Teambuilding Essentials

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Intermediate

Intermediate

Duration: 4 h

Language : English

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Why start this Playlist?

The success of a manager is highly dependent on a team. To wisely guide a team and lead it to achieve objectives, managers should develop specific knowledge and skills. The aim of the course is to provide learners with a versatile understanding of teambuilding, and its main components such as internal communication, meetings, brainstorming session, team vision, feedback and so on.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this playlist, you will be able to:

Choose efficient team communication strategies
Conduct more productive meetings and brainstorming
Create a concise and clear project vision statement
Deliver different types of feedback to improve employee performance

Prerequisites

No prerequisites: this Playlist does not require any special knowledge to start.

Playlist Content

Skill 1

How to improve team communication?

Achieve clear team communication

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Why Team Building Is The Most Important Investment You'll Make

Team building has a bad rap. In most companies when a supervisor says, “We’re going to do some team building!” employees start re-running old episodes of The Office. It’s one thing to see it on TV, but getting a real-life taste of your manager mimick...

Introductory

6 proven project team communication strategies

Project teams are in a constant state of communication via email, videoconferences, telephone calls, texts, face-to-face discussions and even nonverbal interactions. Whatever media they use, project teams will increase their chances of achieving thei...

Introductory

What Are the Challenges to Team Communication?

In order to be effective as a team, team members need to be able to communicate with each other. As a team begins to work together, several challenges to team communication begin to arise. In order to be able to work through these challenges, it is i...

Introductory

Communication Patterns for High Performing Teams - Leadership Training

Leadership coach Susanne Madsen exposes the patterns of communication that are exhibited by high-performing project teams.

Introductory

Skill 2

How to make team meetings more productive?

Master the science of productive meetings

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How to Run a More Effective Meeting

The article from the New York Times summarizes the best practices to run an efficient meetings from more than 500 chief executives

Intermediate

Brainstorming Techniques to Create New Innovative Ideas

“Brainstorming is a good way to pick a lot of thoughts quickly and intuitively. It's best to do this with a group of diverse people, so you have lots of different brains to explore”

Intermediate

No More Flipping Meetings

Learn about the journey of trying to improve how we connect in meetings. Taking the lessons of flipped classrooms, this speaker flips meetings to create more authentic and meaningful connections with colleagues.

Intermediate

Creative thinking - how to get out of the box and generate ideas

Why/Which/How/Where/What/When/Experiment. A quick jump out of the box is more insight ful than a lifetime of standard thinking.

Intermediate

Skill 3

Creating a shared vision that inspires your team

Developing a team vision statement

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How to Engage Employees Through Your Company Vision Statement

When the Walt Disney Co. was created in 1923, it had a simple vision. The company wanted to be the “world’s leading producers and providers of entertainment and information.” Furthermore, it sought to “develop the most creative, innovative and profit...

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7 Simple Ways to Lead by Example

“Great leaders remind themselves regularly that actions speak louder than words”.

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Google Trains Its Managers to Create a Team Vision With This Framework. You Can Use It, Too

"Back in 2002, Google ran an experiment to see if managers were absolutely necessary. It removed bosses from the equation. As you might imagine, the test didn't go so well. Not only did Google find that managers were critical, but it also identified...

Introductory

Skill 4

Why is feedback needed

Using feeedback to stimulate professional growth

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5 Reasons Why Feedback Is Important

leadership means supporting and encouraging talents, because a real leader understands that a company or team is only as successful and great as the people it is made of. Feedback is like the water for flowers, without it, they won’t bloom.

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How to Deliver Positive Feedback

The article deals with the benefits and pitfalls of positive feedback. How can the manager deliver positive feedback to change or eliminate behaviors that detract from performance?

Introductory

7 Tips for Delivering Negative Feedback to Employees Without Being a Jerk

The article provides useful recommendations for managers who seek to learn the art of giving feedback in such a way to have a positive impact on employees without hurting their feelings.

Introductory

How to use others' feedback to learn and grow | Sheila Heen

Intermediate

3 Ways I Get Real FeedBack From My Team

If you want to become a better leader, and get more feedback from your team

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