Workshop on Advanced Teamwork and Collaboration: The Art of Working Together, Innovation, Collaboration & Leadership

Program Overview:

This course explores the nature and benefits of innovative and collaborative teams. Increasingly, companies see innovation and collaboration as a key source of competitive advantage, with benefits for motivation and engagement and developing talent, as well as team and organizational performance. However, achieving these benefits places new demands on leaders, and requires new leadership skills to create a more collaborative environment.

For whom:

This course is designed for senior executives, line managers and experienced supervisors with responsibilities for team performance and management. Leaders developing team skills and capabilities.  Additionally, HR and Learning and Development professionals with responsibilities for developing organizational skills and capabilities can also benefit from this program.

Learning objectives:

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• evaluate the key features and benefits of innovative and collaborative teams;
• assess their team’s current and aspired innovation and collaboration skills and create an appropriate development plan;
• adopt key approaches for creating the right environment for innovation and collaboration;
• apply approaches to developing shared purposes and goals; and
• apply leadership practices which inspire and support team innovation, collaboration and success.

Course outline:

Day 1: The Benefits of Innovation and Collaboration

• The nature of innovation
• Collaboration vs. competition
• Learned behaviours
• Innovative and collaborative teams
• The innovative and collaborative team mind set

Day 2: Building the Innovative and Collaborative Team

• Innovative and collaborative team values
• High performance goals and metrics
• Innovation and collaborative skills
• Appraising team skills
• Designing a team development programme

Day 3: Creating the Right Environment for Innovation and Collaboration

• The new role of leadership
• Individual creative work
• Individual strengths and blind spots
• Trust and communication
• Recognition and feeding forward
• Productive conflict: a source of creativity and team cohesion

Day 4: Inspiring Shared Purposes and Common Goals

• Individual preferences and goals
• Developing a team picture of success
• Force field’ analysis
• Strategic priority areas
• Monitoring progress and achievement

Day 5: Leadership Practices for Innovative and Collaborative Teams

• Guiding principles: drawing on great experiences
• Communication with and within your team
• Team gatherings
• Team decisions and the leader’s decision-making process
• Personal and team accountability
• Developing a personal and team action plan

The Course Package: Includes: Course material in soft copy, Tea break, Lunch, City tour, and certificate of attendance. A laptop with the soft copy of the course material loaded with a carrying bag will be presented to the participants at the end of the course.

Note: Payment is either U$D or the prevailing parallel market rate. We do not accept government official rate.

Training Methodology

• Methodology: Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods

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