader
• Conflict styles
• Leadership value
• Motivating people

Leading High-Performing Teams will provide you with the opportunity to put these into practice by using examples and roleplaying. This workshop will also introduce a few key aspects of leading teams effectively and getting the most out of your teams. For example, a critical aspect of leading high-performing teams are the essential skills of a team leader. In this workshop you will identify what these skills are and practice each one of them.

Course Objectives

• Identify essential skills of a team leader
• Identify the stages of teams
• Understand your own behaviour style and how this impacts a team
• Practice listening, questioning and directing skills
• Develop goals, roles, procedures & build relationships to manage teams
• Discover your natural role in a team
• Practice coaching skills
• Practice response techniques for handling conflict
• Practice effective meeting techniques
• Identify tips on giving feedback

Course at a glance

Prerequisites

• Completion of a DiSC profile
• Assigned reading

Course length

• 5 consecutive days

Course includes

• DiSC behavior profile assessment
• TKI conflict mode assessment
• Book: Our Iceberg Is Melting – John Kotter

Appropriate for

Anyone who manages or leads a team of two or more people at any level.

This course is delivered in a workshop environment where delegates participate in powerful games, exercises, evaluations, practice sessions and meaningful interactions. Learning how to deal with difficult situations and working through role-playing to coach difficult situations proves to be one of the most powerful learning tools on this workshop. The hands-on experiences—along with the knowledge you’ll learn—will equip you to deal with the nanticipated issues faced with teams today. The course provides plenty of opportunities to link to real challenges and conditions that you’ll encounter, and it also ensures that you focus on the specific plans and actions you’ll need to implement after you leave the classroom.

This Leading High-Performing Teams course is conducted by expert BMGI instructors who give you individual attention and mentoring, in addition to general instruction. Be prepared to get involved and truly experience the learning.

Module 1:
Works through the behavior styles of each team member and how to use this to improve communication and conflict resolution. A DiSC profile, a personal assessment tool, will be conducted for each individual.

Module 2:
Works through the characteristics of teams, phases of teams and leadership styles required to lead high-performing teams.

Module 3:
Gives insight into how to direct a forming team. You will practice foundation skills of listening and questioning and learn a key tool, called GRPR (Goals, Roles, Procedures, Relationships).

Module 4:
Shows you how to gain self-awareness into your own conflict style and learn how to coach a storming team. A tool called the Thomas Kilman Instrument (TKI) will be used to indentify each individuals own conflict style and how to use this effectively within a team.

Module 5:
Focuses on preparing for meetings, facilitating meetings and dealing with difficult behaviours during meetings. You will apply what you learned here from the DiSC and TKI tools.

Module 6:
Builds on previous learnings and teaches you how to empower a performing team and how to give feedback and recognition.