Team Alignment

Aim

Despite significant investment in organisation change programmes and skills and knowledge training, success is almost always limited by ineffective teamwork. This programme is designed to help teams and team members really work well together and focus all their energy on achieving outstanding results.

12 Key Benefits

1 Increased energy, focus, capability and results
2 Understand and recognise the characteristics of high performing teams
3 Evaluate current team performance, strengths and issues
4 Awareness of team processes and stages of development
5 Increased awareness of own preferences, strengths and needs
6 Understand others preferences, strengths and needs
7 Align goals, values and priorities
8 Improved communication and collaboration
9 Better working practices
10 Insights gained from team and self assessment tools
11 Practical experience gained through activities
12 Team and personal action plans

Programme

High performing teams
· Characteristics of high performing teams
· Team challenge – team exercise
· Team processes

Team Assessment
· Assess your personal preferences
· Assess team performance against critical success criteria
· How to use these insights and feedback

Team Alignment
· Agreeing clear goals and vision
· Identifying key values, priorities and motivators
· Creating alignment

Raising Awareness
· Understanding self and colleagues
· Underlying patterns and drivers
· Attitudes and beliefs
· Strengths and assets
· Needs of self and team

Empowering Behaviours
· Typical behaviours
· Behaviour under pressure
· Team dynamics
· Building empowering behaviours

Collaborative Relationships
· Building productive effective relationships
· Relating to others
· Different perspectives
· Handling conflict

Effective Communication
· Getting your message across
· Effective listening
· Empowering questions
· Positive language
· Communication preferences

Working practices
· Communication strategy
· Effective meetings
· Decision making
· Problem solving
· Team learning
· Innovation and creativity

Team leadership
· The role of leader
· Situational leadership
· Setting clear direction
· Facilitation
· Coaching and development
· Delegation

Integration and Action planning
· Personal action plans
· Team action plan

Style and Format

Facilitated to meet your needs, this programme is highly participative and will incorporate different elements of learning through practical experience, increased self-awareness, new skills and behaviours and leading edge thinking and techniques. There will be a mix of individual and team assessments, tutor input, individual and group activities, feedback and group discussion on practical applications.

Details

Tailored to meet your needs and availability