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Team Building and Team Leadership

Fostering Commitment Toward Common Goals

Schedule
  • January 11 - 15, 2010 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO   $3500 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 11:30 AM on last day
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials.
  • May 3 - 7, 2010 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV   $3500 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 11:30 AM on last day
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials.
  • June 28 - July 2, 2010 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO   $3500 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 11:30 AM on last day
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials.
  • September 20 - 24, 2010 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO   $3500 REGISTER
    Starts 8:00 AM on 1st day ends 11:30 AM on last day
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials.
Overview

Government reform efforts have downsized and flattened organizations to manage work in new ways. This has generated team-oriented workplaces, new perspectives on leadership and a move toward distributed leadership that empowers decision-making at all levels. This presents a number of new challenges, however. This seminar will help you develop fundamental skills for effective team participation and leadership. You will learn to apply basic tools for fostering commitment, trust, diversity and synergy among teams to accomplish key organizational goals. In particular, the techniques you will learn in this seminar are extremely useful for organizations using work-unit, inter-organizational or project teams.

How You Will Benefit

  • Discern when teams are most appropriate
  • Explore how teams develop and what is needed to maximize their effectiveness
  • Strengthen the interpersonal and managerial skills critical to productive teamwork
  • Develop techniques to create a team identity, value diversity and encourage participation
  • Refine key team leadership skills such as using influence without authority through a variety of team exercises
  • Devise effective strategies to manage team conflict

Who Should Attend

Those who seek to improve their understanding of teamwork and their effectiveness working with teams