U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

Collaborative models in Government, such as partnering, shared governance and communities of practice, are becoming increasingly common among Federal agencies. Both your career as well as your agency’s objectives can benefit from your ability to build and lead diverse, versatile and powerful teams.

In this seminar you will explore different kinds of workgroups and teams and learn to match the best group type to the task at hand. You will gain insights into personalities and the dynamics of group processes, encourage different viewpoints and build the commitment and trust essential to successful teams. An interactive, hands-on laboratory environment will allow you to experiment with a variety of decisionmaking models, negotiate and build sustainable agreements in multi-interest environments and design and deliver a project in which you leverage the capacity of your team or group to deliver outstanding value.

• Learn the advantages of teams and workgroups

• Understand your style within group relationships

• Gain facilitative skill and the ability to deal effectively with emotions

• Develop the insights and skills necessary to encourage different viewpoints, build trust and facilitate the emergence of shared meaning and common ground

• Explore effective group decision-making processes and problem-solving approaches that enhance team learning, dialogue and success

• Design effective and empowering delegation strategies

• Review and apply successful techniques to make meetings dynamic, creative, efficient and effective

All those who play a formal or informal leadership role in getting work done through teams and workgroups

 Those who seek to develop greater skill in working collaboratively and within communities of practice

• Team Building
• Developing Others
• Influencing/Negotiating
• Problem Solving
• Partnering