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Leading Teams

Learn how to lead through others and strengthen the critical team leadership skills needed to drive greater performance and results.

Upcoming Sessions
Location
Fontainebleau
Duration
5 days
Fees
11,600

Content Overview

Effective team leadership begins with assembling the right people, but creating lasting value for your organisation requires far more than that. Leading Teams leverages the latest thinking and research on team leadership to deliver fresh, evidence-based perspectives and actionable ideas for leading successfully through others. 

As you reflect on your own leadership approach, what patterns emerge when leading teams? What assumptions, biases, and behaviours may be helping or hindering your effectiveness? 

Leaders must learn how to align and lever on their teams’ diverse expertise, enable effective decision-making and empower their teams to take ownership and perform at their best. Over five days, you will explore the following critical team leadership topics:

Building the Right Teams

Understanding Team Leadership Challenges

Explore the realities of leading through others including identifying different sources of motivation, delegation, influence and the interpersonal dynamics that shape your team's individual performance.

Building and Leading High Performing Teams

Understand how to create alignment, foster collaboration and overcome process gaps in local, global and virtual teams. 

Leveraging on Diversity and Driving Empowerment

Leveraging on Team Expertise

Learn how to recognise and draw upon diverse expertise, perspectives, and social capital within your teams effectively to achieve better outcomes.

Drive Effective Decision Making

Identify common biases and assumptions, improve the quality of team judgments, and develop more robust team decision-making processes.

Resolving Team Conflict

Explore practical conflict resolution techniques to manage conflicts, address competing priorities, and navigate difficult team situations constructively.

Leading Through Influence and Empowerment

Building Executive Alignment

Learn how to align stakeholders, negotiate effectively and build commitment around shared objectives to create and capture value across your organisation.

Power, Persuasion, and Influence 

Strengthen your ability to persuade and influence others beyond your formal authority, build credibility, and exercise leadership with integrity.

Implementing Change as a Team

Learn how to leverage your team members’ networks and social capital to overcome resistance and navigate complex change initiatives successfully.

The programme integrates engaging, real-world case studies, computer-based simulations, role-playing and coaching, and deep discussion with faculty, experts and diverse peers to accelerate your capacity for team leadership. You will emerge with a deeper understanding of yourself as a leader, a broader repertoire of team leadership approaches, and a practical roadmap to create a winning team and achieve results through others.