Overview
Successful team-based organizations require leaders to be collaborative and empowering and to transform organizations from a traditional leadership environment to a shared leadership environment where the importance of empowering team members is recognized. This course covers twelve specific challenges that are identified under Course Topics below. These challenges prepare leaders to negotiate and facilitate the complexities of leading teams throughout their life cycle. Once leaders have faced these challenges, their capabilities will improve in specific management areas.
Learning to use these new capabilities in a team environment will enhance a team leader's ability to self-assess and to select the most effective management style for a specific situation. Judging one management style relative to another is ineffective; instead participants learn to assess their own and others' management styles in order to enhance task performance.
The challenges in leadership of teams covered in this course are easy to apply in any management situation and will enable formation of teams that organize faster, think collaboratively, and are productive. They help create an environment where leaders can successfully support their teams in a competent professional atmosphere. Participants learn how to manage a team by providing structure and developing trust during the life cycle of a project. The team development model employed allows teams to organize and execute complex projects without the stress of miscommunication and distrust.
Learning how to strategically integrate the twelve leadership challenges will support development of the skills and techniques managers need to navigate organizational transformations of work in order to effectively guide project teams and to communicate effectively with senior management, CEOs, and Boards of Directors. These challenges are