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General Performance Improvement
Online Course
Building and Maintaining Effective Teams
This seminar discusses the reasons enterprises have and continue to move toward team-based organizations. Understanding individual differences and harnessing the power of diversity, goal setting, conflict resolution, and meeting management will also be highlighted
Objectives:
- Understanding individual differences and harnessing the power of diversity as key team skills;
- Understand goal setting and how it requires milestones, measurements, and feedback systems. Successful teams use the goal system to affect these activities
- Identify reasons that communications top the list of successful organizational skills; conversely, when it doesn’t work, it tops the list of reasons for failure; To operate effectively, a team must be able to communicate effectively, both within and outside the team;
- Understanding the dynamics and types of decision making is a key to action for effective teams;
- Identify the sources of conflict and how conflict can be avoided or mediated;
- Understand problem solving as it relates to structured, factual action. Effective teams utilize thinking based on data-moving beyond emotion and gut feel;
- Develop and list skills and behaviors of a team in the management of team planning, behaviors, activities, etc. and understand that these are required skills needed to become and remain effective teams.
Instructor: Jim Clauson, an online course facilitator since 1994, has been using these techniques as a business manager and consultant for 20 years.
Schedule:
Our online courses span a two-month period beginning the first of each month and continuing through the last day of the second month.
Registrants will receive an email confirmation with instructions for accessing their course.
Fee: $99