Introduction:
Teamwork is one of the qualities that managers and heads repeatedly try to instill in the people they work with in order to ensure seamless and effective operations.
Teamwork and Cooperation is the ability to work cooperatively within diverse teams, workgroups and across the organization to achieve group and organizational goals. It includes the desire and ability to understand and respond effectively to other people from diverse backgrounds with diverse views.
This training course explores the nature and benefits of innovative and collaborative teams Increasingly, companies see innovation and collaboration as a key source of competitive advantage, with benefits for motivation and engagement and developing talent, as well as a team and organizational performance. However, achieving these benefits places new demands on leaders, and requires new leadership practices.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this Advanced Teamwork and Cooperation Skills Course, learners will be able to do:
Appraise the key features and benefits of innovative and collaborative teams
Create the right environment for innovation and collaboration
Asses their team’s current and aspired innovation and collaboration skills and create an appropriate development plan
Evaluate key approaches for creating the right environment for innovation and collaboration
Examine common approaches to developing shared purposes and goals
Apply leadership practices which inspire and support team innovation, collaboration and success
Who Should Attend?
Advanced Teamwork and Cooperation Skills Training course, is ideal for:
Leaders and managers who have responsibility for team performance or for developing team skills and capabilities
Additionally, HR and Learning and Development professionals with responsibility for developing organizational skills and capabilities
Course Outlines:
The Benefits of Innovation and Collaboration
The nature of innovation
Collaboration vs. competition
Learned behaviors
Innovative and collaborative teams
The innovative and collaborative team mindset
Building the Innovative and Collaborative Team
Innovative and collaborative team values
High performance goals and metrics
Innovation and collaborative skills
Appraising team skills
Designing a team development program
Creating the Right Environment for Innovation and Collaboration
The new role of leadership
Individual creative work
Individual strengths and blind spots
Trust and communication
Recognition and feeding forward
Productive conflict: a source of creativity and team cohesion
Inspiring Shared Purposes and Common Goals
Individual preferences and goals
Developing a team picture of success
‘Force field’ analysis
Strategic priority areas
Monitoring progress and achievement
Leadership Practices for Innovative and Collaborative Teams
Guiding principles: drawing on great experiences
Communication with and within your team
Team gatherings
Team decisions and the leader’s decision-making process
Personal and team accountability
Developing a personal and team action plan