Training course

Building an Effective Team

Effective teamwork is fundamental to the success of any organisation. Whether the focus is on service, quality, cost, value, speed, efficiency, performance, or other similar goals, teams are the central methodology of most organisations in the private, non-profit, and government sectors.

With teams at the core of corporate strategy, your success as an organisation can often depend on how well you and other team members operate together.

In most teams, the energies of individual members work at cross-purposes. Individuals may work extraordinarily hard, but their efforts do not translate into team effort, and this results in wasted energy. By contrast, when a team becomes more aligned, a commonality of direction emerges, and individual energies harmonise. You have a shared vision and an understanding of how to complement each others’ efforts.

This one-day workshop is a basic course for team leaders and team members, designed to focus on the characteristics of an effective team player and the elements of an effective team. You will leave the workshop with plans for your personal development as a team player and ideas for developing your team.

  • 1 Day
  • Online or in person
  • Private courses available
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Course Objectives

  • Identify what makes a team effective
  • Understand the benefits of team building
  • Explore the barriers to effective teamwork and ways to overcome them
  • Understand stages of group development
  • Recognise the impact they have on the team as it develops
  • Value individual contribution to the team
  • Understand the need to reconcile personal opinions to the greater needs of the team
  • Identify different ways to motivate their team
  • Analyse current strengths and weaknesses of their team
  • Identify the areas their team must improve to be more effective
  • Develop an action plan for those improvements

Prerequisites

  • There are no pre-requisites for this course

Included

  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises

Course content Back to top

  1. Effective Teams
    What is a team? What makes an effective team? What are the benefits of team building What are the barriers that may prevent effective teamwork How can these barriers be overcome?
  2. Stages of team development
    Tuckmans stages of team development Identifying the teams needs at each stage
  3. Analysing the Team
    Team player types Strengths and weaknesses Team evaluation 16 elements of team
  4. Motivating the team
    Theories of motivation 7 tips for motivating staff How leadership style may have an impact on motivation
  5. Team Building Activities
    Communication and working better together Purpose and objectives Removing the barriers In-house or outsourced?
  6. Action Plans
    Personal Team

Public dates and prices Back to top

Prices are per delegate and exclude VAT.

  • Friday 19 February 2027

    Virtual, live online 9:30–16:30

    £345+ VAT

Can't make these dates? Ask about a private course on a date that suits you.

Training a team?

Run this course privately, on your dates

  • Private Flexible course content, flexible training date(s), flexible location(s), variable course length, private to your organisation - Courses can be held at one of our training venues or at another location convenient to you. Training can be set over a number of days or weeks to allow for practice time between training sessions.
  • Bespoke Bespoke private training can be based on an existing course or a number of lessons taken from several courses, we can also write bespoke courses for you based on your in-house systems or development program.
  • Virtual These courses can be attended from anywhere.

What delegates say Back to top

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“Revisit existing reports and review some of the summaries so that I improve the new reports I#39m writing to make a coherent and concise summary thats to the point”
E.W., Px Group, Business Writing Skills
“Everything was of value”
K.H., Merton County Council, Word Essentials
“The course was very informative and engaging”
R.D., Egger Uk Ltd, Excel Analysing and Presenting Data with Dashboards and Pivot Tables
“All parts relevant with good training materials”
C.L., Direct Rail Services, Excel Level 2

Which part of the course did you find particularly valuable

“A chance to reflect on how we might use sharepoint with our team”
E.B., Urc, SharePoint Overview

Following this training what are you going to do differently

“Create more accurate project plans.”
M.C., Taylormade Timber, Microsoft Project Essentials
“Very good, patient presentation. The trainer was very knowledgeable and very helpful”
B.O., Esh Group, Microsoft Project Essentials
“Really enjoyed the training and found it useful.”
K.M., Durham County Council, Microsoft Power BI Desktop

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