Team Building Training - Team Development Course - 1 Day

How do you get the best productivity from yourself and others?

To become more productive, we must adopt a particular set of skills and avoid some common errors.

All highly productive teams share the same six qualities.

What are the six traits of productive teams?

Goal focus is the ability to define what you want, and what your customers want.

If you know exactly what your clients want, and what you want, then you have the right conditions for a successful, mutually beneficial relationship.

Success means the achievement of goals, and therefore goal-setting is the first priority on the list of skills.

Communication is the art of transferring information and emotions from one mind to another.

Your communications need to be clear, persuasive, friendly and optimistic.

Be very cautious of the opposite communication style. Beware of communications that are imprecise, vague, unfriendly or negative and cynical.

Planning is the art of making ready before the event.

Too many people do not plan ahead. Instead, they spend their time trying to correct errors that they caused, by earlier lack of planning. Consequently, they are working in "crisis mode", trying to fix things that should not have happened in the first place.

Planning and productivity are like twins that you always find together.

It is inevitable that sometimes, a conflict will occur in the team.

This is when the team must manage the conflict in an objective, rational and professional manner. Too many teams do the opposite, allowing conflict situations to degenerate into a subjective, emotional, unprofessional, stand-up row.

High performing teams do not waste their time and energy in fighting each other. Instead, they work to create and sustain positive emotions.

Each team member needs to work on their own attitude, so that they come to work in the right frame of mind.

That means learning how to manage their own emotions and directing them towards the positive. We will show you how to do that.

Now you know how to manage your own emotions; you can use that knowledge to affect the emotions of others (colleagues, customers and suppliers), so that they feel positive emotions about you and your organisation. We will show you how to do that, too.

Use the 8 Part SMART to set and communicate goals.

Make your time more productive by prioritising according to this grid:

• Many people are often engaged in crisis management
• Others occupy themselves with busy-work (they are busy but non-productive)
• Some people waste their time in useless, fruitless activity
• High performing people spend the majority of their time the productive zone

We discuss the full meaning of the "productive zone".

You need to spend days in the productive zone, not the "busy" or "crisis management" or “fruitless” zones. We will show you how you can do that.

All success cycles look about the same, and they all involve the concept of feedback.

Feedback is information that tells you whether your current actions are taking you closer to your goals, or further away.

Use feedback loops to continually improve everything you do.

Feedback comes in two varieties: positive feedback and negative feedback.

How to give negative feedback, in a positive way. This is where much time is wasted. We spend too much time in fruitless conflicts, which are mismanaged and end up in upset. We need to know how to manage negative feedback and conflict situations in an objective, professional and timely manner.

Remember to give positive feedback whenever someone deserves it.

All conversations have an emotional impact. People react positively or negatively to what is said to them.

So, it is vital that every conversation in the workplace, is geared towards generating positive emotions, such as confidence, motivation, commitment and team working.

It is vital to cut out the conversations that are geared towards generating negative emotions such as anger, upset, anxiety and frustration.

We call this conversation control. The emotional consequences of which follow this pattern:

1. Conversations about a possible bad future, tend to provoke fear in the mind of the listener.
2. Conversations about past bad situations, tend to produce anger and upset in the mind of the listener.
3. Conversations about how the past was better than the present, will tend to provoke a feeling of dis-contentment.
4. Conversations about how the present and the future will be good, will tend to inspire feelings of optimism, confidence and motivation in the mind of the listeners.

Conversation control can be used in three ways:

1. Managing the content of what you say to other people.
2. Managing the content of conversations, that you allow other people to have with you.
3. Monitoring and controlling the content of the conversations that the team have amongst themselves.

You will have plenty of opportunity to work through the methods we teach you.

You will finish this team building training by making action plans for how you intend to put things into practice when you return to your workplace.