Courses for
Team Leadership Skills
Effective leaders inspire their teams to new levels of innovation and results. But without the skill and structure needed to guide the group’s action, teams can get mired in their own internal issues: people work their own agendas, ideas are shot down, problems have to be re-solved, and it takes a lot of energy to produce an inadequate result.
Most managers focus on the task of the team, not knowing that their success lies in managing the dynamics of the team as well. Team Leadership Skills gives leaders the skills to develop their teams and keep them productive by managing both task and dynamics. The result is full participation by members, better and faster decision-making, and a demonstrated commitment to team decisions.
LEARNING GOALS
In Team Leadership Skills, managers will learn a palette of skills they can use to:
- begin team meetings with power and focus;
- get meetings off tangents and back on track; • drill down to the core issues of any problem;
- get the full mindshare of the team when exploring and committing to solutions;
- encourage active, passionate involvement of all team members;
- harvest important insights and perspectives during conflict;
- minimize negative dynamics and use them as an opportunity to improve the team’s working relationships; and
- ensure that everyone’s clear and committed about critical next action steps.
REINFORCEMENT
All Ridge courses include a variety of reinforcement tools to help the participant apply the skills and to enroll the participant's manager in supporting skill use on the job. Click here for more details.
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