Module 2

Making Good Teams Great

Not only the individual skill level defines the quality of a team. It is foremost the way how they interact, overcome adversity, find solutions, make decisions and create impact – jointly. To establish such a quality the manager navigates the team through its life cycle.

  • Reading Team Dynamics
  • Identifying Different Team Phases
  • Creating Space to Act Jointly
  • Overcoming Strategy-Execution-Blocker
  • Unfolding the Team’s Performance Potentials

Day 1

The Mental Frame

Cooperation and development of potential require a high degree of autonomy from Teams.

The Behavioural and Linguistic Tools for Leading Teams

  • The extended Team Phase Model: How teams build trust and exceed performance Expectations.
  • The Team Profiler: “Reading“ and leading teams effectively.
  • Team Dynamics: Managing complex interactions of different people.
  • Recognizing cooperation blocker: Creating predictable and reliable behavioural dynamics inorganizations.

The Case

  • Thomas, the introvert, and Joe, the extrovert, need to cooperate but are getting on each other’s nerves.

Interaction Guidelines and Exercises

  • Case Studies
  • Role Simulations
  • Reflection of own case situations
  • Review of the first practical phase

Day 2

The Cases

  • Theresa and Amin are new to the team. The colleagues react with resistance.
  • Simon, the manager, changes the team and disrupts well-rehearsed processes.

Transfer

  • Reflection of own case situations.
  • Applying the Team Phase Modell
  • Practical steps to lead the team to the next level of effectiveness