Developing Productive Teams

Successful modern organizations are increasingly team-based because the old military model ("You're not paid to think but to obey!") no longer gets the job done.  The development and imaginative application of ideas cannot be commanded. It must be fostered, and allowed to grow. This workshop examines the process of building high performing work teams. Participants will participate in a team simulation, and have the opportunity to look at behaviors to determine what enhances and inhibits team effectiveness. Participants will learn how teams creatively solve problems, the characteristics of effective teams, methods of operation for effective teams, the stages of team development and how teams evolve through stages.   Developing Productive Teams introduces the stages of growth, and examines behaviors common to each development stage. Whether these behaviors are resolved or unresolved can be a telling instrument for evaluating a team’s current effectiveness.

Learning Objectives:
	Understand how teams function.
	Identify common team problems.
	Describe characteristics of effective teams.
	Identify teams at different stages of development and predict their likely behavior.
	Apply conflict reduction techniques in a team environment to find real solutions to productivity issues.
	Maintain team productivity through improved communications skills.