Future growth: Strong

Unemployment: Low

Career pathways: With enhanced team-building skills, you’ll be one step further to finding your dream job!

Why Study Team Building Courses?

Learning about teams is helpful for everyone, as they are crucial to our success.

Teams are the building blocks of any successful business. If you want to learn how to build more productive teams, this team-building course is ideal professional development for you.

Building Better Teams is an online course that will provide you with the skills and strategies to build effective, high-performing teams.

In this team building course, you will learn how to develop teams and individuals, lead team effectiveness and promote innovation in team environments. You will also learn to apply critical thinking skills in a team environment.

In this team building course, you will learn about:

• Workplace goals and responsibilities
• Characteristics of high-performing teams
• SMART goals and KPIs
• Conflict management and communication skills
• Leadership and decision making
• Building and combining sentences
• Innovation, team dynamics and diversity
• The critical thinking processes
• Legislative and organisational frameworks

See our course summary at the end for more!

 

Teams you’ll encounter in your career (and life)!

There’s a good chance you’re already part of a team, whether in your workplace, social life or a sporting club. Put simply, a team is a group of people who work together to achieve a common goal. You might come across four types of teams in your career or personal life. 

Functional teams

Functional teams are fixed and usually include people from the same department (sales team) with different roles to perform. A manager is the head of a functional team, and there is typically a top-down management approach. 

Cross-functional teams

Cross-functional teams are a group of people from different departments who work together on a shared goal (marketing and sales teams). These teams work well together through their various input and expertise to achieve the best outcome. All individuals should embrace different personalities and perspectives to navigate a problematic dynamic so everyone is working to their strengths.

Self-managed teams

Self-managed teams operate without a manager. Generally, they are individuals from the same organisation who work together on a shared goal. They operate autonomously and have shared leadership and responsibility for a project. High-performing teams fall into the category of self-managed teams.

Virtual teams

Remote teams work from different physical locations using technology and collaboration tools to achieve shared goals. Virtual teams are much more common and accepted today due to necessity throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s opened up opportunities to work from home and achieve a healthier work-life balance. It’s also been advantageous for organisations looking for unique skills in their employees by increasing the pool of candidates.

20 fun facts about teamwork

Scientists have proven that what we thought we knew about high-performing teams was mostly incorrect! Inc.com reports that the book Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Teams reveals exciting research, showing that:

1. The ideal team size is small, between five and nine people – adding members to the team beyond this amount decreases the success
2. Good chemistry makes teams less effective – diversity ensures there’s enough conflict to generate new ways of thinking
3. Bonding with a team releases oxytocin – a hormone that makes you feel love and trust.
4. The most effective teams don’t have leaders – teams work best when people talk and listen equally.
5. Effective teams need managers – Diverse teams are creative but need a manager to help them communicate
6. Small teams outperform solo acts – even the brightest people perform better as part of a group
7. Conflict is critical – identifying alternative (better) approaches to a problem or goal is met by having a degree of (non-personal) conflict
8. Men are insecure in a minority – men feel dissatisfied and less committed if outnumbered by women. This is not the case for women unaffected by gender ratio!
9. Virtual teams are over-rated – teams work better when in close physical proximity
10. Mixed-age teams outperform youth-only teams – youthful energy doesn’t trump practical business experience, and mixed-age groups are most effective in a team dynamic.

More fascinating facts follow in teamwork statistics!

11. Online collaboration tools scale up productivity by 30%
12. Effective communication generates 4.5 times higher talent retention
13. 81% of employees rate peer collaboration apps positively
14. Teamwork is very important for 37% of employees
15. Recognising quality work and achievements in teams increases profits by 29%
16. 1% want to be part of an organisation that nourishes honest communication
17. 41% of team members who use their strengths have a better quality of life
18. 39% of employees report a lack of collaboration
19. One-third of HR specialists agree that collaboration improves morale
20. Employees of all ages like to use social tools for collaboration 

Learning outcomes

 Outcomes achieved by undertaking team building courses include learning about:

• Teams and problem solving
• Organisational frameworks
• Legislative frameworks
• Key stakeholders
• Solutions for workplace problems
• Critical thinking that helps generate problem solutions
• Team decision making
• Communication/explanation
• Criteria for assessing the suitability of options
• The critical thinking process
• Finalise and review the solution
• Presenting solutions to stakeholders
• Responding to challenges and questions
• Critical thinking learnings (individuals and teams)
• Demonstrate behaviour that supports innovation
• Leaders need to role model
• Challenge and test ideas
• Exploring innovation ideas
• Barriers to reflection
• Responding to feedback
• Stakeholder feedback
• Documenting feedback
• Legal requirements
• incorporating innovation and productivity measures
• Supporting team members to meet expected outcomes
• Leadership
• Promote team cohesion
• Setting goals
• Plans and decision making
• Team input
• Responsible teams
• Creating a team culture where people cooperate
• Modelling behaviours
• Positive leader characteristics
• Positive behaviour
• Organisational vision
• Sustainable business
• Vision/mission statements
• Policies and procedures
• Performance reporting

And more!

If you want to gain a deeper understanding of how to build better, more effective teams, take a look at our team building course Building Better Teams. It’s a professional development course that will improve your teamwork and ability to create high-performing teams for any business!