Managing Successful Teams

Course Description:

This training program is intended for people who facilitate short or long-term teams that work together on projects, planning and strategizing, process improvement, and so forth. Participants can be from within one organization or from several organizations. The program is based on the assumption that the facilitator's overall responsibility is to advance a team from forming to storming to norming and to performing (and sometimes adjourning).

Several strategies are discussed and experienced throughout the program. They focus on initial team building, discussion and dialogue, creative problem solving, conflict resolution, and building consensus.

Key objectives:

  • Examine the "team concept"
  • Understand the impact of team development stages on the facilitator's role
  • Experience and apply ways to help teams form successfully
  • Practice ways to stimulate discussion and dialogue
  • Practice ways to facilitate creative problem solving
  • Practice ways to manage controversy and conflict
  • Consider effective strategies in building consensus