Description:

This one-day course on leadership and teams in general covers an essential general 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 suffers. 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.

Therefore the recognition must be that teams can have a great benefit but they also come at a cost. The fundamental cost is not just the cost of setting up but the possible deterioration of the general bureaucracy when you have teams pursuing change to suit themselves rather than pursuing excellence. For teams to develop, they must have the authority to influence their own environment, for this is where waste and inefficiency live, but therein lies the danger which teams can pose. Change and performance must be monitored constantly. Departments can develop a status quo based on good standards contained within a bureaucracy but this takes time to develop and can be expensive. Teams are released from parts of the bureaucracy and are temporarily seen to reduce waste in return for extra performance. However, this is temporary and can spin out of control if left unattended. Change and performance must be monitored constantly.

A balance must be found and actively maintained for teams to be continuously productive, without causing permanent damage to the general systems within the organisations.

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.

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