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Leadership

Developing High Performing Teams

Demystifying the

Overview

This is an advanced seminar for experienced team leaders and team members who want to enhance their ability to develop powerful, high-performance teams within and among organizational units. With the practical tools this experiential seminar provides, you will explore how to revitalize and motivate teams, help teams respond to change, launch new or merged teams, “jump-start” ad hoc teams, manage multiple alliances and lead collaborative efforts among organizational units or agencies.

You will learn strategies for optimizing organizational effort, tapping the synergy inherent in individual differences and creating teams that meet ever-increasing demands for excellence and innovation.
How Will You Benefit

  • Differentiate team function levels and identify key elements that characterize high-performance teams

  • Gain techniques to assess your current team’s effectiveness and needs, as well as your own leadership qualities

  • Learn to use “how-to” tools for team development

  • Discern when teams are most appropriate

  • Create a positive team culture in which members are invested in one another’s success, manage different perspectives, strengthen team leadership skills and work more effectively with underperforming or “problem” team members

  • Apply seminar lessons back home to develop current or future teams
Who Should Attend

Experienced team leaders and team members (participating in work unit or cross-functional teams) interested in strengthening teamwork
Schedule
  • Sep 21 - 25, ‘09 @ WMDC, Denver, CO Full
    $3,800.00
    Starts at 8:00 am on 1st day and ends 12:00 pm on last
  • Mar 29 - Apr 2, ‘10 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $3,900.00
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • May 17 - 21, ‘10 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO Register
    $3,900.00
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
  • Aug 23 - 27, ‘10 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO Register
    $3,900.00
    Cost includes food, lodging and course materials
Note
Tuition includes food, lodging and course materials
Competencies Emphasized
  • Team Building
  • Leveraging Diversity
  • Conflict Management
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Partnering
Length

1 week.

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

2 Hours/Undergraduate (Upper)

 
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