Foundations of Leadership: Leader's Role in Stages of Team Development Sample Agenda

Goals

• Discover and practice a leader's role in setting and achieving goals, gaining support, resolving conflicts, motivating team members, and sustaining commitment.
• Recognize where your organization or team currently stands and choose the appropriate leadership style.
• Learn to identify team behaviors and respond effectively.
• Identify appropriate directive and/or supportive coaching techniques to improve team performance.

Four-Hour Workshop

• Warm-up stretches and answering questions about leadership.
• Define the word "leadership."
• Review the Leadership Assessment Results.
• Facilitated challenge around Directing and Coaching skills.
• Review Tuckman's Model (forming, storming, norming, performing).
• Review coaching skills.
• Facilitated challenge around Collaborator and Visionary skills.
• Assess team's current stages of development.
• Small group discussion around group observation forms.