Building Effective Teams

Your team reflects your effectiveness as a leader. Go beyond managing and learn how to truly transform your team's performance in this dynamic workshop designed for new and mid-level managers. Discover the essential elements of highly effective teams and gain practical strategies to foster trust, navigate conflict, secure commitment, drive accountability and achieve exceptional results. Through self-assessments and interactive exercises, you'll identify your leadership strengths and growth areas, developing a personalized action plan to cultivate a more engaged, productive and cohesive team.

How you'll learn

This course is synchronous with in-class large — and small — group discussion and interaction to process and apply the learning. You will grow by self-assessing your own team's strengths and by creating a plan for team development going forward.

Learning objectives

• Understand the elements of an effective team
• Assess your team's strengths and opportunity areas
• Identify your own opportunities to lead teams more effectively
• Gain practical skills for building an effective team in-person and virtually
• Create a plan to strengthen your own team's performance

Division of Continuing Studies is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.

By participating in this class you will earn:

Instructional Hours	6
University of Wisconsin Continuing Education Units	.6
Society for Human Resource Management Professional Development Credits	6

Explanation of Continuing Education Hours