executive essentials
Training: Team Building

 

Conflict Resolution

Conflict resolution is the process of attempting to resolve a dispute or a difference of desires. Successful conflict resolution occurs by listening to and providing opportunities to meet each side's needs, and adequately address their interests so that they are each satisfied with the outcome. This course aims to find ways to promote the positive outcomes and minimize the negative outcomes of conflict.

You Will:

  • Become more aware of your own conflict style
  • Recognize the conflict styles of others
  • Assess conflict situations
  • Practice using different conflict modes


Creating a Cohesive Team

People skills are essential for the successful completion of today's complex and critical projects. To gain buy-in and support, you need to create a cohesive team through improved communication and an environment that fosters cooperation. Executive Essentials facilitates a series of activities to help you achieve your goals. These fun and energetic activities are designed to exercise problem solving skills while improving communication and collaboration.
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Benefits:

Skill development varies by activity and can include the ability to:

  • Ensure long-term results by focusing on employee development
  • Meet the diverse needs of your team members with proven communication techniques
  • Align motivation with work and personal goals
  • Anticipate and resolve conflict situations
  • Instill a culture based on trust, partnerships and respect
  • Increase dialogue and constructive feedback
  • Partner with your team to ensure long-term productivity
  • Use delegation to increase performance and individual growth
  • Develop influencing and negotiation strategies
  • Disarm destructive behavior
  • Increase employee morale
  • Have fun!


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Hiring Right: Effective Interviewing

Companies with high turnover and poor employee retention rates experience lower employee morale and increased expenses in recruiting and training. Hiring the right employee for the job will result in increased employee productivity and a bigger bottom line. This course provides the foundation for understanding the characteristics that lead to success in your organization and how to interview to identify those traits. Exercises will provide practice in each phase of the process from writing the job description through documenting the interview.

You Will Learn To:
  • Determine appropriate recruiting sources
  • Network for talent
  • Write the job description
  • Prescreen applicants: the resume & the phone interview
  • Understand the different types of interview questions
  • Develop your interview structure and style
  • Balance the interview stages
  • Follow the Do's and Don't of interviewing
    - Get answers to your questions
    - Legal considerations
    - Manage the different candidate personalities
  • Document your interview
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Speeding Up Team Learning

Teams are an increasingly common and important part of organizational life, but it's rare that a team truly reaches its potential. In order to reach success we must work as part of a broad definition of team, whether it is our division, office, or entire organization.

You Will Learn:
  • Why it is so hard for teams to learn
  • Proven strategies for accelerating team learning
  • How to design teams effectively
  • How to select and develop team members to work together effectively
  • Develop norms for collaboration
  • Overcome ineffective group habits
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Team Building

In order to get anything accomplished we must work productively with various skill sets, education levels and personalities. To build a productive and efficient team, you must allocate responsibility based on desires and strengths. This course will focus on methods to determine the strengths and weaknesses of your team and distribute responsibilities to increase productivity and team morale.

You Will Learn To:
  • Manage employee conflict
  • Identify appropriate skills set to meet goals
  • Delegate fairly and effectively
  • Increase employee morale
  • Create team vision and purpose
  • Adapt your communication style
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Team Leadership

Creating leaders in today's business environment requires a broad set of skills. To be considered a leader, a manager must exercise influence, solve problems, communicate confidently, manage conflict, and inspire employees. Leadership is about knowing yourself, how your behavior affects the actions of others, and identifying your team's preferences. Understanding their goals and values, needs and wants, comfort and stretch areas can lead to more effective motivation, delegation, conflict resolution and overall team performance.

What You Will Cover:
  • Ensure long-term results by focusing on employee development
  • Meet the diverse needs of your team members with proven communication techniques
  • Align motivation with work and personal goals
  • Anticipate and resolve conflict situations
  • Instill a culture based on trust, partnerships and respect
  • Increase dialogue and constructive feedback
  • Partner with your team to ensure long-term productivity
  • Use delegation to increase performance and individual growth
  • Develop influencing and negotiation strategies
  • Disarm destructive behavior
  • Increase employee morale
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Virtual Teams

Virtual teams are more and more common, and can offer many benefits to organizations. However, there are also new risks and challenges that come with geographic separation that need to be managed.

You Will Learn:
  • Why virtual teams are so popular
  • How to maximize the benefits of virtual teams
  • How to select the best communication option for the situation
  • How to minimize the risks that virtual team members will not feel a sense of cohesion
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