Effective Team Communication Training

Effective Team Communication Training

Course Description

Effective Team Communication Training Course will help solve the existing communication challenges among people of a team. It will also teach you techniques to avoid any potential miscommunication in the future. Success is likely to happen unless a team is entirely focused on and aligned with the organizational goals. Such unity is possible only through proper communication.

Effective teams reflect effective communication skills. While most of us believe we are good at communication, and in most cases, we are, why do we face multiple miscommunications? Which ring is missing in the chain of our skills? Effective team communication training helps you identify your weakness in communication and then transform it into strength. Effective team communication also enables you to gain helpful insight on your behavior styles and communication patterns and then learn new techniques to apply to get better results.

Differences among people are inevitable in a team. It is up to the people to let the differences be a problem and weakness or a tool to success. Proper communication skills ensure that the differences function as the diversity necessary to productivity and innovation. Effective team communication training brightens such differences and teaches you how to work towards your organizational goals. Therefore, instead of having friction and confusion within the team caused by differences, we show you the strategies and methods to take advantage of the differences and minimize the unpleasantness in times of stress.

To sum up, we will teach you communication, team-working, and leadership skills to help you enjoy working with each other. It will help you work effectively together as a team, communicate and cooperate with other people in other departments, and develop a stronger and more effective relationship with your managers and supervisors.

Course Objectives

• Understand the value of working as a team
• Develop team norms, ground rules, and team contracts
• Identify your team player style and how it can be used effectively with your own team
• Build team trust
• Identify the stages of team development and how to help a team move through them
• Recognize the critical role that communication skills will play in building and maintaining a team atmosphere
• Identify ways that team members can be involved and grow in a team setting

Course Modules

Lesson 1 – Getting Started

• The Parking Lot
• Workshop Objectives
• Action Plans & Evaluations

Lesson 2 – Defining Teams

• Making the Grade
• Looking Into Ourselves
• Debrief

Lesson 3 – Establishing Team Norms

• Characteristics of Teams
• Ground Rules
• Team Contracts

Lesson 4 – Working as a Team

• Putting it Into Perspective
• No Need for Black & White Thinking
• Degrees of Support

Lesson 5 – Your Team Player Type

• What’s Your Team Player Type?
• What Does it Mean To Have a Number?
• My Team Style

Lesson 6 – Building Team Trust

• Why Is Trust Important?
• Building Trust

Lesson 7 – The Stages of Team Development

• Forming
• Storming
• Norming
• Performing
• Adjourning
• Forming an Effective Team
• Making Connections

Lesson 8 – Team Building with TORI

• What Does TORI Mean?

Lesson 9 – Communication

• Defining Communication
• Listening Skills

Lesson 10 – Becoming a Good Team Player

• Attitude is Everything!