Leadership and Team Skills for IT and Technical Professionals

Develop a High Performing Team That Gets Results

Course Description

As a project leader or manager you have more than your own work cut out for you. But, you also have people responsibility. You have to be great in both. This dynamic course will help you discover your own leadership and management style and show you how to use it to create and maintain a high-powered, result-oriented team that will get the job done. You will learn how to build a high performing team by understanding team dynamics, aligning vision and performance and using effective communication to motivate, develop, delegate and coach.

Learning Objectives

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

• Understand the difference between a work group and a team.
• Break the ice among them members and get them to work together effectiv.
• Hold team members accountable for their work and the work of the team.
• Handle difficult team members and difficult team personalities.
• Move from conflict to collaboration.
• Align team activities with organizational goals.

Course Details

• Length: 1 day
• Audience: Those having the responsibility for getting the work done through others – managers, project leaders, or those moving into a leadership role
• Optimum Class Size: 15-20
• Prerequisites: None

Facilitator

Gary S. Topchik is the managing partner of SilverStar Enterprises, a consulting firm specializing in management and leadership development, organizational change, and team building retreats. Gary has worked with a wide variety of organizations including Dolby Laboratories, Sony Pictures, Harman Becker, Oracle, Western Digital, American Airlines, Aramco, Batelco, AT&T, Honeywell, Apple Computer, and Disney, as well as many smaller organizations, educational institutions and governmental organizations.

He has articles published in the leading professional journals and has written five books: The First-Time Manager; Equity Checking: Managing Assumptions to Achieve Organizational Success; The Accidental Manager; Managing Workplace Negativity; and The First-Time Manager’s Guide to Team Building. He has appeared on many radio and cable shows discussing his work.

Gary has an MBA in Organizational Behavior and advanced certification from Cornell University and is a Registered Organizational Development Executive Coaching Consultant.

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