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Leading High-Impact Teams

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Upcoming Sessions
  April 12-15, 2010
$ 5,600
  September 13-16, 2010
$ 5,600
   
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
Optimally structure team roles to maximize potential
  Resolve conflict and communicate creatively
Persuasively advocate change
Strategically network your team
Unlock the creative potential of your team
Create a positive and supportive team culture
You will also receive these tools specifically designed to improve your team-building performance, including:
A customized report comparing your team with thousands of others, based upon completion of an optional web-based survey prior to the program
A copy of Professor Thompson’s 2004 edition of Making the Team: A Guide for Managers
A workbook of team diagnostics and evaluation measures that will serve as a handy toolkit and resource for you in the future
   
"One breakthrough idea that I will employ immediately paid for the entire program!"

Engineering Manager, Unilever HPC USA
Academic Director Leigh Thompson
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Program Content
 

The Team Performance Equation

Evaluate your and your peers’ leadership and communication styles

Develop a “team performance analysis”

Four types of high-performing teams and three threats to team effectiveness

Optimizing the performance of virtual teams and teams that work across distances

Optimizing Team Development

Role analysis, process consultation techniques, high-performance team dynamics, and dealing with dilemmas

Creativity and Innovation

Brainstorming effectively

Sharpen convergent and divergent thinking skills

Effectively sell creative ideas in your organization

Leading in Teams

Create an environment conducive for “good conflict”

Understand the psychological challenges inherent in getting your team members to learn from one another

Illuminate how to get beyond agendas and opinions to reveal the real facts

Understand the real value of diversity in your teams

Managing Multicultural Teams

Understanding 3 key cultural style differences

Fusing cultural differences into effective teamwork

Leveraging cultural differences into high quality team decisions

Emotional Intelligence and Team Coaching

Assess your EQ versus your IQ

Develop a personal plan to increase your EQ

Improving your coaching skills

Creating a community of active communication

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