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“Together everyone achieves more.”

-- Who knows, but it makes sense!

“Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results.”

-- Successories poster

“Effective teams are a necessary part of any high performance organization.”

-- Kevin McManus, the Systems Guy

 

"Facilitating and Leading Teams"

How to Improve Your Team Facilitation and Leadership Skills

Two Day Workshop Contents

Day One
Introduction and Expectations
Practice Exercise #1 - Defining Workshop Expectations
The Importance of Ground Rules and Agendas
Practice Exercise #2 - Defining Exercise Ground Rules
How Do You Prefer to Communicate With Others?
Practice Exercise #3 - Defining Communication Preferences
Exploring the Group Process and Group Dynamics
Practice Exercise #4 - The Cash Register Exercise
Basics of Group Facilitation
Practice Exercise #5 - "Who Stays Behind?" Exercise
 
Day Two
How to Raise Group Interaction Levels
Practice Exercise #6 - Space Survival Exercise
The Basics of Team Effectiveness
Practice Exercise #7 - Defining Team Performance Measures
Common and Uncommon Group Facilitation Tools
Practice Exercise #8 - Reaching Consensus on Key Decisions Exercise
A Process Focused Approach for Improving Meeting Effectiveness
Practice Exercise #9 - "What Should We Do?" Exercise
Planning for Skill Application After the Workshop
Practice Exercise #10 - Action Planning Exercise

The “Facilitating and Leading Team Events” workshop is designed to help team leaders improve their personal team facilitation and leadership skills in a high impact way. By participating in this workshop, each person will repeatedly practice and evaluate their personal use of high impact team skills, in addition to learning more effective ways to get the most out of team events. By learning to become more effective team leaders and facilitators, each participant will return to work with the skills necessary to reduce significant meeting waste, improve group dynamics, and increase the output of their improvement team and team communication efforts.

Would you like to learn more about pursuing process excellence?

Click on one of the following links to learn even more about how this workshop or about other ways you can accelerate the pursuit of process excellence in your organization:

Workshop overview
Keys to Team Effectiveness Workbook
Other Great Systems Workshops
Other Great Systems Workbooks
Overcoming Meeting Madness article
Great Systems! home page

 

“The only thing I know is that I do not know it all.” -- Socrates

 
Copyright © 2008, Great Systems!
Last Revised - September 6, 2008
For more information, pricing, or to place an order, please contact me at: kevin@greatsystems.com