Team Leadership Effectiveness Program 'Team Top Gun'	QuickCode: QQATVG
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		Upcoming Dates *Click on a Date to Sign Up May 19-21 · SAN DIEGO, CA Jun 23-25 · IRVINE, CA Jul 14-16 · SEATTLE, WA Sep 22-24 · CHICAGO, IL Oct 20-22 · CITY TBA, VA Nov 10-12 · SAN DIEGO, CA

	Provider: Effectiveness Dimensions, Inc. $2,295  Topic: Leadership & Management > Team Building General Overview: An intensive three day seminar using psychological profiles, 360 degree feedback, extensive experiential simulations, and state of the art content relating to success in team based organizations. Keywords: team, teams, team building, team-building, team leaders, team leadership, team facilitation, team members, groups. Fee per person: $2295. Who Should Attend? All levels of management but primarily director, manager, supervisor We Also Recommend: · Leadership and Team Development for Managerial Success

Detailed Overview/Outline

Pre-Program Assessment
Prior to the program, each participant receives a packet of forms, questionnaires and instruments. Completing these instruments requires the participant to begin a process of self assessment, introspection and examination. A major piece of the instrument package is The Executive Effectiveness Profile-a set of questionnaires to be completed anonymously by the participant's boss, team members and peers. These questionnaires cause the participant to directly consider the impact which he or she, as a leader and manager, is having on key people. The other part of the pre-program assessment is a battery of psychometric instruments which get at a broad range of motives, needs and behaviors.

Day One
Leadership Strategy - Presentation

Intense competition has placed demands upon leaders to shorten product development cycles, increase quality, decrease cost and maximize employee involvement. This session presents the rationale for the switch to a leadership perspective and a strategy for tying the concepts together into a coherent framework.

Leadership Tactics - Exercise/Discussion

Using an interactive exercise, participants confront challenges facing today's managers in the areas of policy and program implementation. Participants learn to balance task effectiveness and efficiency with the need to generate commitment in team members.

Interpersonal Effectiveness/Conflict Handling - Presentation/Discussion

Using information provided by the Interpersonal Preferences Profile, participants learn about their predominant interpersonal style and its impact on motivation, presentation effectiveness and conflict management.

Life Styles Inventory - Instrument Analysis

Participants receive feedback on 12 dimensions of personality which affect leadership effectiveness. Then participants learn a model to increase the use of four constructive dimensions and minimize the use of four passive defensive and four aggressive defense styles.

Team Facilitation - Exercise/Discussion

Participants are challenged to select a general manager for an operation from seven candidates. The exercise focuses on the critical role of team facilitator and outlines productive and dysfunctional aspects of team operations.

Leadership Assumptions - Exercise and Debrief

Participants challenge their assumptions about leadership against the consensus of a wide Body of research. Participants experience team facilitation issues, group dynamics, team synergy and consensus decision issues.

Executive Effectiveness Profile - Instrument Analysis

Each participant receives a detailed 360º look at his/her effectiveness in the eyes of the boss, team members and peers from back at the workplace. This process is a course highlight which forces participants to consider characteristics which currently contribute to his/her leadership effectiveness and suggestions for future change.

Day Two
The Value of Team Member Diversity/TAIS Instrument Analysis - Instrument Analysis

Participants learn of their attention and interpersonal style preferences via the TAIS profile receiving an extensive computerized analysis of a wide variety of personality characteristics. Diversity of styles in teams has been proven to be a major factor in team success. Dr. Bob Neideffer's attentional model looks at the major styles of aware, conceptual, and focused as well as three likely attentional errors-external distractibility, internal distractibility and reduced flexibility.

Election To The Senate - Exercise and Debrief

As newly elected Senators of the United States, participants must fulfill their promises and meet the needs of their people in an exiting simulation revolving around internal customer Service. The interaction of communication and trust with organization structure provides focal points for discussion.

Team Building - Presentation

The focus is on the stages high performing teams move through and the challenges which must be overcome as well as a five-step team development process.

Employee Development - Presentation/Discussion

This important section covers methods for diagnosing the development level of associates and choosing the most appropriate style of supervision. Participants also learn an empowerment by objectives system as a way of using the system in the workplace. A counseling analysis model for dealing effectively with poor performance is also covered as is a template for associate career development.

Lost Mines - Exercise and Debrief

One of the most exiting and challenging simulations ever created, teams must wisely manage their limited resources in a pressure-packed and hostile environment. Exercise highlights the critical nature of situation diagnostics, planning, goal setting, decision-making and leadership.

Day Three
Project Leadership - Exercise/Discussion

Participants are tasked with planning a project and selling their ideas to their peers in an interactive simulation. Concepts of team synergy emerge when participants learn to focus on team structure and process.

ALPHA ENERGY Computerized Simulation - Exercise

For over six hours, participants engage in one of the most stimulating and challenging exercises ever developed. Participants form 3 competing companies starting with identical products and market share. They must attempt to meet the mission of becoming a certified subcontractor of ALPHA ENERGY by successfully performing as a team and scoring 100 points relating to task-based objectives. The computer-driven simulation highlights the importance of mission clarity, dealing with competing priorities , role definition, group process, working under pressure, the impact of planning on performance, risk assessment and risk management, and the need for consistent execution of a coherent strategy.

Sponsor Background:
Effectiveness Dimensions, Inc. is a San Diego based organization effectiveness consulting and training firm founded in 1985. We serve an impressive group of corporations and governmental institutions in the following areas:

• Assessment Instrument Sales/Scoring
• Leadership Development Programs-Public and Custom
• Organization Effectiveness Consulting:
• Culture Change
• Team Building
• Value Statement Development
• Managerial Candidate Assessment
• Team Building Simulations
• Problem Solving Facilitation

Instructor(s):
Dr John W. Hanes

Instructor Background:
Dr John W. Hanes, President, Effectiveness Dimensions, Inc. a San Diego based consulting firm. Dr. Hanes has designed and conducted leadership development programs for thousands of managers in Fortune 500 organizatons, start up companies and the military.

Dr. Hanes has extensive experience in managerial roles inside leading banking, retail and manufacturing organizations such as International Paper and Caterpillar. He holds an Ed. D. in Leadership from University of San Diego. He has received frequent recognition for his performance as a developer of leaders. He is a sought after speaker to executive groups and is noted for his focus on "real world" application of concepts. Dr. Hanes has authored a wide variety of assessment/feedback instruments including the Executive Effectiveness Profile, Performance Effectiveness Profile, Interpersonal Effectiveness Profile, and Team Effectiveness Profile.

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