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Manager Moments: Building a High Performing Team

7 Ways Managers Can Improve Team Performance

Seven video tutorials, each running 6-7 minutes

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Help managers assess their team and raise performance.

The 7 short learning modules in this series help managers assess their team’s strengths and needs while providing practical tips on specific things that can be done to take team performance to a higher level.

Employees bring their individual strengths to a team. They also bring their unique perspectives, values, beliefs, generational differences, and personalities. Bringing out the best in everyone, and building on strengths for the common good of the team and the organization, is what building a high-performing team is all about. 

This Series delivers short blasts of practical wisdom for managers through seven "how to" videos:

• How to Assess Team Strengths and Needs
  Is your team strong? Or, is it troubled, stalled, or simply going through the motions? How do you know? This module uses the characteristics of a high-performing team to help managers assess team strengths and needs—the first step toward building a high-performing team.
• How to Build Team Unity
  In addition to being of great benefit to the organization, a unified team provides employees with some of their most basic emotional needs: the need to Achieve, the need to Belong, and the need to Contribute. This module shows you how to maintain a balance of these ABCs, and build team unity.
• How to Diagnose Team Problems
  Is your team in a slump? Is there a lack of enthusiasm? Team problems ranging from management missteps to problem employees can wreak havoc on morale and productivity. This module describes 2 common types of team problems and offers practical advice for handling them.
• How to Improve Team Communication
  How do you share bad news with your team? What about good news…or a change in the company’s vision? Communicating well is the key to strong team leadership. This module provides practical advice on 3 critical areas of communication that managers must focus on to build a high-performing team.
• How to Mediate a Dispute
  Occasionally, conflict erupts on a team and employees are unable to resolve it without their manager's help. Getting in the middle of an emotionally-charged dispute is never easy. This module provides tips on how to guide team members to an acceptable resolution as they work through conflict on their own.
• How to Restore Team Unity
  Are your team members out of synch? Is morale slipping? Are cliques forming? This module explains what to do when team unity falters, helps you assess what's causing the problem, and identifies ways to restore the ABCs of a unified team so you can get your team  back on track.
• Understanding the Stages of a Team
  Teams are always in flux. They go in and out of certain stages depending on circumstances. What can you do to manage the developmental stages of your team? The first step is to understand the influences that impact a team and the natural stages (forming, storming, norming, and performing) that result.