Building and Leading High Performance Teams

The ability to build and lead high performance hybrid teams in the new normal is key to professional and organizational success. This 2-day course aims to help entrepreneurs and business managers understand their unique strengths within the context of a team, as well as the strengths of their team members.

Through experiential exercises and 360 evaluations, participants will be introduced to techniques that will help them discover, develop and motivate the talents in their team to enhance collaboration, productivity and drive business growth in their organizations.

At the end of the 2-day course, participants will be able to:

Understand their unique strengths within the team and their team members' strengths
Build and lead high-performance teams with established coaching toolkit and resources
Use a strengths-based methodology to build team dynamics and activate team collaboration

Instill energy and synergize efforts that fuel team performance to achieve organizational goals and business growth

Topics/Structure
Day 1: Strength Based Self and Team Development

• Discover your unique talents and personalized leadership strengths Adopt the language and vocabulary framework that facilitates better communication and understanding with diverse audiences Employ your leadership strengths to build connections

Day 2: Team Dynamics

• Lead high-performance teams with Gallup coaching toolkit and resources Instill energy and synergize efforts that activate team collaboration and fuel team performance Recognize and optimize your Team’s DNA

Who Should Attend

• Entrepreneurs, Team Leads, Supervisors, Managers and Business Professionals who are keen on understanding their unique strengths within the context of a team, as well as the strengths of their team members.

Assessment

Participants have to meet a minimum attendance rate of 75% and have to complete all assessment(s) required by the course. Only upon meeting the minimum attendance and passing the assessment will participants be issued a Certificate of Completion.

Participants who fail the assessment will be given a chance for re-assessment at a fee of SGD108.00 (incl. 8% GST). Each participant is allowed 1 re-assessment. The re-assessment has to be taken within 7 calendar days from the end of the course date.  

It will be held on a weekday specified by SMU Academy and conducted during office hours. Please note that re-assessment fees are not supported by SSG Funding.

Participants who meet the minimum attendance rate but do not achieve a pass for the assessment will be issued a Certificate of Participation.

Participants are required to bring their laptop to access the course materials, class exercises and individual assessment(s). 

Learning Activities

• Aside from the seminar-styled teaching method used in class, there will also be extensive use of experiential learning methods to put into practice the theories that have been learned. Normally, such learning activities will be done in groups.