The Practical Leader: Developing and Leading High Performing Teams
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The Practical Leader: Developing and Leading High Performing Teams Course
Introduction:
The Practical Team Leader program offers a distinctive, hands-on approach to leadership training tailored specifically to the manufacturing operations environment. This unique course provides participants with a comprehensive learning experience that integrates technical and interpersonal skills through a simulated factory setting.
Through an immersive blended learning approach, the Practical Leader program equips individuals with the essential skills necessary to become effective and competent Manufacturing Operations Team Leaders. The program comprises a suite of eLearning modules that deliver essential knowledge, practical interactive manufacturing operations factory simulations, and interpersonal skills training to effectively manage team members and handle potential conflicts.
Unlike other training courses that primarily focus on leadership theory, emphasizing style, vision, mission, and values, the Practical Team Leader course takes a practical approach. It allows participants to explore the day-to-day responsibilities of a team leader, examining the tasks and challenges they face on an hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly basis. By learning and practicing key skills, participants will develop the ability to efficiently manage their teams' daily operations in a manufacturing environment, effectively driving the achievement of business targets. This includes enabling teams to meet product quality, cost, and delivery targets while maintaining standard working methods, adherence to quality standards, and ensuring safety.
By completing this course, participants will acquire valuable skills that enable them to set clear expectations by defining roles and responsibilities. They will gain the ability to motivate individuals and teams, implementing effective learning management actions to identify performance levels and maintain team effectiveness. Ultimately, the Practical Team Leader program equips delegates with the practical skills and knowledge needed to excel in their role as team leaders within the manufacturing industry.
Course Objectives:
By the end of The Practical Leader: Developing and Leading High Performing Teams course you will be able to:
- Identify steps to create a close, mutually trusting relationship with team members and colleagues
- Understand what elements of your role as leader give greatest return
- Identify and leverage individual talent within the team
- Engage and motivate the team using vision techniques
- Establish clear objectives and standards of performance for your team
- Read personality preferences and adapt your leadership accordingly
- Manage and use advanced coaching techniques to replace ‘tell’ with ‘ask’
- Techniques to engage with and motivate employees
- Develop and manage teams for optimum performance
- Deal with under-performers in a positive, constructive way and encourage and support good performers
- Delegate and empower effectively and in particular, communicate and run meetings effectively
- Handle team change effectively
Who Should Attend?
The Practical Leader: Developing and Leading High Performing Teams course ideal for:
- Leaders who are looking to update their skillset and ability
- Managers who have taken on a new team leadership role
- Managers who have a challenging team or feel their teams are ‘stuck’
- Senior Management wanting to learn modern leadership techniques
- Project Managers or those with a project management role
Course Outlines:
Teams and their Leaders
- The Relationship between Teams, Leaders and Managers
- Key Leadership Tasks and Responsibilities
- Balancing Influence, Authority and Power
- Different Leadership Styles and Style Flexibility
- Self-awareness and Getting Feedback
- Emotional Intelligence and Rapport
Vision, Direction & Alignment
- Creating a Shared Vision
- Aims, Objectives and Goal Alignment
- Developing Meaningful Objectives and Indicators
- Divergent Approaches to Problem-solving
- Communicating a Compelling Vision
- Taking a Coaching Approach to Problem Solving
Team Dynamics
- Stages of Team Development
- The Sociology of The Team
- Characteristics of High-performing Teams
- Balancing Different Team Roles and Personality Types
- Non-traditional Team Structures
- Delegation and Empowerment
Developing the Team
- Personality Types and The Mix Needed For Success
- Building a Coherent Team
- Self-managing Teams and Their Challenges
- Coaching, Mentoring and Self-directed Learning
- Feedback and Appraisal
- Leveraging Team Strengths for Peak Performance
Performance & Conflict Management
- Defining Performance
- Approaches to Measuring Team and Individual Performance
- Performance Management: Science or Art?
- Giving and Receiving Feedback Effectively
- Conflict as A Catalyst for Team Development
- Dealing with Challenging Interpersonal Relations