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Seven Steps to Leading High Achieving Teams

GES 414 -- 70 hours

Course Outline

Step 1: Know Thyself: The journey from Home to Kathmandu - 4,500 ft

1. This step provides you with the baseline personal style about yourself. It is the foundation for understanding what governs our actions, how we perceive the world and how others perceive us.
2. Life Styles Personal Profile
3. Understanding the Life Styles model and self assessment

Step 2: How We Are Perceived by Others: The Journey from Kathmandu to Base Camp - 17,500 ft
1. This step builds on step 1 to provide you with information and feedback from others to help you understand how they perceive you and how this matches with your own perception. You are also helped to accurately identify and understand the profile of other people with whom you interact.
2. Life Styles Inventory 2 - Feedback from others

Step 3: Building the Team: From Base Camp to Camp 1 - 19,000 ft
1. This step will enable you to understand the different strengths that individuals bring to the team and how they can be deployed to maximize team performance.
2. Belbin Team Role Preferences
3. Understanding and using your own team role strengths
4. Maximizing team strengths and managing limitations
5. Creating productive working relationships

Step 4: Using Effective Team Working Processes: From Camp 1 to Advanced Base Camp - 21,000 ft
1. This step critically examines the processes of team working and provides guidelines for best practice.
2. Managing task achievement
3. Team briefing
4. Objective setting
5. Decision-making
6. Planning
7. Process Reviewing

Step 5: Developing the Capability of the Team: From Advanced Base Camp to Camp 3 - 24,000 ft
1. This step explores ways of developing the ability of the team to be self-sustaining and operate with a high level of autonomy, a pre-requisite of high-achieving teams.
2. Stages of team development - exploration of different models
3. How to help the team move through the stages of development

Step 6: Being an Effective Communicator: From Camp 3 to Camp 4 - 26,000 ft
1. During this step you will develop the skills of effective communication that oil the wheels of team work.
2. The Communication Pyramid
3. Verbal Communication
4. Non Verbal Communication
5. Listening Skills
6. Questioning Skills
7. Reaching Agreement
8. Giving Feedback

Step 7: Understanding Your Organizational Environment: From Camp 4 to the Summit - 29,035 ft
1. This step provides you with a better understanding of the organizational cultures in your life, including work, community and home. It will reveal the predominant culture in your work team, how this impacts the team performance and what you can do to create a culture of achievement.
2. Life Styles Culture Inventory and development work