Learn the skills rated
"most critical" by veteran team leaders
This seminar
gets right down to business. It's a "here's what to do — and
the best way to do it" crash course for new team leaders.
We designed this
seminar with input from veteran team leaders at organizations across
the country. You'll explore the issues they believed were most critical in
their own team development.
Critical skills like
these ...
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Getting off
on the right foot with a new team |
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Making sure
team meetings are worthwhile — and not just time-wasting get-togethers |
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Understanding
the leader's role when conflicts erupt or there's infighting on
your team |
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Knowing how
to invest your time and effort for the biggest payback |
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Keeping your
team members focused and enthused — especially in the early stages
when everything is confusing |
Their input was
just what we hoped for: refreshingly honest. Revealing. Insightful. Even surprising
at times.
The upshot of
all this ...
You
get a program packed with the leadership training and insights you'll need to
guide your team through its infancy to full maturity as an effective
work unit.
Will you benefit
from attending this course?
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Yes,
if you're new to teams (or if a team is new to you) |
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Yes
, if you're a team leader trapped in a manager's mentality
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Yes, if you're
part of a team that's going nowhere — and nobody seems to know
why |
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Yes
, if you feel your leadership skills
have hit a plateau or aren't in tune with the times |
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Yes, if all this talk about
leading teams vs. managing people
has you
curious about what you should be doing differently |
No matter what kind of team you
lead, plan now to attend this course. You'll learn how to get the most out of your
people — and discover what they expect from you in return.
You'll gain "how-to's"
that are essential in today's team-oriented workplace ...
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How
to develop trust and teamwork
Find out what it takes to get people who were put together to
pull together. |
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How
to nurture team identity and commitment
Learn why
the best teams invest so much time and energy on defining their purpose
and mission. |
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How
to help your team solve problems and make decisions
You'll see how to step back gradually to allow your team to reach
its own conclusions and map its own actions. |
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How to
manage conflict and resolve differences
See why it's so valuable to encourage open and honest debate —
and how to do it without causing harm or creating enemies. |
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How
to keep your team fresh and growing
Discover techniques that can motivate your team to take on bigger
challenges and more responsibility as it matures. |
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How to capitalize on the freedom that a well-run team creates
for its leader
You'll see how
becoming
an effective leader lets you focus more of your time on the
"big issues" facing your organization — and less on the
day-to-day matters. |
Who should attend?
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Newly appointed leaders of any team |
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Current
team leaders with no previous training |
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Leaders
whose teams have stalled — or have never functioned as a true
team |
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Classic managers itching to learn team-specific skills (motivation,
consensus building, team problem-solving, peacekeeping, goal setting, and
group dynamics) |
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Team
members themselves, especially those looking to move up into positions of
leadership |
Seminar Overview
Building trust and teamwork
You'll discover how to ...
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Deal with
the anxieties, doubts, and self-questioning every new team goes
through |
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Rally
your troops when they start to falter
or tire of being a team |
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Make sure
workloads and responsibilities are equally shared |
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Measure and
monitor your team's trust — in itself and in you |
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Set the
kind of personal and
professional examples your team can admire and emulate |
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Define
team roles so everyone's clear about "who does what" |
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Run razor-sharp
meetings — and see that follow-through happens so things get done
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Fostering team
identity and commitment
You'll learn creative ways to ...
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Use
performance challenges to
build team loyalty and genuine "esprit de corps" |
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Challenge
people to go the extra mile — and enjoy every step of it |
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Create
collective purpose that encourages teammates to pull
together
through thick and thin |
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Keep your
team persevering despite setbacks or slowdowns |
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Celebrate
successes to strengthen team commitment |
Working as a
team — a team
leader's tool kit
Among the areas you'll explore ...
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How to know when
you can comfortably transfer decision-making power to your team |
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The 7 essential
steps to usher a team toward true consensus |
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3
techniques to help you identify — and solve — the most pressing problems
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How to recognize
the signs of "groupthink" — and prevent your team from falling
into this trap |
Helping your
team get through strife, gripes and group disagreements
Learn skills that enable you to ...
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Help your team draw dissension into the open — and deal with
it honestly and productively |
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Understand the
6 main sources of team conflict |
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Use a
3-stage process to map your personal plan for
changing team conflict into creative opportunities |
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Rechannel the
negative energy of arguments, differing opinions, and opposing
viewpoints into a positive team force |
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Break
deadlocks peacefully and
productively |
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Recognize
when the time has come to step back from direct involvement and
let your team settle its own differences |
"Growing"
your team
Learn strategies to help you ...
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Capitalize on the individual
skills of each team member |
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Move your team toward
more self-leadership and less dependence on you |
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Teach and encourage
innovative — even breakthrough — thinking |
Making the move
from team leader to big-picture strategist
Learn "forward thinking" skills that will enable you
to ...
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Build flexibility and adaptability in
your team — key qualities of any successful group |
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Take overdue action on
"back-burnered" projects |
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Foster a "team-friendly"
workplace environment throughout your organization |
To find out
more about How to Lead a Team,contact our customer service department at customerservice@pryor.com
or by phone at (800) 780-8476.
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