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Dates
Dec 17, 2008 - Dec 18, 2008
Feb 03, 2009 - Feb 04, 2009
Jun 04, 2009 - Jun 05, 2009
Oct 15, 2009 - Oct 16, 2009
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$1,795.00 |
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$1,795.00 |
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High performance teams are essential for organizations to respond to the competitive pressures in changing domestic and global markets. High performance teams include:
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Virtual teams
- Project teams
- Product development teams
- Autonomous work teams
Attend Caltech IRC’s Developing and Sustaining High Performance Team's course to get the toolkit you need to strengthen your team development and team leadership skills.
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Benefits
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Contents
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Who Should Attend
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Instructor
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Hours & Credits
- Lead effective virtual teams
- Build the team member capabilities and contributions
- Develop a collaborative team culture and reduce conflict
- Recognize and deploy team member strengths
- Anticipate issues and facilitate team member interaction
- Deal with the special challenges of virtual teams, project teams, and self-directed teams
- Enhance team problem solving and decision making in high performance teams
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The Role of Teams for Leading Change
- Managing and leading as complementary systems of action
- The unique contributions of teams
- Teams as a major force for leadership in organizations
Building High Performance Teams
- Recognize the four dimensions of a team
- Pursue the characteristics of high performance teams
Overcoming Obstacles to Team Performance
- Facilitate team development
- Establish explicit team norms and expectations
- Foster a collaborative team climate
- Exercise leadership skills in pursuit of team goals
- Encourage open and candid communication
Achieving the Full Potential of Virtual Teams
- The special challenges of virtual teams
- Pursuing cooperation as an accelerated learning process
- Facilitative leadership practices
- Strategies for developing trust in virtual teams
- Recognizing the critical role of leadership
Understanding Motivation and Behavior in Teams
- Recognize the significance of the motivational value system
- Deploy the strengths, as well as the knowledge and skills, of team members
- Acknowledge and validate team member contributions
- Harness the power of ‘feedforward’ as a developmental process
Enhancing Team Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Recognize the key elements of effective problem solving and decision making
- Overcome the principal barriers to problem solving and decision making
- Use cognitive diversity, independence, and decentralization for collective decisions
- Overcome groupthink and passivity
- Develop a learning mindset
Providing Effective Team Leadership
- Becoming a learning leader
- Anticipative leadership
- Key steps for leading successful change
- Recognize leadership as a dynamic interpersonal process
- Lessons from experience with teams
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| Senior managers, project managers, and technical professionals wanting to improve their personal influence and effectiveness. |
Michael Sheean
Dec 17, 2008 - Dec 18, 2008
Feb 03, 2009 - Feb 04, 2009
Jun 04, 2009 - Jun 05, 2009
Oct 15, 2009 - Oct 16, 2009
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Michael Sheean
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Michael D. Sheean specializes in assessing organizational needs and helping to facilitate solutions to pressing organizational issues. He works with a variety of technical and service organizations focusing on leadership, team development, communication, and change. His clients have included ARCO, AT&T, Brooktree, Canadian Pacific, Computer Sciences Corporation, Northrop Grumman, Rockwell International, Southern California Edison, Tektronix, Terminal Data, Toyota Motor Sales, Tronomed, and Unocal.
Mr. Sheean helps clients initiate and develop management teams, project teams, and innovative problem solving teams as well as build a supportive climate for teams and teamwork. He assists management in developing the strengths and commitment of team members and in moving from autocratic to facilitative leadership practices. Mr. Sheean teaches the Caltech Industrial Relations Center course, Developing and Sustaining a High-Performance Team, which includes help for overcoming the challenges of virtual teams.
Mr. Sheean was a faculty member of the School of Business Administration and Economics, California State University, Northridge. He holds an MBA from the University of Washington.
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Day 1 - 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Day 2 - 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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CEU :
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PDU :
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14 |
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CPE :
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15 |
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| Download Course Brochure (PDF) |
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The California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Center is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the |
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Caltech Industrial Relations Center is a recognized provider registered with the PMI Registered Educational Provider Program (PMI® R.E.P.).
PMI and the PMI Registered Education Provider logo are registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc. |
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Comments from Past Participants
"I will be applying several aspects of the course to my work. The instructor's informal style was conducive for learning and participating. The case studies and examples provided were very helpful."
Thomas K. Morgan, Jr.
Project Manager, R&D
Berlex Biosciences
"The team diagnostics and the tools to introduce team members to one another are very helpful. The instructor's expertise and class interaction are great."
Galen P. Carver, M.S., P.E.
Director, Atlanta Human
Resources Center
U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services
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