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Leadership

Team Building and Team Leadership

Fostering Commitment Toward Common Goals

Overview

Government reform has created downsized and flattened organizations that need to manage their work in new ways. The resulting growth of team-oriented workplaces and wider spans of control has created a whole host of new leadership challenges as well. This seminar will help you develop fundamental skills for effective team participation and leadership. You will learn to apply basic team processes and tools to foster commitment and trust, empower people to appreciate their differences and create synergy for accomplishing organizational goals. The techniques you will learn in this seminar are especially useful for organizations that use work-unit or project teams.
How Will You Benefit
  • Learn to discern when teams are most appropriate
  • Strengthen the interpersonal and managerial skills critical to productive teamwork
  • Develop techniques to create a team identity, to value and understand diversity and to encourage participation
  • Sharpen and reinforce key team leadership skills, including using influence without authority
  • Devise new strategies to manage team conflict
Who Should Attend

Team members, including leaders, facilitators and supervisors

Schedule
  • Jul 20 - 24, ‘09 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO Register
    $3,400.00
    Starts @ 8:00 am ends @ Noon on last day. Tuition includes materials, meals and lodging
  • Aug 31 - Sep 4, ‘09 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO Register
    $3,400.00
    Starts @ 8:00 am ends @ Noon on last day. Tuition includes materials, meals and lodging
  • Sep 21 - 25, ‘09 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $3,400.00
    Starts 8 a.m. on Monday and ends 11:30 a.m. on Friday. Tuition includes materials, meals and lodging
  • Nov 2 - 6, ‘09 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $3,500.00
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • Jan 11 - 15, ‘10 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO Register
    $3,500.00
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials.
  • May 3 - 7, ‘10 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $3,500.00
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials.
  • Jun 28 - Jul 2, ‘10 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO Register
    $3,500.00
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials.
  • Sep 20 - 24, ‘10 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO Register
    $3,500.00
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials.
Competencies Emphasized
  • Team Building
  • Leveraging Diversity
  • Influencing/Negotiating
  • Conflict Management
  • Interpersonal Skills

 
Length

1 week.

Locations
  • WMDC, Aurora, CO
  • EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV
College Credits

3 Hours/Undergraduate (Upper)

 
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