Team Leadership
Developing high-performance teams through team leadership training
For a team to succeed, it takes more than just grouping people in an org chart. Lack of shared purpose, unclear goals and roles, a lack of mutual accountability, and ineffective leadership are the most common reasons teams fail. Our Team Leadership training program teaches managers to diagnose their team’s development and apply the right leadership style to build and sustain high-performance teams.
It is possible to improve your teams’ ability to execute projects, grow the business, and be agile by teaching them these leadership skills.
Take advantage of every team's potential by investing in team leader training
Leadership and team manager training can help your organization build high-performance teams.
Team Leadership course is designed to provide team leaders with the process, tools, and leadership skills they need to empower team members, improve productivity, and increase team success.
Blanchard’s team leader training course teaches managers the predictable stages of team development and the leadership styles they need to move them forward quickly and effectively.
Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
We can deliver Team Leadership in-person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or delivered in a self-directed online or moderated online version, so your leaders can learn how to optimize their team’s performance wherever they are and whenever they have time.
1 Day Instructor-led Course
The Team Leadership course can be delivered as in-person one-day experience designs. The course features engaging materials, videos, and activities that teach participants Team Performance Mindset, Diagnosing Team Needs, and Team Leadership Behaviors.
Prework: LAUNCH — Engaging prework assignments, including an assessment, that explain key Team Leadership concepts
Day 1 LEARN — Learn the Team Leadership Mindset and Skillset
Day 1 PRACTICE — Practice mindset and skillset through interactive assignments
Day 1 Apply — Reintroduces and summarizes the high-performance team road map. Introduces the action plan
Post Work: APPLY — Revisit the learning portal and access tools, including the Teams Assessment multi-rater Report, Teams Assessment Interpretation Guide Team, and Charter Worksheets.
Virtual Instructor-led Course
The Team Leadership virtual course is presented in three two-hour sessions. The virtual sessions offer learners an engaging experience that includes instruction, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills.
- Virtual Session 1 prepares you to learn the Team Leadership Mindset and Skillset
- Virtual Sessions 2 and 3 teach the skills and mindset to diagnose their team’s stage of development and act in a way that contributes to its performance.
- Participants receive a set of online tools to aid in mastering the content and using it with others
We have two online solutions—Team Leadership Online Overview and Teaming and Collaboration Online Overview — that cover the course’s core content and most important ideas for different audiences.
Team Leadership Online Overview
Online Overview is for team leaders and focuses on leadership behaviors. This 35-minute online overview contains one- to five-minute micro-learning videos, interactions, and tools. This content is ideal for learners who need browsable tips and bits of knowledge for just-in-time help for moments of need.
Teaming and Collaboration Online Overview
Teaming and Collaboration Online Overview is for the team members, and focuses on team interactions. Experienced as a 35-minute online overview with one- to five-minute micro-learning videos, interactions, and tools. These flexible kbassets can be used to refresh or reinforce the content.
Digital kbassets
Set of micro-activities, including videos, interactions, and worksheets, that learners can access in moments of need to support ongoing learning, performance support, reinforcement, and custom learning journeys.
Team leadership is critical, so why is it often left to chance?
Meetings are unproductive and inefficient, according to 71% of senior managers.
Meetings held by new managers are 29% higher than those held by experienced managers.
Team Leadership Training Drives Team Outcomes
A high-performance team helps your organization solve complex organizational problems, execute more quickly, make better decisions, enhance creativity, and produce consistently superior results by bringing together its members’ considerable skills, strengths, and experiences. In Blanchard’s team leadership and team building training course, managers will learn how to improve their teams’ collaborations, innovations, and effectiveness.
Improve Collaboration
In high-performance teams, complementary skills, strengths, and experiences surpass each member's capabilities.
Achieve superior results
A team that executes the strategy meets goals, and achieves superior results is empowered and accountable.
Boost innovation
As a team, members share ideas, talents, and viewpoints to solve problems creatively and develop innovative solutions.
Ensure high performance
Your organization benefits from the skills and benefits of team members who have been part of a cohesive, winning team.
Are you ready to get started?
Contact us today to find out how we can help your managers develop the skills they need to lead high-performing teams.
