Building High Performing Teams Certification Workshop

Building High Perfoming Teams Certification Workshop

Everybody knows good teamwork when they see it, yet few leaders know how to make it happen. The Building High Performing Teams Certification Workshop provides participants with the tools they need to help leaders create cohesive, goal-oriented teams. Based on the book, The Rocket Model: Practical Advice for Building High Performing Teams (Curphy & Hogan 2012), this workshop offers an easy-to-use, researched-based framework for diagnosing and improving team effectiveness. Participants of this one-day, highly interactive workshop will learn how to:

• Launch new teams
• On-board new team members
• Diagnose and improve team performance
• Improve team member engagement
• Manage virtual and cross functional teams
• Turn around dysfunctional teams

Workshop Modules

Pre-work: Read A Guide to Building High Performing Teams white paper (Curphy & Hogan, 2010) 

• Common Team Building Approaches
• Team Building Assumptions and Biases
• Rocket Model Overview
• Techniques to Diagnose Team Functioning
• Case Study: Retail Executive Leadership Team
• Team Building Activities
• Case Study: Designing the Initial Workshop
• Break
• Case Study: Launching a New Team
• Case Study: Virtual Sales Team
• Applications, Resources, and Closing Comments

Workshop Materials

Participants will receive the following materials for attending the workshop:

• A Guide to Building High Performing Teams white paper (Curphy & Hogan, 2010
• The Rocket Model: Practical Advice for Building High Performing Teams (Curphy & Hogan, 2012)
• Followership white paper (Curphy & Roellig, 2011)
• Applying the Rocket Model to Virtual Teams white paper (Curphy, 2013)
• Building High Performing Teams Certification Manual
• Building High Performing Teams Power Point Presentation
• Sample Team Assessment Survey II Feedback Reports
• Sample Team Interview Summaries
• On-line account for ordering Team Assessment Survey

WHEN: Monday, April 14, 2014

WHERE: ALLETE/Minnesota Power, 30 West Superior Street, Duluth - Inside the main Superior Street doors in Room 140

TIME: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

COST: $149.00 for Members  $199.00 for Non-members

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