Course Description
What does it take to build and manage a winning team in business?
We’ve all been a part of ineffective teams, and whether they’ve failed because of hidden agendas, office politics, or clashing personalities, the outcome is still the same…failure.
Success in team management depends more on strategies than a manager’s style — and in order to create and lead an engaged team you need to cultivate the right conditions by:
- Evaluating the structure of your teams
- Driving individual and team performance
- Defining membership boundaries
- Setting team direction
- Engaging each team member
- Keeping projects on time and in budget
Course Highlights:This comprehensive audio conference tackles how to build and manage an effective team from the ground-up. In just 75 minutes, you’ll learn practical tips and techniques to make your team cohesive, motivated and productive, including how to:
- Build a high-performing team and eliminate obstacles to effective teamwork
- Set and communicate team boundaries
- Get everyone on board when it comes to the focused goals of the team
- Clarify team member roles and creating trust relationships within the group
- Create a sense of team belonging and loyalty
- Manage team conflict and resolve differences
- Deliver effective performance feedback and rewards
- Know which management style will get you max results (Participative/Authoritarian/Autocratic/Charismatic etc.)
Faculty:Rebeka Graham, Founder, Rebeka Graham Enterprises, Inc. With 20 years experience leading and managing several IT organizations in Fortune 500 companies including Koch Industries, the largest privately held company in the nation, and the Williams companies, an international energy industry leader, Rebeka Graham worked with executive leadership teams to develop business process systems and led international information technology departments to support the business needs.
Since founding her own consulting company in 2002, Rebeka has become one of the leading management and leadership trainers in the country and around the world. She has worked with Fortune 500 corporations, top government officials, as well as emerging corporate leadership in Japan, China and across Asia.
Rebeka has an engaging, interactive style that makes learning possible in the corporate setting while expediting newly-learned information toward implementation. She is the co-author of the Ultimate Productivity online assessment tool as well as the revolutionary Ultimate Productivity training modules. Rebeka is a Licensed Practitioner with Insights Learning & Development, a global learning and development company.
Jim Stovall, World Renowned Author & Speaker Jim Stovall has been recognized by the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity as the Entrepreneur of the Year in a ceremony in Washington, DC. He has been honored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as the businessperson of the year. He has been a national champion Olympic weightlifter, and he is the president of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network. NTN has grown to include over 1,200 cable systems and broadcast stations, reaching over 35 million homes in the United States, and NTN is shown in 11 foreign countries.
Jim Stovall has been featured on "Good Morning America," CNN, and in Time magazine as well as The Wall Street Journal and Forbes magazine.
He is the author of the best-selling book The Ultimate Gift which is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox starring James Garner, Brian Dennehy, and Abigail Breslin. Jim Stovall was selected as the 2000 International Humanitarian of the Year, joining Jimmy Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Mother Teresa as recipients of this honor.
His twelfth book, entitled Ultimate Productivity, is now available.