Cultivating a High-performance Project Team Simulation

Overview/Description
 Smart Money Solutions, a prominent investment firm, is trying to create a knowledge management solution for their analysts to work with. The learner has been chosen to head up a team that will create the spec, build and implement the software, and train the researchers, analysts, and consultants on the tool. His/her task is to choose team members and work with them to develop their skills into a High-performance team that will deliver outstanding results. The simulation is based on the SkillSoft series Cultivating a High-performance Project Team and contains links to the following SkillSoft courses: TEAM0141, TEAM0142, TEAM0143, TEAM0144, TEAM0145, and TEAM0146.

Target Audience
 Managers, team leaders, and supervisors

Expected Duration
0.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Cultivating a High-performance Project Team Simulation

  • Clearly defining team's focus and goals by creating and discussing team charter, mission statement, and operating guidelines.
  • Valuing team diversity and using feedback to communicate respect.
  • Successfully choosing team members by administering skill, attitude, and leadership assessments.
  • Examining and understanding key team roles, internal, and external stakeholders.
  • Demonstrating leadership by being the Visionary, Barrier Buster, and Coach.
  • Applying effective strategies during the Chaos stage, including organizational background, team purpose and expectations, and team member responsibilities.
  • Fostering team culture by encouraging participation, creativity, and collaboration.
  • Providing collaborative opportunities to move team dynamics forward through creativity and empowerment.
  • Demonstrating management support and effective communication to a Collaborative Stage team.
  • Applying effective strategies in the Collaborative Stage to bring your team into the Collective Stage.
  • Encouraging members to share responsibility, solve their own problems, take risks, and demonstrate leadership.
  • Establishing trust, good communication, and a sharing culture within the team through honesty, responsibility, and recognition.
  • Demonstrating leadership by recognizing, addressing, and resolving problems efficiently.
  • Using focused team meetings to make team-based decisions.
  • Appropriately handling personality conflicts between team members.
  • Applying informal processes such as communicating and connecting, responding and adjusting, recognizing and celebrating to create a sense of unity in the team.
  • Applying effective strategies in the Conflict Stage.

    • Course Number: TEAM0140