Program Overview
Developing approaches to shape team cohesion, impact, and performance
The way we work has been irreversibly transformed by the global pandemic, making it crucial to position our teams for success in this new working environment. By fostering connections, a team leader can prevent their team from becoming a collection of individuals and instead create a team dedicated to achieving together what they could not accomplish working in parallel.
The Building and Leading Teams program will dive into the most pressing opportunities that have emerged for teams, offering leaders proactive decision-making strategies to shape and lead a team.
You will gain insights into the legal implications and factors of remote and hybrid work, shifting expectations of productivity measures, and practices to sustain collaborative teams. Additionally, you will explore how emerging team practices can pave a path to alignment with organizational goals. By leveraging a new team impact model, you will design and shape a team development plan as a key takeaway from the program.
Module 1: Introduction to Building and Leading Teams
- Explore how the work environment is changing and the impact of remote and hybrid teams
- Examine the emerging team practices from experts
- Understand the new model of team impact and its three drivers
Module 2: Leadership Competency – A Driver of Team Impact
- Discuss how leading hybrid and remote teams is a new leadership competency
- Explore leadership confidence to strengthen and adapt your role as a team leader
- Learn from other leaders’ paths through the exploration of a case study
Module 3: Guidance For Leaders From a Legal Perspective
- Learn how to determine if employees have the right to work from home
- Discuss the legal implications regarding remote and hybrid work
- Share insights into real-life workplace examples
Module 4: Team Performance – A Driver of Team Impact
- Identify ways for teams to ensure a clear purpose and what is required from the team, clarifying roles and objectives
- Explore how the definition and measurement of productivity are shifting
- Learn about real case study examples about productivity – its myths and truths
Module 5: Team Cohesion – A Driver of Team Impact
- Understand what a team can create collectively versus working in parallel
- Learn practices and tools to develop the desired team culture and dynamics
- Examine real case study examples of team culture
Module 6: Develop Your Team Action Plan
- Diagnose your team’s current level of impact and create a Team Action Plan to strengthen it
- Learn how to avoid team pitfalls and reframe challenges as opportunities
- Share your Team Action Plan and benefit from peer feedback
Learning Outcomes
Participant Benefits
- Analyze how the work environment is changing and the impact of remote and hybrid teams
- Explore how emerging team practices can pave a path to creating stakeholder value
- Understand the three drivers for team impact: leadership competency, team cohesion, and team performance
- Discuss case studies and examine the key lessons from real-life examples
- Learn different strategies and approaches to increase and measure team productivity and contribution
- Diagnose your team’s current level of impact and create a team plan to strengthen it
Organizational Benefits
- Elevate confidence to strengthen and adapt your role as a team leader
- Modernize the team development and effectiveness practices and tools
- Create internal experts and advocates for sustaining cohesive remote and hybrid teams that focus on performance
- Align team leadership competency to enable organizational goals
Who Should Attend
Team Leads and High Potentials
Leaders with Direct Reports
Peers on the Same Team
Human Resources and Organizational Development Professionals
Facilitators and Speakers
Takeaway Tools
- Model for team impact: leadership competency, team cohesion, and team performance
- Team Action Plan
- Diagnostic checklist for team impact
