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Team Leadership
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Overview: |
| The New Horizons Team Leadership Program teaches participants how to be an effective team leader. Participants learn how to communicate effectively, adapt to various personality styles, overcome common problems, work on aspects of verbal and nonverbal communication, create a supportive team environment, understand the sources of team conflict and employ different conflict resolution strategies. Program activities also cover resolving conflict, avoiding the negative consequences of conflict, maximising real benefits, reaching consensus, and making positive contributions to team decisions.
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Target Audience: |
| This course is perfect for anyone who is in a team-leader or Supervisor role or is about to be promoted to such a position.
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Key Participant Benefits: |
- Provides strategies to create better team performance
- Increases participants’ people skills to motivate and influence
- Provides steps to deal with difficult situations arising in a team environment
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Key Business Benefits |
- Minimises friction caused by miscommunication or lack of empathy
- Lift in productivity through more effective communications, empathy and respect
- Creates stronger leadership and accountability at front-line level
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| Lesson 1: Understanding team fundamentals |
- Team fundamentals
- Organizing a team
- Identifying the importance of a team member
- Differentiating between types of teams
- Identifying team categories
- Identifying a team life cycle and its size
- Team member roles
- Identifying the responsibilities of a team member
- Making a decision
- Planning and monitoring team effectiveness
- Identifying the stages of team building
- Team goals
- Identifying an effective team goal
- Identifying the effect of hidden agendas
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Giving positive reinforcement
- Understanding team inefficiency
- Working together
- Identifying the effects of personality
- Understanding communication breakdowns
- Identifying a need for conflict
- Resolving conflict in a team
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| Lesson 2: Communicating in teams |
- Team communication
- Using open communication
- Communicating in a team
- Elements of communication
- Understanding verbal communication
- Using powerful language
- Supportive, effective communication
- Communicating supportively
- Communicating effectively
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| Lesson 3: Nonverbal communication and active listening |
- Nonverbal communication
- Understanding nonverbal cues
- Identifying types of nonverbal cues
- Meshing verbal communication and nonverbal cues
- Using positive nonverbal cues
- Active listening
- Identifying benefits of active listening
- Identifying listening pitfalls
- Becoming an active listener
- Response to input
- Identifying guidelines for response to input
- Responding to input
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| Lesson 4: Conflict |
- Identifying conflict
- Identifying conflict in a team
- Identifying the causes of and need for conflict
- Nature of conflict
- Identifying sources and types of conflict
- Identifying the effects of conflict
- Power
- Identifying types of powers
- Identifying effects of power
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| Lesson 5: Resolving and handling conflict |
- Resolving conflict
- Identifying a conflict resolution method
- Resolving a conflict between the team and yourself
- Handling conflict
- Understanding conflict-handling principles
- Identifying guidelines for handling criticism
- Conflict resolution styles
- Monitoring your own reactions
- Understanding conflict resolution styles
- Choosing conflict resolution styles
- Identifying damaging styles
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| Lesson 6: Making a decision |
- Collective decisions
- Identifying thought patterns
- Discussing collective decision-making
- Team decisions
- Understanding team decisions
- Understanding groupthink
- Preparing for team decision-making
- Decision-making methods
- Understanding decision-making methods
- Understanding the consensus process
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| Lesson 7: Consensus Lesson |
- Consensus process
- Identifying prerequisites to the consensus process
- Understanding steps of the consensus process
- Identifying ways to reach consensus
- Identifying how to manage conflict
- Consensus challenges
- Identifying consensus challenges
- Understanding detrimental attitudes
- Identifying a detrimental behavior
- Identifying pitfalls of the consensus process
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