Leadership Training Programs

Corporate Team-Building

Today’s society is grounded in individual achievement.  While this mindset has empowered many people to do great things, it ignores a fundamental life skill: how to work well with others.  The result?  Detrimental effects in the workplace, like duplicated efforts, miscommunication, conflict, and errors.

But effective teams promote a diversity of perspectives and ideas, generating creative momentum.  They develop creative solutions to complex problems and discover innovative approaches.  Teamwork facilitates effective communication and creates synergy, where energy and ideas between people tap the creative resources of the entire group.  So the answer is to make employees work in teams, right?

Not exactly.  Building teamwork is a process that takes time and removes individuals from the traditional hierarchical structures, pulling them out of their comfort zone.  Just because you organize workers into teams doesn’t mean they will truly be working together.  They can – you just have to show them how.

That’s why we offer our leadership training team building seminar:

Recognizing the Value of the Team Approach

• What Makes a Team?  Arranging for employees to work on a project together does NOT constitute a team.  Participants learn how teams work – and how being part of a team benefits each individual.
• Team Building Your employees explore what it takes to form a cohesive, effective team with synergy.  Participants learn to work together and promote collaboration, with each person contributing his or her best resources and inspiring fellow team members as well.
• Problem Solving: Teamwork in Action Team members engage in a fun logic problem that inspires and requires teamwork.  The Zin Obelisk challenge is a memorable activity that will not only have your employees working together, but laughing and enjoying themselves in the process.

Pinpointing Your Mission and Goals

• Get Everyone on the Same Page When a great team comes together, great things can happen.  But without concise direction and a clear sense of purpose, your team will end up on different pages, leaving room for miscommunication, conflict, and low-level productivity.
• Set Great Goals Ambition isn’t what makes a goal great.  Once your team understands their mission, they can create goals that drive innovative solutions in a timely, effective manner.  Learn the six criteria that turn your existing (and future!) goals into ones that motivate the team.

Defining Roles and Responsibility

• Learning to Lead Teams Effective team leaders are one of the most important parts of successful teams.  Team leaders provide structure and direction for team members, holding them together and guiding them through every step of the project.  Without good leadership, teams can become distracted from goals and lose that priceless sense of togetherness.
• Exploring Roles within the Team Participants engage in an interactive exercise that allows them to understand roles that promote and block effectiveness.  This activity helps team members to identify which roles their strengths and weaknesses align with to better understand how each person can contribute to the team.
• Skill Practice: Facilitating a Team  Meeting Effective communication skills are essential to good teamwork.  In this activity, participants interact with each other in a team meeting with clear goals and expected outcomes to hone their ability to hold productive discussions and make collaborative decisions.  Afterwards, the team evaluates the meeting to learn what works – and what doesn’t.

Solving Problems and Seizing Opportunities

• Learning by Doing Your team will explore different techniques that facilitate problem solving in this leadership training session.  Participants learn how to use tools like brainstorming, storyboarding, mind mapping, and nominal group technique to flesh out innovative solutions.

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