Creating a Highly Effective Team through Team Training
By Leif Babin
To accomplish any goal, your team must work together. These team environments are never straightforward, static, or simple. They are often chaotic, dynamic, and ever-changing situations. To operate efficiently, you, as the leader, need a team that is collaborating effectively to overcome challenges and work together. Ideally, your team self-organizes and shares the belief that the team working together, leaning on each other’s strengths, can overcome any challenge or obstacle in their path.
Unfortunately, many teams don’t function this way. Egos get involved. Frictions arise over competition for shared resources. Miscommunication and misalignment can derail even the best performers and best-performing teams. Disagreements can erupt when people don’t agree on how to accomplish a goal. Team performance declines, especially when the team is misaligned on the goal. If you allow these problems to persist, they inevitably create a toxic culture with a lack of trust and respect. This can infect the whole team and lead to mission failure.
How do I create a winning team, with leaders at every level?
In order to build a team of highly motivated, passionate, engaged leaders at every level, you have to take ownership. It is up to you to get the team on track and focus their efforts in a way that empowers them to execute the mission. You need a structured set of principles that re-calibrate your team. Allow them to refocus on the mission at hand, and offer them the flexibility to own the solutions to problems as they come up. They need to understand what good performance looks like–what their leaders need from them in order for the team to be successful.
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When you invest in your people, they are far more likely to understand and believe in the mission and the team. You want to train your people to take ownership of overcoming obstacles, functioning as a team that puts the overall team and the strategic mission before themselves, and prioritizing their efforts on the things that truly matter to accomplish the overarching goal. The solution is simple.
Team leadership training.
Team leadership training takes many forms. It could involve a trip with your team to a leadership conference, attending a workshop with your colleagues, participating in a team-building training activity, or participating in a book club at work. In whatever way your group chooses to engage in team leadership training, the ultimate goal is to foster teamwork and growth by learning and applying new skills together.
In Echelon Front’s 10+ year history, we have serviced thousands of clients through various team leadership training methods. We host leadership conferences, facilitate experiential training, run workshops, and develop and execute long-term training programs. One of our most scalable and affordable solutions is our Extreme Ownership Academy Implementation Program. This program is utilized by hundreds of teams as a standalone tool to introduce and reinforce the foundational principles of Extreme Ownership. But it can also be used in conjunction with our other offerings as well.
Learn more about this scalable team leadership training, called the Implementation Program, by reading more or speaking with one of our team members.