Course/Product Description Title: Building And Leading High-Performance Teams Date / Time: Recorded Format: Audio Conference Description: Building and leading a high-performance team is one of the most challenging skills for any leader, at any organizational level. This audio conference will help both new and experienced managers develop the critical skills needed to lead their teams to peak performance. This comprehensive session focuses on the nuts-and-bolts "how-to's" of leading and getting your team to eagerly reach levels of productivity and achievement they (and you) never thought were possible. This practical, hands-on program will also help you create a team environment in which: Winning as a team trumps functional self-interest. Every team member accepts accountability for business results—and holds every other equally accountable. Decision-making power is distributed. Conflict is resolved openly and quickly. Interpersonal relationships are authentic: based on straight talk and honest feedback. The performance bar is continually being raised. During this information-packed session, you will be introduced to: The Team Development Wheel: a four-stage cycle through which teams move on the road to high performance What are the four stages? What are the payoffs and costs of each stage? How can you determine what stage your team is currently in? What eight attributes are shared by all high-performance teams? How can you begin moving your team toward Stage 4: high performance? The concept of “Team Alignment”: Why does a team need to be aligned? What are the five key areas in which it needs to be aligned? How do you go about aligning a team for high performance? Featured Faculty: Howard M. Guttman, Principal, Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. (GDS) Howard M. Guttman is principal of Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. (GDS), a Mount Arlington, NJ-based management consulting firm founded in 1989 and specializing in building high-performance teams, executive coaching, strategic and organizational alignment, and project implementation. GDS has been ranked as a top Leadership Development consulting firm by Leadership Excellence magazine, which also named Mr. Guttman to its list of “Excellence 100 Top Thought Leaders.” Among GDS’s U.S. and international corporate clients are Calvin Klein; Colgate-Palmolive; John Hancock; Johnson & Johnson; Kinetic Concepts Inc. (KCI); L’Oréal USA; Mars, Inc.; Novartis; Pfizer; and Walmart. Mr. Guttman’s most recent book is Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance (John Wiley),, named one of the Top Business Books of 2008 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries. He is also the author of When Goliaths Clash: Managing Executive Conflict to Build a More Dynamic Organization. His third book, Coach Yourself to Win: 7 Steps to Breakthrough Performance on the Job and in Your Life, will be published by McGraw-Hill in September 2010. Mr. Guttman is quoted frequently in the business press and in broad-interest magazines and newspapers such as TIME magazine, The Washington Post, U.S. News and World Report, U.S.A. Today magazine, and Investors Business Daily. He is also a frequent contributor to professional journals such as Harvard Management Update, Human Resource Executive, Chief Executive, and Leader to Leader. Cannot Attend The Live Presentation? This presentation is also available on CD after the initial broadcast. About Webcasts / Audio Conferences / Podcasts: Webcasts, audio conferences, and podcasts are presentations that you attend via the Internet, phone, or mobile device at a specified date and time for "live" versions, or at your convenience for "recorded" and "On-Demand" versions. The live versions are interactive, meaning that participants can ask questions in real time, plus are a very cost-effective form a training because 1) you receive fast, convenient learning without any out-of-office time; 2) you can invite as many colleagues as you'd like to listen in on a single phone line; 3) you incur no travel expenses; and 4) you and your colleagues are back at work immediately after the session ends! And though with recorded versions you do lose the ability to ask questions, you gain the ability to hear the presentation numerous times and to share it with others in your office. Handout materials and the phone number for live presentations are made available to you prior to the event via email from the presenter and from the "MyAccount" link on the menu bar. Copies of the presentations are included with recorded versions. 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Keywords For This Course:
team leadership, performance, productivity