Team leadership training
Team leadership training gives new team leaders clear ideas on the key principles, and more experienced team leaders new ideas for effective performance of the role.
The Team Leader role is often the first step into managing people and it has many challenges. This workshop helps people who are new to the team leader role or who want to get ideas on how to perform the role more professionally.
The importance of team leadership
Team leadership training is essential in the modern organisation. The transition from team member to team leader can be described as follows. We go from someone who is good at their job and is thought to be good at their functional role; to someone who is responsible for other people and their functional roles. We are going from someone who is rewarded for their own efforts to someone who is, to a degree, rewarded for the efforts of others. Conceptually it can be seen as an entirely different job. Yes we know the functional part of the role, but we may have no experience of managing people to do that role.
This workshop covers the fundamental building blocks of being a team leader, within the context of being newly promoted.
Participant Reviews
A fantastic course
Thank you Martin for a fantastic workshop on Professional Business Communication. I have learnt a lot and found it very enjoyable. I have a lot to take away with me and will be trying your suggestions and tips going forward.
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Great training session, really engaging and informative. Martin gave of lots of tips to use in our day to day work lives. Great overall!
Professional Business Communication
It was very informative and engaging especially we have had the chance to do some role plays in the breakout rooms. Very helpful.
Inclusive and thought provoking
I really enjoyed the course and this was helped by having Martin Chapman.
He was really engaged with us all and ensured we remained engaged throughout. I took a couple of points away from the course, that I will be working on over the next couple of months. It was very interesting listening to different management styles and experiences from the other delegates.
As the team were so engaged and we were clearly enjoying the course, I wish to course was a little longer.
Useful platform to have interactive discussions on communication and working style
Get to know yourself and those around you
The ITD approach
ITD’s approach to team leadership training is a blend of providing ideas, instruction and coaching. Participants reflect on their role and the ideas introduced, discussing these with other participants to explore how they might be introduced. They discuss and practice challenging situations for the team leader and look at any behavioural changes required.
Typical participant challenges
- “I have been a team leader for some time, but have received no formal training.”
- “I am new to the role and would like to get any ideas on how to be an excellent team leader.”
- “There are a lot of challenges I was not expecting with being a team leader and I would like ideas on these.”
- “In this role you get pressure from above and pressure from below, so I would like the team leadership training to give me new ideas and strategies for managing these.”
Tailoring this training to suit your needs
- We will discuss your definition and job description for the team leader role in your organisation, then explore what you would like the team leadership training to do.
- Once we have demonstrated an understanding of your learning needs for the team leaders we will develop an agenda for the training.
- We will also develop scenarios and case studies which relate closely to the participants’ experience and future challenges.
Team leadership training overview
The following gives details of our team leadership training. To get a better idea of how this could work for you, please contact us.
Pre workshop activity
- Meeting to discuss the participants’ needs and those of the organisation for team leadership training.
- Draft workshop outline tailored to your needs.
- Agreement of agenda.
- Participants complete a short questionnaire and read the ITD Work Style Model in preparation for the workshop.
Duration
The duration depends on your needs. It can be half a day to a full day, two half days, or series of sessions if change is to be underpinned with more practise and reflection.
Team leadership training agenda
This team leadership training workshop explores the foundations of being a Team Leader. It gives the participants an opportunity to learn, discuss and practice some of the key elements of the role. It leaves the participants with individual actions to implement with their teams.
- Introduction and objectives.
- What is the team leader role?
- Challenges with the team leader role.
- Priorities of the team leader role.
- Expectations of your manager.
- Expectations of your team.
- Dealing with the possible issue of members of the team not seeing you as the team leader.
- How to run professional One to Ones.
- How to run successful team meetings.
- Situations the team leader has to deal with immediately.
- Situations which need a longer term approach.
- Working with different personalities as a team leader.
- Explaining your expectations.
- required behaviours of the team leader and how you will be observed by your team.
- Representing your team to your manager.
- Representing your team to other departments.
- Participant situations
- Practice sessions
- Personal actions
Post workshop options
- Participants leave with individual actions.
- Email follow up of personal action plans.
- Suggested conversation with their line manager on their actions.
- Optional 121 coaching.
Why do organistaions choose ITD
We will tailor the training to suit your organisation’s needs and those of your participants.
We have been working with team leaders for many years in a range of organisations and can bring this experience to bear.
Our unique approach to action planning will give your team leaders the best chance of implementing actions from the training.
The flexible approach to fees means we will work with you to fit your budget requirements.
Our training consultants create an open and productive learning environment.
Our training is followed up with a range of activities including optional 121 coaching.
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