Duration 3 Day Workshop

Time          9:00 AM to 4.30 PM with a 45 minute break for lunch

Purpose

This workshop is designed to enable participants to improve their personal effectiveness, understand how a team works, the different team roles and stages of team formation and ways to improve team working. It is highly participative, very practical and uses exercises for guided reflection. The syndicate working simulates situations for practice and provides opportunities to receive peer and tutor feedback, on skills and behaviour used.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Relate the learning of this workshop to their own individual work team
• State the benefits of effective team working
• Demonstrate an understanding of the link between teams, team building and clear leadership
• Identify their own preferred leadership style and select the appropriate leadership style for given situations
• Identify own Belbin’s team roles and which ones would be most effective in given situations
• Identify the different learning styles and select which style benefits most / least in given situations
• Identify development activities an individual could undertake and state how coaching could benefit the team
• State the purpose of giving feedback and how to do this effectively.

Suitable for:

Managers at all levels who wish to improve their understanding of teams, the importance of effective team working and how to change a team’s effectiveness. It would be useful to be able to practice the learning points after the course closure.

Prerequisites:

Participants need to be clear about what they specifically want to achieve and how it will improve their effectiveness. A willingness to openly participate in a safe environment is essential. An appreciation of basic management would be useful.