Building a High-performance Team

Overview/Description
 Project managers are responsible for planning, developing, and overseeing projects that represent major investments for their companies. To guarantee high returns on these investments, project teams need to move into high gear. In this course, you'll learn tools, techniques, and tips to move your project team from adequate to high performance. You'll recognize the value of cultivating a new project team culture and learn how to choose the right people for your team. Next, you'll become acquainted with attributes of high performance and explore a model for superior team development.

Target Audience
 Managers, team leaders, supervisors, directors, and group leaders

Expected Duration
2.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Choosing the Right People

  • recognize the critical importance of choosing the right people for a high-performance project team.
  • identify the criteria for selecting members of a high-performance project team.
  • match the critical roles of high-performance project team members with their responsibilities.
  • select the ways to optimize diversity on a high-performance project team.

    • Cultivating a Project Team Culture

  • recognize the benefits of cultivating a collaborative project team culture.
  • choose the team member attributes that foster considered risk-taking in a project team environment.
  • differentiate between effective and ineffective techniques to boost participation in a project team setting.
  • identify the ways to develop a collaborative project team environment.

    • Establishing the Attributes of High Performance

  • recognize the benefits of cultivating critical attributes for a high-performance project team.
  • identify the ways to clearly define the goals of high-performance project teams.
  • select the effective ways to gain team members' commitments.
  • identify the ways to exert strategic leadership on high-performance project teams.

    • Starting Down the Road to Excellence

  • recognize the value of using the superior approach to team development and performance.
  • identify the kinds of outcomes that superior teams strive for.
  • select the informal processes that superior teams commonly use.
  • identify the ways to engender distinctive team emotions that mark superior team development and performance.

    • Course Number: TEAM0141