Building High Performance Teams Course

A lot of focus is put on leadership development when in reality the leader is just one person, the real driving force behind a leader’s success is their team. A team operating effectively as a single unit will always outperform the best individual operating on their own. More importantly, no matter how knowledgeable and competent individual members of team may be, a dysfunctional team will undermine organisational goals, drain morale, and waste effort.

With the increased commercial pressures and target driven cultures many leaders are now considering how to get the highest levels of performance from their people. The single most important factor in driving effective teamwork and team engagement is the behavior and style of the leader. This Leading High Performing Teams training course explains how to harness the team’s potential and introduces techniques for moving the team to peak performance. This GLOMACS Management & Leadership training course is highly interactive, and participants are expected to discuss their unique situation as well as practicing the tools they are learning.

Highlights include:

• Discovering the link between the leader’s behavior and team performance
• Finding new ways to measure and manage performance.
• Unique techniques to truly tap into motivation.
• Harnessing the dynamics of the team through personality profiling
• Optimising team flexibility and commitment using advanced coaching skills.

Course Outline

Day 1

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

Day 2

Vision, Direction and 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

Day 3

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

Day 4

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

Day 5

Performance and 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

This building high performance teams training course is designed for intermediate - and senior - level professionals working for (or working with) industrial, commercial, and service corporations/companies, including:

• Corporate chief financial officers and other senior management
• Corporate treasury and capital markets professionals
• Corporate accounting, financial control, legal, and audit professionals
• Corporate cash managers and investment managers
• Corporate cash investment managers
• Corporate MIS and operations executives
• Corporate budgeting and planning executives
• Corporate production or business unit managers wishing to understand better how treasury operates and interacts with them.
• Commercial and investment bankers covering corporate treasury or finance professional.
• Description: Narrow horizontal Treasury marketing professionals at banks covering:
• Corporate Auditors,
• Accountants, legal, and
• Other external services working with corporate treasury or finance professionals.