The Practical Leader: Developing and Leading High Performing Teams
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The Practical Leader: Developing and Leading High Performing Teams Course
Introduction:
The Practical Team Leader program is a unique hands-on approach to leadership training within a manufacturing operations environment. The course adopts a unique approach with a real-world, 'day in the life of' experience that teaches both technical and interpersonal skills in a simulated factory setting. The Practical Leader program will provide you with the skills required to become an effective and competent Manufacturing Operations Team Leader through an immersive blended learning approach comprising: a suite of eLearning modules for essential knowledge practical interactive manufacturing operations factory simulation interpersonal skills needed for dealing with with team members and potential conflicts.
The Practical Team Leader training course will allow you to explore what you do hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month as a team leader. Other training courses will teach you the theory of leadership, concentrating on style, vision, mission, and values. You will gain the necessary skills, through learning and practice, to manage the daily operations of your team in a manufacturing environment; ensuring efficient operations in achieving business targets. You will learn, through effective teamwork and planning, how to enable your team to achieve the required product quality, cost, and delivery targets, by maintaining standard working methods, quality, and safety standards.
The skills gained will enable delegates to set expectations by clearly defining roles and responsibilities, motivating people both as teams and as individuals with a focus on learning management actions required to pinpoint performance levels and maintain team effectiveness.
Course Objectives:
By the end of The Practical Leader: Developing and Leading High Performing Teams course you will be able to:
- Identify steps to create a close, mutually trusting relationship with team members and colleagues
- Understand what elements of your role as a leader give the greatest return
- Identify and leverage individual talent within the team
- Engage and motivate the team using vision techniques
- Establish clear objectives and standards of performance for your team
- Read personality preferences and adapt your leadership accordingly
- Manage and use advanced coaching techniques to replace ‘tell’ with ‘ask’
- Techniques to engage with and motivate employees
- Develop and manage teams for optimum performance
- Deal with under-performers in a positive, constructive way and encourage and support good performers
- Delegate and empower effectively and in particular, communicate and run meetings effectively
- Handle team change effectively
Who Should Attend?
The Practical Leader: Developing and Leading High Performing Teams course is ideal for:
- Leaders who are looking to update their skills and ability
- Managers who have taken on a new team leadership role
- Managers who have a challenging team or feel their teams are ‘stuck’
- Senior Management wants to learn modern leadership techniques
- Project Managers or those with a project management role
Course Outlines:
Teams and their Leaders
- The Relationship between Teams, Leaders and Managers
- Key Leadership Tasks and Responsibilities
- Balancing Influence, Authority, and Power
- Different Leadership Styles and Style Flexibility
- Self-awareness and Getting Feedback
- Emotional Intelligence and Rapport
Vision, Direction & Alignment
- Creating a Shared Vision
- Aims, Objectives, and Goal Alignment
- Developing Meaningful Objectives and Indicators
- Divergent Approaches to Problem-solving
- Communicating a Compelling Vision
- Taking a Coaching Approach to Problem Solving
Team Dynamics
- Stages of Team Development
- The Sociology of The Team
- Characteristics of High-performing Teams
- Balancing Different Team Roles and Personality Types
- Non-traditional Team Structures
- Delegation and Empowerment
Developing the Team
- Personality Types and The Mix Needed For Success
- Building a Coherent Team
- Self-managing Teams and Their Challenges
- Coaching, Mentoring, and Self-directed Learning
- Feedback and Appraisal
- Leveraging Team Strengths for Peak Performance
Performance & Conflict Management
- Defining Performance
- Approaches to Measuring Team and Individual Performance
- Performance Management: Science or Art?
- Giving and Receiving Feedback Effectively
- Conflict as A Catalyst for Team Development
- Dealing with Challenging Interpersonal Relations
