Developing Team Skills and Processes: A Competency-Based Approach to Understanding Group Dynamics, Stages of Team Development, and Actions to Improve ... Workbooks for Structured Learning) - 801

What does it take for teams to be consistently high-performing? A culture of excellence cannot be created by a single individual. Studies of individual and team decision-making have shown that typically teams outperform individual decision makers and decision-making improves as team diversity increases. Further, while employees look to leadership to set the tone and guide expectations and goals, teamwork is an increasingly important ingredient for strengthening organizational performance. Supporting this, research indicates that the benefit of teamwork includes increased creativity, improved communication, better conflict resolution, and improved customer service. This competency-based workbook gives you a practical and hands-on approach that focuses on expanding your understanding of team development, group dynamics, and the skills associated with team success. You will learn what a work team is, how team members function together, and how to guide teams as they do their work. After completing this workbook, you will be able to: List the key skills associated with team success. Describe the stages of team development. Understand how group dynamics impact team performance. Identify the components of effective team process. Explain how to improve team process in specific situations. 10 Key Concepts to Master 1. Understand Team Leader Responsibilities 2. Structure Teams to Facilitate Work 3. Identify Essential Skills for Productive Teams 4. Build Positive Relationships among Team Members 5. Describe Leader and Member Behaviors for Success 6. Review the Stages of Team Development 7. Be Aware of Team Group Dynamics 8. Facilitate Consensus Decision Making 9. Contrast Effective and Ineffective Team Processes 10. Improve and Lead Successful Teams Structured Learning All our workbooks align with our research-based Competency Model. The model, which is rooted in work by the U.S. Department of Labor and others, gives you a framework for structured learning by helping you identify and develop specific competencies. Competencies are sets of skills, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that are observable and measurable. Our model has 35 competency dimensions associated with successful performance in leadership and professional roles. Competencies are clustered into five domains that may overlap. This Developing Team Skills and Processes workbook focuses on the competency areas of Teamwork and Cooperation, Interpersonal Relationship Building, and Influencing and Negotiating. The workbook content is primarily associated with the Supervisory/Management competency cluster or domain. For more information or visit: www.centrestar.com Best of all? You can take any course: Online at your own pace through Centrestar and earn CEUs or PDHs: www.centrestar.com Select workbook materials through Amazon and conduct your own customized inhouse training Arrange to have any or all sessions instructor led via remote platform for your organization by the Pennsylvania College of Technology: call: 570.327.4775 or email: workforce@pct.edu
ASIN: B09XZMDFND
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Author/Artist:Donahue, Dr. Wesley E
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