Team Tools for Success: Leading a Project Team

© 2008 Merryn Rutledge, Ed.D

Description

You are tasked with leading a project team. How do you lead people through problem-solving, planning and successful implementation? What process tools are guarantors of success? How do you maximize the group’s potential for creating better solutions than individuals can? This interactive workshop goes beyond project management to teach you the frameworks and skills you need to plan and execute with any task group—soup to nuts.

Learning Objectives

Participants will have:

• Learned to charter the right agreements about team purpose, roles, resources and organizational sponsors
• Learned how to and practice using assessing needs and gaps
• Learned to facilitate team problem-solving and goal setting
• Gained resources and concrete solutions for resolving your real team challenges

Time Needed

2 days; 7 teaching hours each day

Teaching techniques

Presentation 10%

Discussion 30%

Praxis 50%

Self-assessment and reflection 10%

Agenda

Day 1

• Gathering and weeding ideas to make choices
• Secret to accomplishment: a team charter
• Team cohesion: modeling and teaching dialogue
• A tool for identifying needs and gaps

Day 2

• The sequence of every problem-solving process
• Visioning the desired state
• Writing SMART goals and objectives
• Time to work on your own project team challenges
• A tool that prepares for implementation of your project team plan
• Final questions and evaluation

More Custom Training Solutions