Team Building & Leadership Speaker Seminars

  

Using Effective Team Dialogue to Achieve Maximum Results

Speaker: Gary Lim, M.A.

Location: On-Site only, by request

Length: One day seminar

Number of Participants: Up to 30 per session

Materials: Comprehensive attendee course notebook

Follow-Up Monitoring: No-charge MVP six month follow-up program

“Using Effective Team Dialogue to Achieve Maximum Results”

Understand team dialogue skills that allow any team to work together more effectively and achieve better results. Today, most of the work being performed to achieve corporate goals is done so in team settings. While a team of skilled and motivated teammates is a real asset, unless they communicate effectively with each other, little will get accomplished. Problems that arise with teams are typically more likely to be related to the team’s lack of communication, rather than lack of skills. Teams with highly-skilled and highly-motivated members tend to run a higher risk of conflict, thereby risking the team’s ability to meet its goals in a timely manner. This seminar will show attendees how to create a team dialogue framework that allows the team to concentrate on its objectives, by enabling more open and collaborative solution of team issues.

How You Will Benefit

·      Learn good team dialogue and communication practices

·      Team dialogue framework results in fewer misunderstandings

·      Better communication leads to more efficient and effective collaboration, with fewer schedule delays

·      Gain optimal reacting skills that allow you to enhance a positive dialogue, or re-direct a negative dialogue back to a productive course

·      Learn the dialogue of performance feedback that keeps the team focused on achieving its goals

·      Acquire the ability to react positively to criticism and stay focused on tasks at hand

Topics to Be Covered

·      The team dialogue process and barriers

·      Active and nonverbal listening, and facilitative questions

·      Paraphrasing

·      Empathic listening

·      Reacting to another person’s point of view

·      Giving feedback and constructive criticism

·      How to react to three types of criticism and stay focused

Who Should Attend

Team leaders, team members, executives, managers, and supervisors in any team-oriented function, including sales, marketing, engineering, development, production, and manufacturing.