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Course Title:
The Dynamics of Team Leadership

Duration: 2 days

Course Overview
This programme gives participants the opportunity to examine and improve their team management and leadership skills.

Course Objectives


By the end of the programme, participants will have:
· Explored theoretical models of group dynamics and their application to team working.
· Analysed individual leadership competencies.
· Examined the issues of team communication and decision making.
· Considered the role of the team leader and its importance for effective team working.
· Experienced being a group member or leader and have received feedback from tutors on their participation.
· Looked at strategies to develop team members.

Course Content


Day One

- How do teams function?
- The stages of team development
- Leadership competencies
- Basic assumptions about groups
- Tuckman’s theory of group development
- Functional Leadership Model
- Group discussion
- The group will be given an appropriate topic to discuss; group members will have the opportunity to lead the discussion; tutor will observe and give feedback on group process and leadership role.

Day Two

- Handling crisis in the team
- Influencing and decision making in teams
- Team communication processes
- Balancing the needs of business with the needs of the team
- The leader as coach
- Developing team members using team building activities
- Action planning

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