Leading High Performing Teams

Introduction:

The Practical Team Leader training program offers a unique hands-on approach to leadership development specifically tailored for manufacturing operations environments. Through a simulated factory setting, participants will gain practical experience in both technical and interpersonal skills essential for effective team leadership. The course includes eLearning modules covering essential knowledge, interactive manufacturing operations simulations, and interpersonal skills training to equip participants with the necessary tools to excel as Manufacturing Operations Team Leaders. By immersing themselves in a 'day in the life of' experience, delegates will learn how to effectively manage daily operations, ensure efficiency in achieving business targets, maintain quality standards, and foster teamwork to drive success. This training program focuses on practical skills and actions required to set expectations, define roles, motivate teams, 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 leader give 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 ideal for:

• Leaders who are looking to update their skillset 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 wanting 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