How to be an Effective Team Player

Increase Your Effectiveness as a Team Leader and Team Member

Course Description

Teams have become the primary vehicle for accomplishing the goals of an organization and, therefore, the most successful people are those who can quickly and effectively work with a variety of different groups. During the course of a work week most people have responsibility for both leading a team at some point while at other times serving as a member of another team.

The key to success is to develop an effective style that serves you well in both roles. In this highly participative workshop you will learn how to be an effective team player by learning your personal style, including its strengths and potential weaknesses, ways to increase your effectiveness as a team leader or members and walk away with an action plan to increase your effectiveness back on the job.

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 half-day workshop participants are expected to:

• Learn the three elements of an effective team.
• The four stages of team development.
• The four team player styles.
• Understand and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of their style.
• Create a plan to increase their effectiveness as a team leader/member back on the job.
• Learn how to communicate effectively with teammates with different styles.
• Use a new tool to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of their team.

Course Details

• Length: Half Day
• Audience: Sales, Technical, Finance, Customer Service, Legal, Financial
• Optimum Class Size: 18-20
• 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 additional information or to arrange a workshop

Please contact our Sales Department at: sales@ani-training.com