Are you tired of leading or being part of a team that doesn’t seem to work effectively?

Do you feel frustrated with a lack of common goals, commitment, and respect among team members? If so, TrainSMART has the solution for you.

TrainSMART’s Building Successful Teams In The Workplace Training is designed to help you identify your team’s purpose, maximize individual strengths, and create a more productive team environment. In just 1.5 days, we’ll guide you through each team’s phases and teach you how to manage the process to become productive.

Our Building Successful Teams Training will help you define the importance of communicating goals and vision, identify and build on individual strengths, create ground rules everyone can live with, and utilize techniques to lead the team and keep them motivated and focused. We’ll help your team accept differences and value one another, creating a more respectful and productive work environment.

Our team of experts has designed the Building Successful Teams workshop with a clear outline that covers the characteristics of successful teams, team stages (forming, storming, norming, performing), building the team (team purpose and goals, identifying skills, strengths, and potential liabilities, identifying roles and responsibilities, understanding team dynamics), ground rules (communication etiquette, email and voice mail, meeting rules, team values), facilitating a team building session, leading the team (leadership skills, keeping employees motivated, staying focused on the goals), team challenges workshop, project teams, and sunset reviews.

This workshop is ideal for anyone who has participated as a team member or is responsible for leading a team. It’s available in the following delivery formats: Full Day Training Workshop, and we can bring it to your location.

The Problem

  • Lack of a common goal
  • No team commitment
  • Lack of respect
  • Ineffective team communication

The TrainSMART Solution

  • Identify the phases every team goes through and how to manage the process to become productive.
  • Define the importance of communicating goals and vision
  • Identify and build on individual strengths
  • Create ground rules that everyone can live with
  • Utilize techniques to lead the team and keep motivated and focused
  • Help your squad accept differences and value one another

Building Successful Teams Training Outline

Characteristics Of Successful Teams

This section will explore the key attributes that define high-performing teams. It will cover aspects such as clear communication, mutual trust, shared goals, diversity of skills, adaptability, and accountability. Participants will learn to identify these characteristics and understand their importance in team success.

Team Stages: Forming, storming, norming, performing

  • Forming: The initial stage is when team members get to know each other.
  • Storming: The phase where conflicts and challenges emerge as team members assert their individuality.
  • Norming is when the team begins to work more effectively as they establish processes and build relationships.
  • Performing: The final stage is when the team functions at a high level, focusing on achieving goals. Participants will learn to recognize these stages and understand how to navigate them effectively.

Building The Team

This section will cover the foundational elements of creating a solid team:

  • Team purpose and goals: Defining clear objectives that align with organizational goals.
  • Identify skills, strengths, and potential liabilities: Assessing team members’ capabilities and areas for improvement.
  • Identify roles and responsibilities: Clearly define each member’s role and expectations.
  • Understanding team dynamics: Recognizing how different personalities and work styles interact.

Ground Rules

Establishing clear guidelines for team interaction is crucial. This part will cover:

  • Communication etiquette: Setting standards for respectful and effective communication.
  • Email and voice mail: Protocols for efficient use of these communication tools.
  • Meeting rules: Guidelines for productive and inclusive meetings.
  • Team values: Defining shared values that guide team behavior and decision-making.

Facilitating A Team Building Session

This section will provide practical guidance on planning and executing effective team-building activities. It will cover choosing appropriate exercises, setting objectives for team-building sessions, and facilitating discussions that promote team cohesion and understanding.

Leading The Team

Here, we’ll focus on the critical role of team leadership:

  • Leadership skills: Essential qualities and skills for effective team leadership.
  • Keeping employees motivated: Strategies for maintaining team enthusiasm and engagement.
  • Staying focused on the goals: Techniques for keeping the team aligned with its objectives amid day-to-day challenges.

Team Challenges Workshop

This interactive session will present common team challenges and allow participants to work through potential solutions. It may include case studies, role-playing exercises, or problem-solving scenarios to apply the concepts learned throughout the course.

Project Teams And Sunset Reviews

The final section will address specific considerations for project-based teams:

  • Forming and managing teams for specific projects.
  • Conducting effective project post-mortems or “sunset reviews” to capture learnings and improve future team performance.
  • Transitioning team members at the end of a project.

Target Audience

Anyone who has participated as a team member or is responsible for leading a team would benefit from this workshop

Delivery Options

Building Successful Teams is available in the following delivery formats: Full Day Training Workshop

Team Building Workshops

Virtual Team Management: Remote workers connecting via video conference technology.

Strategic, Tech-Focused, Results Driven

Managing Virtual Teams

Boost collaboration, productivity, and innovation by sending your virtual team leaders and members to our strategic training focused on implementing best practices for communication, relationship building, and results.

Managing Virtual Teams Training

Team Building Workshops: Teams engaged in group activities, building rapport and trust.

Strategic, Cohesive, Empowering

Building Successful Teams

Boost teamwork, collaboration, and results by sending your leaders and team members to our strategic and empowering workshop focused on building shared goals, trust, and effective working relationships.

Building Successful Teams Training

Building Successful Teams Workshop: A diverse team laughing together while completing a team building exercise outdoors.

Insightful, Strategic, Actionable

Developing & Managing Effective Teams

Boost team alignment, collaboration, and performance by leveraging our insightful team assessments and strategic development framework to create targeted action plans tailored to your team’s specific needs.

Managing Effective Teams Training

Team Building 101 Workshop: A new team leader presenting team goals on a whiteboard to engaged employees.

Fundamental, Interactive, Empowering

Team Building For
New Leaders

Boost new team leader success by leveraging our fundamental yet interactive team development training where they will gain the core techniques to expedite team growth, cultivate collaboration, and drive results.

Team Building For New Leaders

Building Teamwork & Commitment Workshop: Small groups sharing ideas while referring back to action plans posted on the walls.

Insightful, Trust-Building, Customized

Building Teamwork & Commitment

Reignite stalled teams by leveraging our insightful DiSC®-based workshop to rebuild trust and commitment with customized delivery focused directly on your team’s specific needs.

Building Teamwork & Commitment

Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Workshop: Multi-generational team intently reviewing performance metrics on digital tablets.

Insightful, Customized, Transformational

Five Behaviors of A Cohesive Team

Get to the root of team dysfunction and catalyze performance by sending your group to our customizable workshop experience built around the renowned Five Behaviors model.

Five Behaviors Of A Cohesive Team

 

Need A Virtual Instructor-Led Team Training?

Building Virtual Teams

This virtually facilitated series helps you identify team purpose, maximize strengths, and create a more productive team environment.

 

 

Building Virtual Teams

Team Building & Improv In A Covid Era

The highly interactive, fun team-building activity brings Improv to a virtual environment and incorporates activities that incorporate your company’s core values.

 

Team Building & Improv

Launching High-Performing Teams

This half-day workshop for intact teams allows the group to create a shared understanding of what great teamwork looks like and how each person can add their unique value.

 

Launching High-Performing Teams

Launching New Teams With Lego Serious Play

This program uses the power of storytelling and making 3-dimensional models to quickly develop psychological safety and trust among team members.

 

Team Building With Lego Serious Play

MacGyver Team Challenge

Learn how to develop an agile mindset, diverge to seek more wild and novel ideas (Stretching what is possible), and teach tools that help reverse the assumptions we impose on ourselves.

 

MacGyver Team Challange

The TrainSmart Solution

TrainSmart can become your full-service training department, delivering solutions to all your on-site training needs. When you partner with us, you gain several advantages, including:

Fully customized content and delivery: We customize our training systems to fit your team, department, and/or your entire organization.

Flexible scheduling: We deliver a single session or multiple sessions to meet your timeframes, work schedules, and employee needs/expectations.

Reduced overall costs: On-site is typically less expensive than sending employees off-site. In addition, on-site allows us to develop common languages and terms that reduce communication issues when your employees are back on the job.

Immediate on-the-job application: Employees can immediately apply what they have learned.

Confidentiality is not compromised: What happens on-site, stays on-site.

Building cohorts teams: We can build cohorts teams that result in more productive, more efficient relationships.

Cutting-edge technology: We stay on top of all the latest technological developments in the industry, always bringing the most efficient and cost-effective methods into your organization.

Industry-leading experience: Our best-in-the-industry facilitators bring years of extensive experience and expertise into your company.

Recent Clients

  • Developed & delivered building successful teams training for Housing & Urban Development in Chicago.

Need On-Site Building Successful Teams Training?

Ready to discuss your training needs with TrainSMART? Schedule a 30-minute call to learn more about each other and determine if we are a good fit. This is a no-obligation consultation.

We look forward to hearing from you. Call us at 800-807-8030 or email at inquiries@trainsmartinc.com.