Highlights
Mutual respect and value enhance a team's performance
Setting up performance indicators helps to drive smooth operations
Objectives
- Enhanced skill for gauging a team's performance without micromanaging
- Capacity to know how and when to put the team back on track if necessary
Learning Tools
- Examination and discussion of case scenarios
- Live preparation and collaboration
- Role plays, simulations, improvisation
- Self-examination, peer/trainer feedback
Take-aways
- Solid foundation for overseeing a profitable cross-functional team
- Tools and checklist for future use
Prerequisite
- Choosing and Appointing Optimal Teams or equivalent experience
- Highly recommended: Quality Feedback for Improved Performance; Soft Skills & Your Managerial Style; Collaborating with an International Team; Conflict: Tapping Potential & Limiting Fallout
Seminar Essentials
Navigating skills sets and group dynamics
- Instituting open and trusting lines of communication among team members
- How to make sure everyone on the team feels heard and valued to ensure team trust
- Implementing incremental improvements when there are roadblocks
Aligning with company and/or client needs and goals
- Securing a common vision and commitment to achieving a common goal
- Clarifying and agreeing on specifications and expectations of the project
- Establishing transparency and key performance indicators
Staying within budget and on schedule
- The importance of establishing priorities at the outset of project conception
- Using the priorities as guideposts to stay on course
- Ensuring the team stays focused on the work only it, as a unit, is equipped to handle, so it avoids getting sidetracked