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Building and Improving Project Team Functionality

 

All projects require effective teamwork to achieve quality outcomes. Learn how to improve the functionality and accountability of your project team given these unique challenges:

• Getting the team up and running quickly and efficiently
• Managing accountability without direct line authority
• Helping team members manage competing priorities
• Deciding when to address group dynamic issues and when to ignore them
• How to effectively confront issues that are jeopardizing team success
• Gaining team member buy in 

Value to the Participant

- Assist the team in taking accountability for results
- Learn why most teams are dysfunctional and what they can do to change that
- Understand what changes must be made to allow the team to become functional and accountable
- Assist the team in identifying and working through their real issues

 

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Seminar Outline

What Is Required for a Team to Operate
Creating a team charter
fining measures of success
Defining roles and responsibilities
Agreeing on team processes
Creating a shared fate
Address real issues

How to Set the Team up to be Accountable
Defining success, measures and validating impact
Creating an accountability board
Defining what we are willing to give up to achieve success

Dependencies on the Project Manager
Understanding the messiah syndrome
How to avoid dependence
How to avoid the group turning on the project manager

Behaviors that Destroy Team Functionality and How to Eliminate Them
Ignoring real issues
Pairing
Taking real issues to the leader

How to Effectively Confront Real Issues
Avoiding group think or trips to Abilene
No fault formula for confrontation
Addressing dysfunctional behavior

Team Problem Solving
Team member roles in the problem-solving process
How to leverage team member strengths
Authority Versus Influence
Understanding the difference
How to have influence without authority

Team Member Role Definitions and Keys to Success
Facilitator • Project manager
Team leader
Team member

Understanding and Addressing Style Differences
Understanding the differences in how people absorb information
Understanding the differences in how people make decisions
How different people engage with the team
How to address and bridge these differences

Conflict Resolution
Diagnosing the situation
Achieving commitment
Addressing real issues between team members

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This program can be applied toward the:

 
  Sessions  
Mon.-Tue., Oct. 28-29
8:30am-4:30pm
Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions)
Instructor: Eric Coryell
Fee: $845
CEUs: 1.4/PDUs: 14
Program No. 5025-0508
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Thu.-Fri., Mar. 6-7, 2014
8:30am-4:30p.m.pm
Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions)
Instructor: Eric Coryell
Fee: $845
Enrollment Limit: 25
Program No. 5025-6296
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For more information, contact:
  Maribeth Sacho, Program Associate, msacho@uwm.edu, 414-227-3337
Anne O'Meara, Program Director, aomeara@uwm.edu, 414-227-3311
 

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