Developing Effective Teams and Team Players

Practical Tools for Winning With Teamwork

Course Description

Find out what defines an effective team player and how team players and teamwork can benefit an organization's bottom line. Discover your own team player style, benchmark your team against the 12 characteristics of an effective team, develop a plan to build successful stakeholder relationships and examine ways to create a team-based environment.

In this survey-based course, you will identify your team leader (or member) style and develop a plan to increase your effectiveness using the data from the Parker Team Player Survey, a proven self-assessment instrument. You will also complete the Parker Team Development Survey and then use the results to analyze your team and create an action plan for improvement.

An organization can tailor the class to meet their immediate needs by selecting from a menu of units that include building stakeholder relationships, successful conflict resolution, effective meeting management, team decision-making and team empowerment.

The learning methodology includes discussions, small group exercises, a self-assessment survey, a team player video, simulations, feedback and action planning. Each participant also receives a copy of the new book, Team Players and Teamwork and a survey instrument, the Parker Team Player Survey as well as handout materials.

Learning Objectives

As a result of successful completion of this one-day workshop participants are expected to:

• Identify the three dimensions of effective teamwork.
• Learn the four types of team players, including their characteristics.
• Discover their personal team player style.
• Prepare a plan to increase their personal effectiveness as a team leader or member.
• Learn the 12 dimensions of an effective team.
• Benchmark their team against the 12 dimensions.
• Create a plan that includes specific ways their team can be immediately improved.
• Walk away with practical and easy team building tools for use back on the job.
• Learn practical tips for one of the following: (1) building stakeholder relationships, (2) successful conflict resolution, (3) effective meeting management, (4) team decision-making or (5) team empowerment.

Course Details

• Length: One Day
• Audience: Any organization where teamwork is key to success
• Optimum Class Size: 20
• Prerequisites: none

Facilitator

Glenn is an internationally recognized training and team building consultant with more than 35 years in the field. Glenn is the author of some 16 books and manuals for team building as well as the Parker Team Player Survey that has sold more than one million copies. He has been a consultant to hundreds of major corporations such as Novartis, Merck, Lucent, Telcordia Technologies, BOC Gases and Phillips-Van Heusen as well small companies and government agencies such as the US Coast Guard. Several of his books ----- most notably, Team Players and Teamwork (recently published completely revised and updated second edition) --- have become major business best-sellers with more than 100,000 copies sold world-wide.

Glenn is a graduate of City College of New York, holds a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois and has studied for the doctorate at Cornell University. He is the father of three grown children and lives in central New Jersey with his wife, Judy.

He is an active volunteer with the American Cancer Society where he co-founded RUN FOR DAD, an event held on Father’s Day to raise awareness about prostate cancer that, in 2007, just its fifth year, drew more than 1,000 people.

For more information: www.glennparker.com

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