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How many times have you chosen to join a team, or been asked to join a team, only to find out that some of the personalities on the team make it impossible to get any work done. Have you ever tried to lead a team of co-workers and compared the effort to herding cats? What makes the difference between good team leaders and great team leaders? This workshop will attempt to answer those questions and give participants both the knowledge and tools to use with teams back at the office.

There are two major challenges facing most teams, whether newly formed or pre-existing. The first is communication – communication in a manner that allows everyone on the team to have a clear, unambiguous understanding of the issues and actions. The second one is Leadership and how to form a group of different personalities and cultures into a high performance work team.

What most of us are seeking when we’ve given a team to lead or participate with is not a committee – remember the old joke that an elephant is a horse designed by a committee – but a like-minded group of people who can accomplish what needs to be done as quickly as possible with no interference and no barriers.

Reality, on the other hand, is that any team is made up of people with different personalities, cultures and values and rarely does anything get accomplished without the team moving through the five stages of team development; forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. Of course, we all prefer to get through the first two as quickly as possible and get right into the norming and performing. However, how long the team spends in the forming and, most critically, the storming stages depends on how well each of us recognize the different types of personalities with which we are working and how we change our style of communication to meet the needs of those personalities.

There are many ways of determining the personalities that make up a team, some formal and some informal. This presentation will look at the most common as well as the most useful tools for making that determination.