CAVU

Team Development Workshops

High Performing Team (HPT) | Team Leader Program (TLP) | Maximizing Team Talent and Followership | Team Functioning Supercharge | Boosting Team Commitment | Purpose-driven Goal Setting | Debrief Power | Ethics: the Science of Ought

High Performing Team (HPT) 
2-day workshop
In today’s competitive environment, business teams are required to do more with less.  But teams can only meet this challenge when they are high performing.  The High Performing Team workshop is preceded by a Team Assessment Survey and telephone interviews with team leaders and team members. Information gathered through the survey and phone calls is used to customize your High Performing Team workshop to meet the needs of your team. 
In the High Performing Team workshop, your team will accomplish the following:

  1. Develop a team purpose and write specific goals aligned with team purpose
  2. Systematically analyze team talent and address skill gaps
  3. Develop effective communication, decision-making, meeting management, and accountability goals
  4. Assess and improve your team’s buy-in, empowerment, and morale
  5. Create an action plan with specific steps to improve team effectiveness

The High Performing Team workshop is designed in a 2-day format, but may be customized to accommodate organizations with less time available for training.

Team Leader Program (TLP)
 2-day workshop
CAVU’s Team Leader Program is a 2-day, intensive workshop for new team leaders (or experienced team leaders who desire to hone their leadership skills) that explores six critical areas of team functioning. 
The Team Leader Program will strengthen your leaders in the following areas:

  1. Develop a team purpose and specific goals aligned with the team’s purpose
  2. Identify personal strengths and developmental needs, as a leader
  3. Analyze team talent assets and skill gaps
  4. Learn how to set effective team communication, meeting management, decision-making and accountability norms
  5. Learn three ways to gain team buy-in
  6. Assess the drivers and barriers to team effectiveness
  7. Learn how to build team morale
  8. Build action plans to achieve better team results

The Team Leader Program is designed in a 2-day format, but may be customized to accommodate organizations with less time available for training.

Maximizing Team Talent and Followership
Half-day workshop
To be adequately understood, leadership must be seen for what it is:  part of a duality of a relationship.  There can be no leaders without followers.  This half-day, interactive workshop explores the role of the follower.  Participants will gain a keener insight into this role by learning to recognize the four basic follower types and understanding how to motivate each type of follower to greater levels of productivity.  Additionally, leaders will learn how to systematically analyze team talent and address specific skill gaps.

Team Functioning Supercharge
Half-day workshop
CAVU’s Team Functioning Supercharge workshop focuses on improving the following four most common areas of team dysfunction:

  1. Communication
  2. Decision-making
  3. Meeting management
  4. Team accountability

Boosting Team Commitment
 Half-day workshop
The most successful athletic, business or military teams always have high levels of commitment to the team and team goals.  But gaining buy-in is not always easy, as team members must give up some degree of autonomy for the team.  CAVU’s Boosting Team Commitment workshop explores three critically effective methods for gaining buy-in that will propel your team to new levels of productivity.

Purpose-driven Goal Setting
Half-day workshop
Teams that have little impact often consist of members who do not understand the purpose of the team, are confused about who is responsible for what, or have unclear performance expectations.  In CAVU’s Purpose-driven Goal Setting workshop you will learn how to develop the purpose of your team, write specific goals that are aligned with the team’s purpose, and learn how to effectively benchmark team goals.

Debrief Power
 Half-day workshop
Our CAVU facilitators are experts at debriefing.  In the Debrief Power workshop, your team will learn how to improve their productivity and performance by using proven debriefing techniques.  Your team will develop skills in

  1. Creating an atmosphere that encourages openness and honesty
  2. Focusing on facts instead of jumping to conclusions
  3. Avoiding getting trapped in unimportant details
  4. Keeping the team focused on performance improvement, not on blame
  5. Creating action steps that implement process or behavioral change

Your team will see greatly improved results and increased team cohesion when they develop proper debriefing skills.

Ethics—The Science of “Ought”
Half-day seminar
In the world of business, ethics serve as our guideposts in determining what we "ought" to do in a particular situation.  CAVU’s Ethics – The Science of “Ought” seminar briefly examines the history, terminology and evolution of ethics and then looks at practical applications in the business environment.  Recent corporate scandals serve as a powerful reminder that building and maintaining an ethical business culture is a challenge that must be met as a critical, foundational component to success.