A 2 Day, Hands-On Workshop for Government Employees
This highly interactive workshop is designed to give participants applicable skills in understanding and dealing effectively with the unique personalities of today’s government workforce and actively pursuing Mission Goals. It specifically addresses skills in personality theory assessment and application that participants can develop in class and use immediately to improve their professional and personal environments.
Teamwork in the government is rapidly evolving into a new form, which will be the future for all employees. Those who learn how to effectively use it will be respected and sought after by every organization. This workshop will also show you precisely what steps to take to make you more valuable and your team more effective in pursuit of Mission goals and objectives.
In this workshop participants will increase their understanding of what motivates others and what their goals are, they will gain skills to communicate more effectively, be able to more easily appreciate and tolerate the differences in others, and generally improve personal relationships while focusing on mission requirements. This understanding will dramatically change the way participants see themselves and others from now on. It will give participants powerful insight into why people think, feel and act the way they do.
The free High-Performing Teamwork Handbook you receive in this workshop is a powerful guide you will use today to assist in organizing and developing a High-Performing Team within your organization. A Teamwork Toolkit, including checklists, forms, and tip sheets, is also yours free in this workshop.
Workshop Objectives:
- Identify and deal effectively with the different personalities
- Maximize the chances that your workplace will be productive, efficient and harmonious
- Enable participants to communicate, motivate, and better delegate and prioritize required tasks
- Enable leaders to cultivate the natural strengths of the workforce
Workshop Topics:
- Designing the High Performing Team
- Team Players—The Key to Organizational Success
- Managing Resistance to Change
- Productivity—How to Get it
- Using Your Resources Effectively
- Quality Service
- Becoming the Mission Focused Team
- Steps to Being Effective
- Setting Roles and Responsibilities
- Information and Feedback
- Signs of Trouble
- Building Your Mission
- Building Your Team
- Defining Goals and Standards
- Evaluating Results
- Effective Team Players
- Personal Style
- Team-Player Styles
- Team-Player Actions
- Principles of Participation
- Recognizing Opportunity
- How to Build Your Skills – A Personal Action Plan
- Managing Multiple Priorities in a Team
- Team Time Management
- Questions for Your Personal Development
- How People Work Effectively in a Team
- Conditions that lead to Top Teams
- Coaching—the Key Ingredient
- Building Commitment
- Which roles have impact?
- Dealing with Conflict in a Team
- People Problems in Teams
- What to Do When the Boss is the Problem
- Early Signs of Problems
- How to spot them
- What to do next
- Group Think — Symptoms & Solutions
- Managing Agreement
- Managing Multiple Priorities in Teams
- Develop a Personal Action Plan
- Team Building
- Is Team Building Needed? Making a Diagnosis
- Team Building Concepts
- Getting the Team to Build Goals and Set Standards
- Establish a Tailored Measurement System that Ensures Success
- Follow-up
- Communicating in a Team
- Your Communication Skills – Self- Assessment
- Establishing Great Communication
- Reestablishing Communication after a problem
- Self-Evaluations
- Creative & Effective Teams
- Group Problem Solving and Decision Making
- How to Start it – How to Focus on it – How to Follow-through
- Design Effective Team Meetings
- Evaluating Team Performance
- Smart Questions to Ask
- Putting it all Together
- The Management Challenge
- The Personal Challenge
- Quality Improvement Actions
- Measuring the Results
- Questions for Your Personal Development
