Team Member Skills (Making A Positive Impact), Thales Training Consultancy

TEAM MEMBER SKILLS (MAKING A POSITIVE IMPACT)

Duration:

2 days (In-Company or Customised Course only)

Price:

On Request

Locations Available:

Suitable For:

Effective teams help business success, and teams are collections of individuals. This course is designed for individuals who work as part of a team. ‘Team Member Skills – Making a Positive Impact’ benefits: new starters; individuals who need to learn or to improve their teamworking skills; and those who need support in building relationships within their team. The course fits well into an organisation’s Induction Programme or can be used as an excellent Team Building Exercise for whole teams.

Related courses in our range include:

Building Positive Relationships
Communicating for Success
Team Building for Managers

Benefits of Attending:

By the end of the course participants will be able to:

Apply skills and techniques to improve their input, impact and influence within the team
Take the appropriate steps to integrate themselves into the team
Recognise the stages of evolution for a team
Identify and develop a network of contacts to enhance their team’s performance
Review how their team reacts to change
Analyse the team’s culture and its implications for identifying improvements and modifications
Produce an action plan to develop their pro-active team approach

Course Outline:

How a Team Works and the Importance of Each Individual’s Contribution

Communication Within Teams

Ensuring the most effective communication takes place
Using the skills to enhance your own and the team’s performance
Barriers to effective teamwork

Team Building Exercise

Improve confidence for working within the team
Involving and integrating into the team
Recognising individual contribution to team success

Rights and Responsibilities of team members

Identifying your rights as a team member
Clarifying your responsibilities

Different Qualities and Behaviours People Bring to a Team

Using Belbin’s theory to identify how the "make-up" of the team members can influence performance
Dealing with different types of people and behaviours
Identifying what each individual brings to the team
Dealing with conflict within the team

How a Team Evolves

Stages of development as the team evolves and how this affects performance, based on the Tuckman model
What are team members’ involvement at each stage

Building a Network

Pro-actively building relationships within the team
Developing a support team network
Giving and receiving feedback

Organisational and Team Culture

How change is affected by culture
How to operate and influence change within the current culture

Improving the Effectiveness of your Team

Developing action plans to improve your effectiveness and the effectiveness of the team