This interactive and innovative program is designed to help leaders develop strategies for improving the performance of all their teams. Today, businesses rely on teams more than ever to meet increasingly challenging goals. However, few leaders have a clear understanding of best practices for getting their team to consistently exceed expectations. The strategies and tools learned in this executive education program help participants increase their effectiveness at designing and leading all types of teams, including executive teams, task forces, virtual teams, and cross-functional teams.
Ideal Audience
The High Performing Teams program is designed for (1) teams seeking to increase their available skillset, (2) team leaders seeking to move their team to a higher level of performance, and (3) senior executives with an interest in expanding teamwork throughout their organization
Objectives
Participants will learn to:
- Reduce coordination costs and speed time to high-quality team decisions
- Effectively leverage team knowledge for new tasks
- Recognize and overcome common group decision-making biases
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Align team efforts with client and organization demands
Main Topics
Understanding the drivers of high team performance
- Creating a mental map of team effectiveness
- Focusing team members with clear meaningful goals and appropriate boundary management
- Motivating team members to identify with team goals
- Developing team member skills to increase future performance
Creating conditions for team member success
- Aligning team resources with task and situational demands
- Building a dynamic situated expertise tool to manage knowledge resources
- Developing a culture of team innovation
Making high-quality team decisions
- Identifying and overcoming common group decision making biases
- Using structured group decision making tools
- Learning from previous team decision-making processes
Unique team challenges
- Launching and leading:
o Virtual teams
o Cross-functional taskforces
o International teams
o Teams in high velocity environments
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