Building High Performance Project Teams

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Detailed Overview/Outline

About the Program
How to Win Meaningful Collaboration and Commitment

Your leadership abilities will be enhanced in a major way with two powerful techniques. First, you’ll discover how to build 100% team participation, commitment and buy-in in less than two days to even the most complex project plans. The second technique shows you how to find the secrets to selling your ideas and building action plans that drive quick implementation and sure results.

Today, team leaders cannot succeed by simply demanding performance. Multi-tasking gives team members the perfect excuse for failing to meet commitments. By mastering these skills, your stress level will decrease. You will build your ability to influence people and decisions in a way that is positive to you, your organization and the people you work with.

The goal of this course it to provide you with the skills to properly lead and/or participate in productive project teams. You will identify the key processes and skills necessary for successful high-performance teams.

Prerequisite: Good understanding of project management

Course Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Who Should Attend
This 2-day workshop is designed for project and team leaders, executives, supervisors, managers, union leaders, program managers and anyone who wants to be more successful in working with others.

Focus on Practical Skills

• Build a high-commitment plan by recognizing team member obstacles and turning them into a road map to success
• Practice new group facilitation skills that drive positive participation and support from all team members
• Build an action plan that fosters buy-in
• Learn how to keep your foot out of your mouth by thinking before speaking
• Recognize when the conditions are right for action and when they are not

What You Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:

• Describe the fundamentals of high-performance teams.
• Explain the purpose of the team charter and how it helps to organize the project team.
• Describe how to properly plan and conduct effective team meetings.
• Identify techniques to enhance problem-solving skills within the team environment.
• Explain the elements of team discipline and how they contribute to successful teams.
• Create a climate for team success.

Course Overview
Getting Started

• Course overview
• Course goal
• Course objectives
• Introductions

Fundamentals of High-Performance Teams

• Definition of a team and its purposes
• Types of teams
• Benefits and barriers for teams
• Selecting team members
• Stages of team development
• Team learning
• Leadership styles

The Team Charter

• Team charter
• Team’s purpose
• Characteristics of the team
• Operating norms
• Roles and responsibilities
• Team decision-making process
• Performance results of the team
• Team’s key customers and stakeholders

Effective Team Meetings

• Characteristics of effective meetings
• Creating a meeting policy
• Guidelines on meetings
• How to run a meeting from an agenda
• Leadership roles for meetings
• Meeting minutes
• Improving the quality of meetings

Enhancing Problem Solving in Teams

• Model for team problem solving
• Identifying problems
• Decision tools
• Evaluating a solution
• Choosing a solution
• Problems in team decisions
• Evaluating decision outcomes
• Methods for creative decisions

Team Discipline – Making it Work

• Building trust within the project team
• Number of team members
• Matching team members skills
• Common purpose, goals, and approach
• Mutual and individual accountability
• Assessing feedback from customers
• Measuring and tracking team deliverables
• Working with virtual teams and across cultures

Creating a Climate for Team Success

• Preparing your organization for successful teams
• Properly using rewards and recognition
• Understanding motivation and behavior
• Recognizing individual needs and differences
• Identifying and utilizing team member strengths
• Dealing with conflict
• Role of the team leader and effective team leadership

Recap & Closing

2 Days

14 PDUs / 1.4 CEUs

Sponsor Background:
International Institute for Learning, Inc. is the world center for The Kerzner Approach to Project Management Excellence and the pre-eminent vendor in Project Management training.

International Institute for Learning, Inc. is committed to offering its clients the very best state of the art learning tools, executive development and management training programs, The Project Management Certificate Program, the faster track to certification, industry conferences, public seminars, and distance learning/business satellite broadcasts. International Institute for Learning, Inc. also provides expert consulting services and professionally customized, on-site personnel training and development programs.

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