Leading Teams 

SGRI Copyright 2007

Understanding the dynamics in leading a team, the characteristics of an effective team, and the different team-player styles that make up a team is essential in the workplace.  Participants will explore these aspects of team building; discuss steps to building a team, and the stages of team development.  The challenge for leaders is to understand exactly what comprises a team and then how to effectively motivate and lead individual teams to organizational excellence, sometimes in work environments that recognize and reward individual accomplishment not team achievement. Leading Teams targets the following objectives:

• Define the characteristics of teams
• Identify why we should even concern ourselves with teams as an organizational element
• Identify the five phases of effective team leadership
• Identify four stages of team development
• Describe the use of teams in various work locations
• Create an action plan for increased teaming back home
• Identify one conflict situation in the workplace and work on a plan for successful resolution