Description:

This one-day course on leadership and teams in business covers an essential business skill.

Teams have long been recognised as offering the potential of large gains in productivity and efficiency. The working together in a collaborative and supportive environment can allow each team member to excel and produce more than they could if working separately. But it is not automatic that performance goes up when people are grouped together; in many cases performance actually reduce. The team therefore has to be managed and led; managed in terms of doing things in an organised and structured manner and led in terms of challenging the organisation to do it better.

The individuals for the teams and the need for the team have both to be identified. The people planning the membership of the team and the purpose of the team are the external leaders. There are many types of team: the internal of in-house teams and the external teams such as audit teams being the basic categorisations. Then there are other types of teams within each group. Some of these teams are exceptional performers and others are simply good performers. But without the management and leadership they require, all will be just groups of people working together.

The performance of the team is very much up to the team. The manner in which teams develop is related to their willingness to be productive. Therefore the environment which creates this willingness, which differs with each team, has to be recognised and understood. This is the nature of teams - a dynamic structure focused on people with a purpose and in a productive environment created by themselves with the help of others. It is the productivity which measures when a team is a team. The level of productivity measures the type of team.

Teams can be highly productive and effective if they are well conceived, set up, organised are led. The complexity of this whole process must be managed from the start and to the end. The benefits are huge.

An Attendance Certificate will be provided at the end of this skill course.

Vital Benefits:

Teams can be very beneficial in business because they can be developed for the purpose in hand. Teams help business managers manage complexity. This course provides you the following vital benefits:

• An understanding of the modern team concept
• Essential leadership of teams
• An understanding of the management of teams
• Forming teams and measuring performance
• Keeping teams productive
• Continuous motivation
• Reforming teams and keeping them relevant

Objectives:

The understanding of teams and the leadership of teams are vitally important in managing competitive advantage in business. Teams provide a dynamic resource in an ever changing business environment. Through this course it is our objectives to provide:

• A thorough understanding of what makes teams work and how they are managed
• A clear understanding of leadership as related to teams
• An understanding of how teams can be kept effective and relevant
• An understanding of the dynamics which can indicate team effectiveness – the performance
• A clear understanding of team roles
• The tools needed to create teams capable of high performance

Topics:

The coursed covers the following topics:

• Leadership
• Team roles and responsibilities
• Team objectives and other motivators
• Measurement of performance
• Communication for teams, managing conflict and essential negotiation
• Team Dynamics
• Different teams and structures
• High performing teams and their structure

Who to Attend:

Projects cannot succeed without successful teams. We would recommend the course to the following project people:

• Business leaders
• Business executives
• Business managers
• Marketing and sales managers
• Operations managers
• Line managers
• Those who make important decisions for the business
• Those who face the clients or customers
• Those who want to develop their business skills