Introduction to Team Leadership and Management

1. Identifying personal objectives: Identifying participants personal objectives in attending the training.

2. Benefits and features of effective teamwork: Examining the benefits of working collaboratively, and identifying the exact nature of good teamwork for the team members and the team as a whole.

3. Teams versus groups: Identifying the difference between a group of individuals and a fully functioning team; exploring the progression of a team through 5 stages of development.

4. Team roles: Considering the different roles taken by team members, and learning to use this to enhance team performance.

5. The role of the leader: Analysing the role of an effective leader in terms of managing team dynamics; recognising and working with individual strengths and weaknesses and motivating the team to achieve its goals and objectives.

6. Team responsibilities: Identifying the responsibility of team members towards the team and exploring how the leader can encourage commitment and responsibility towards the team as a whole.

7. Conflict Management: Identifying inevitable sources of conflict within a team and learning to deal effectively and professionally with conflict when it arises.

8. Personal development planning: Extending learning back into the workplace through comprehensive action planning