Columbia Leadership Group | Leadership Development

BUILDING & LEADING HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS

Team Development

Teams are at the core of organizational performance but creating, leading and sustaining teams that deliver high performance is a big, multi-layered challenge.

BUILDING & LEADING HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS is a leadership program that puts you in the center of assembling and driving teams to achieve high-performance, including:

1) Getting buy-in from team members - uniting people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds who are typically located globally

2) Influencing others - get people inside and outside of the team to buy-in and carry out your strategies and support your vision

3) Leverage conflict - use conflict as an opportunity to build trust, consensus and deliver results

4) Build commitment - lead through action to create and sustain high performance in your teams

BUILDING & LEADING HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS

Team Development

Teams are at the core of organizational performance but creating, leading and sustaining teams that deliver high performance is a big, multi-layered challenge.

BUILDING & LEADING HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS is a leadership program that puts you in the center of assembling and driving teams to achieve high-performance, including:

1) Getting buy-in from team members - uniting people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds who are typically located globally

2) Influencing others - get people inside and outside of the team to buy-in and carry out your strategies and support your vision

3) Leverage conflict - use conflict as an opportunity to build trust, consensus and deliver results

4) Build commitment - lead through action to create and sustain high performance in your teams

WHY BUILDING & LEADING HI-PER TEAMS?

Useable, deeply-researched content gives first-time and front-line managers what they need, when they need it
Puts teaming with the larger strategic, organizational context
A highly-personalized experience centered around rich feedback and assessment
Heavy emphasis on practicing new techniques and skills, including leading virtual teaming, so you're ready to apply them immediately back on the job
Innovative and fun team leadership simulations
Coaching sessions for individual participants and teams
Support in the form of networks, coaching and on-the-job tools ensure your learning and application continues when you're back on the job

WHY BUILDING & LEADING HI-PER TEAMS?

Useable, deeply-researched content gives first-time and front-line managers what they need, when they need it
Puts teaming with the larger strategic, organizational context
A highly-personalized experience centered around rich feedback and assessment
Heavy emphasis on practicing new techniques and skills, including leading virtual teaming, so you're ready to apply them immediately back on the job
Innovative and fun team leadership simulations
Coaching sessions for individual participants and teams
Support in the form of networks, coaching and on-the-job tools ensure your learning and application continues when you're back on the job

PROGRAM EXPERIENCE

BEFORE

Participants are welcomed into the program with a package of digestible articles and videos to prime their thinking and introspection around leading teams. They complete several quick, straightforward assessments to capture their leadership teaming style and social intelligence. Direct reports, peers, superiors, and clients/customers complete a personalized assessment of the participant's leadership effectiveness based on critical behaviors proven essential for success. Participants also share their team leadership goals and goals for the program. They are also tasked with holding a guided conversation about their learning and leadership goals with their supervisor. We provide participants with an agenda and talking points for this conversation.

DURING

For four days, participants engage with highly-qualified facilitators in a dynamic, participant-focused learning environment.

Learning modules include: Influencing Teams and Team Members, Team Dynamics, Leading Teams, Turning Conflict into Results, Leading Virtual Teams, Orchestrating Team Effectiveness, Leading Multicultural Teams, Assessing & Modifying Team Performance and Managing Multiple Teams

• Readily-to-use applicable content based on robust research that changes viewpoints, builds team leader mindsets and skills, and supports leading teams with your leadership style

• Experiential exercises, cases and simulations bring concepts to life

• Group work allows for real-time leadership roles

• Continual networking fosters lasting connections

• Personalized action plan for applying new knowledge and tools back at work on day one

AFTER

Participants have continual access to program and post-program materials, as well as facilitators and other participants as resources for ensuring they're most effectively applying their learning on the job.

Ongoing support includes:

• An online portal with resources and support focused on your needs

• Access to eLearning resources to support your learning on the job including books, podcasts, articles and quick-reference checklists and tools

• Optional, fee-based coaching

PROGRAM EXPERIENCE

BEFORE

Participants are welcomed into the program with a package of digestible articles and videos to prime their thinking and introspection around leading teams. They complete several quick, straightforward assessments to capture their leadership teaming style and social intelligence. Direct reports, peers, superiors, and clients/customers complete a personalized assessment of the participant's leadership effectiveness based on critical behaviors proven essential for success. Participants also share their team leadership goals and goals for the program. They are also tasked withholding a guided conversation about their learning and leadership goals with their supervisor. We provide participants with an agenda and talking points for this conversation.

DURING

For four days, participants engage with highly-qualified facilitators in a dynamic, participant-focused learning environment.

• Readily-to-use applicable content based on robust research that changes viewpoints, builds team leader mindsets and skills, and supports leading teams with your leadership style

• Experiential exercises, cases and simulations bring concepts to life

• Group work allows for real-time leadership roles

• Continual networking fosters lasting connections

• Personalized action plan for applying new knowledge and tools back at work on day one

AFTER

Ongoing support includes:

• An online portal with resources and support focused on your needs

• Access to eLearning resources to support your learning on the job including books, podcasts, articles and quick-reference checklists and tools

• Optional, fee-based coaching

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Get greater buy-in from the teams you lead
Influence others to carry out your strategies and support your vision
Leverage conflict to deliver results
Build commitment to create and sustain high performance in your teams
Use Social Intelligence to understand dynamics and manage them for results
Lead virtual and multicultural teams to ensure consistent high performance
Assess and modify team performance through use of our Team Insights analysis tools

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Get greater buy-in from the teams you lead
Influence others to carry out your strategies and support your vision
Leverage conflict to deliver results
Build commitment to create and sustain high performance in your teams
Use Social Intelligence to understand dynamics and manage them for results
Lead virtual and multicultural teams to ensure consistent high performance
Assess and modify team performance through use of our Team Insights analysis tools