Leading High Performance Teams

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"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - Henry Ford

Team Building and Team Performance

Simply put, a team is a group of people who are mutually dependent on one another to achieve a common goal; but in a modern work environment an employee may belong to more than one team and is just as likely to operate as part of a virtual team.

Organisations are changing from relying on individuals to perform discrete tasks to utilising high performance teams that accomplish work interdependently. It is therefore essential that employees and managers alike, know how to work effectively in teams.

At Self Leadership International we provides team building workshops, psychometric testing and group coaching to develop high performing teams.

The focus of our team building and team dynamics programme is on facilitation, self-awareness and fun experiential learning to create both the knowledge and behaviours of a high performing team.

Unlike many 'adventure type' team-building training's, our workshops create a direct relationship to the workplace and are suitable for participants of all ages, fitness and genders. We can 'blend' a team building training to include a combination of outdoor and indoor activities to maximise the fun, participation and learning.

Team Dynamics

According to Bruce Tuckman (1965) teams are formed, go through a period of storming, establish norms and then perform. In a modern fast-paced team dynamic there are four phases of the work cycle: Generating Ideas, Evaluation, Decision Making and Implementation.

Individual personalities within a team will have a natural aptitude for one or more of these phases and therefore put more effort in. By utilising a personality profile before the team building workshop, we can explore individual differences and how team members can work together to be more productive.

The advantage of understanding individual personality and team dynamics lead to:

1. Better input from team members at the idea generating stage increasing creativity leads to better ideas and decisions.
2. Involvement of everyone in team communication leading to greater ownership and buy-in.
3. More considered evaluation of team ideas resulting in reduced risk of overlooking pitfalls.
4. Better decision making based on multiple perspectives and shared information.
5. Improved execution (implementation) by leveraging people's strengths and accommodating weaknesses.

Team Building Workshop format

Typically a team building / Team Dynamics workshop will be held over 2-days. After some initial 'ice breaking activities', the trainer will facilitate understanding of the key principles. Each of the above principles will be then experienced and learned through an interactive game, challenge or activity. Each principle is then de-briefed and translated into workplace behaviour. At the end of the workshop, participants commit to working as a team.

Follow up group coaching is an option to further develop the attitude and skills learned at the workshop.

Participants will learn and practice the principles of high performing teams including:

1. Setting clear goals
2. Defining individual roles
3. Communicating clearly and openly
4. Making effective decisions
5. Balancing participation
6. Valuing diversity
7. Managing conflict
8. Creating a positive atmosphere
9. Developing cooperative relationships
10. Utilising participative leadership

Building Teams, Developing Teams and getting Teams to Perform is what Leadership is all about.

Contact us now to learn about a customised Leading High Performance Teams program.

We are based in Singapore but conduct programmes for our clients in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India and the Middle East.