Developing Your Team - Teamwork From Forming To Performing

A Team Building Guide - How To Build A High Performing Self-Directed Team - A Teamwork Guide

What you'll learn

They will learn the essentials of forming a team and leading that team to high performance

They will learn how to develop a team charter.

They will develop a team scorecard to serve as the foundation of motivation.

The student will initiate problem solving and continuous improvement.

Requirements

The desire to form a great team.

The desire to initiate the process of bringing a team to a state of high performance.

Description

Your team's performance is your performance! Getting off to a good start is essential to team performance! This course will help you lead your team through the common stages from forming to performing, with less of the common "storming" as your team seeks a mature level of self-management. When taking responsibility for a team a leader is faced with a basic challenge: forming a group of individuals into a unified and motivated team that can focus on performance and problem solving to improve business performance. Creating this unified effort, focused on measurable performance, and able to make decisions and take action in a timely manner is the challenge of every leader with a new team. This course is designed to present the essential skills and tasks that will achieve this goal. Lean or agile culture and organizations are built on the foundation of high performing teams. Leaders who succeed are those who have mastered the skills of coaching and developing thier teams to maturity. The instructor has been leading teams and training teams for the past forty five years in dozens of Fortune 500 companies, as well as his own company. He  has worked with Honda, Honeywell, Shell Oil, Corning, and dozens of other leading companies. He is the author of ten books on teamwork, leadership and lean management.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Course Purpose and Objectives

Lecture 3 Types of Teams

Lecture 4 Activity 1: Defining Your Team

Section 2: Characteristics of High Performing Teams and Cultures

Lecture 5 A Brief History of Work Groups

Lecture 6 Characteristics of High Performing Teams and Cultures

Lecture 7 Activity 2: Assessing Our Team Culture

Section 3: Organizing Your Team

Lecture 8 Developing Your Team Charter

Lecture 9 Activity 3: Developing Your Team Charter

Lecture 10 Team Roles and Responsibilities

Lecture 11 The Agenda

Lecture 12 Small Things that Make a Difference

Lecture 13 Action Planning and Accountability

Lecture 14 Activity 4: Developing Roles and Agenda

Section 4: Stages of Team Development

Lecture 15 Forming to Performing

Lecture 16 The Maturity Matrix and the Leader's Role

Lecture 17 Activity 5: Assessing Your Team's Maturity

Section 5: Who Makes What Decision, How?

Lecture 18 Decisions From Command to Consensus

Lecture 19 Activity 6: How Will We Make Decisions

Section 6: Keeping Score and Motivation

Lecture 20 Keeping Score and Playing the Game

Lecture 21 Visual Display and the Balanced Scorecard

Lecture 22 Activity 7: Developing Your Scorecard

Section 7: Solving Problems and Continuous Improvement

Lecture 23 A philosophy of Problem Solving

Lecture 24 The PDCA Problem-Solving Model

Lecture 25 Activity 8: Using the PDCA Model

Section 8: Team Building and Summary

Lecture 26 On Team Building Activities

Lecture 27 Summay

Lecture 28 Bonus Lecture and Additional Resources

Team Leaders, or those desiring to become team leaders