Teams are more than the sum of individual members. This course, Leadership - Encouraging Teamwork, will guide you to dynamic teamwork and transform the success of your team, department, or organization. This course will give you the knowledge and tools required to motivate and empower team members. You will learn why teamwork is crucial to organizational success; how people work in teams; characteristics of excellent teams; the role of leadership in balancing results, processes, and relationships; how your team's performance rates; and how to use dialogue to have real communication with team members. You will be able to assess your knowledge of team skills prior to taking the course through a Pre-Course Assessment. Then, you will learn how to achieve high performance through teams. The mystery of developing team performance will be cleared up as you come to understand the characteristics of excellent teams, the stages of team development, and how to rate team performance.

Learning Objectives:

• Characteristics of excellent teams
• The role of leadership
• Learn to use dialogue to have real communication with team members