Collaborating As A Team
This interactive workshop is designed to help the leader and members develop skills to improve communication and perform collaboratively as a team. Methods used to encourage participants to engage in this learning are case studies, role plays, games and exercises, flipchart work and a team mini-project.
With our extensive knowledge of the different software currently on the market, including all Microsoft and Adobe applications, ON-TRACK Corporate Training Ltd. has a diverse and flexible schedule that can be customized to your needs – we offer group course (both public and corporate), one-on-one training, and on-site training options. We also have easily accessible on-line training videos available.
Duration: 1 Day
Objectives
After this workshop, the participants will be able to:
- Identify the four stages of healthy team development
- Define collaborative teamwork and compare the results of competitive and collaborative performance
- Develop the "collaborative attitude"
- Use communication techniques to clarify messages and share information
- Make decisions and resolve conflict issues together using skills and techniques
- Apply these techniques in other venues
- Manage the stress caused by time pressures in an environment of change
- Develop workable strategies to continue collaborating even more effectively
Outline
- Part 1: Introductions and warm-up interactive team exercise
- "Characteristics of an effective team"
- Part 2: Choosing to collaborate: the effects of competition
- Conditions necessary to promote collaboration
- Finding a way to win-win
- Part 3: Communication skills and techniques
- Four communication styles
- Asking the right questions
- Review of active listening skills ("From No to Yes")
- Checking perceptions and assumptions
- Using positive language
- Assertiveness
- Part 4: Making decisions and resolving our issues together
- Decision-making models
- Reaching consensus as a team within a hierarchical environment
- A review of personality types
- Identifying, managing and resolving conflicts
- Resolving issues positively
- Part 5: Maintaining a respectful and stress-reduced workplace
- Managing time in a changing environment
- Preventive and prescriptive stress management
- Cognitive techniques to use together
- Looking at the bigger picture: seeing the meaning of our work
- Part 6: Developing Strategies for working even better together: Wisconsin Model
- Course Closure and Evaluation