Team launch training develops effective teamwork and creates initial plans and roles for the team.

TEAM LAUNCH WORKSHOP

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1. INTRODUCTION
  • Workshop Objectives
  • Warm-up Exercise and Discussion
  • Characteristics of Good and Bad Teams for new teams
  • Team Self Assessment to understand the state of an existing team (pre-workshop preparation)
2. HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS
  • Principles & Elements
  • Internal and External Success Factors Model
  • Discussion of Success Factors
  • Stages of Team Development (Storming, Forming, Norming & Performing)
  • Establishing Trust and Respect
  • Steps for Rapid Team Development
  • Focusing on Team Process
3. ADDRESSING TEAM MEMBER DIFFERENCES
  • Personality, Work, Information Gathering, & Decision-Making Styles
  • Understanding Style Differences
  • Working with Different Styles
  • Personal Style Inventory Exercise (Pre-Workshop Preparation) and Discussion of Implications
4. COLLABORATION AND CONSENSUS
  • Model for Collaboration - the Win-Win Approach
  • Finding Common Goals and Addressing Concerns
  • What Consensus Means
  • Steps to Avoid Conflict
  • What Decisions Require Consensus
  • Achieving Consensus
  • Consensus Exercise
5. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
  • Active Listening and Avoiding Offensive Communication
  • Balanced Participation
  • Effective Communication Exercise - Role Playing
  • Meetings, Bloody Meetings Video
  • Effective Team Meetings: 12 Steps for Effective Team Meetings
6. TEAM LEADER
  • Exercise - Characteristics of a Good Team Leader
  • Team Leader Roles and Responsibilities
  • Discussion of Team Leader Development Needs
7. TEAM GROUND RULES
  • What are Ground Rules, Why are They Needed, and What Do They Cover
  • Exercise - Developing Each Team's Ground Rules
8. TEAM CHARTER & EMPOWERMENT
  • Empowerment & Team Boundary Conditions
  • Group Discussion - Identifying and Overcoming Impediments to Empowerment
  • Group Discussion - Characteristics of Desired Culture (optional)
  • Team Charter - What is It & What is Needed to Develop It
  • Negotiating and Gaining Approval
  • Exercise - Developing or Committing to the Team Charter
9. TEAM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
  • Identifying and Understanding Inputs and Outputs
  • Exercise - Identifying Input & Output Requirements (Input/Output Chart)
  • Defining and Understanding Team Member Tasks and Responsibilities
  • Exercise - Defining Team Member Roles and Responsibilities
  • Developing and Committing to the Team's Project Plan and Schedule: Identifying Team Tasks & Establishing Relationships
  • Exercise - Developing a Preliminary Workplan or Diagramming and Reviewing the Current Plan
  • Next Steps for Completing the Plan and Establishing the Plan in Formal Company Systems
  • Interfaces with Other Entities (Functional Organizations, Program Management, Customers, Subcontractors, and Suppliers) and Other Teams
  • Exercise - Defining Team Interfaces (Data Flow Diagram)
  • Team Planning and Review Discussion
10. CONCLUSION
  • Summary, Questions
  • Discussion of Issues & Next Steps