Building Smart Teams Program

Building Smart Teams

Essential Skills for Inspired Collaboration

(formerly Collaborating for Group Ingenuity)

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Teams are essential in many organizations - they bring together people with the right skills, experiences and authority to work on common challenges. But not all teams are effective. In this challenging and rewarding seminar program, you'll learn the critical process skills that differentiate effective from ineffective teams.

Your opportunity
During this four-day program you'll learn to:

  • assess your team's strengths and improvement areas
  • advise senior management on how to create a supportive climate
  • follow our change-management process for implementing teams
  • create effective team-management practices
  • build communications patience to enhance problem solving and team IQ
  • develop a conflict-handling protocol
  • use our exercises to stimulate action learning in your organization

Who benefits?
Team leaders, facilitators and coaches who want to learn a proven method for implementing and supporting teams that excel will benefit the most from this seminar.

Organizational benefit

By effectively transferring the learnings from this program, the sponsoring organization will see the following positive results:

  • Create groups of varying sizes that are enabled and aligned to the organization’s mission and strategy
  • Build synergies and release latent energy in the organization
  • Realize real results with staying power
  • Inculcate shared ownership of complex challenges

 

Program leaders and trainers
Brenda Barker (Chair), Carol Beatty and Scott Kress.

For information on the Building Smart Teams program in TORONTO, go here

For information on the Building Smart Teams program in HALIFAX, go here

Dates and Fees
Fall 2008: September 22 - 25 - $3,950.00 - Register

Includes registration, tuition, lunches, some dinners and all instructional materials.
If you register and pay two months prior to the opening date of the program, you will receive a $300 discount.
Sessions begin on the Monday at 8:30 a.m. and end on the Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

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Testimonials
Read what previous participants say about the Building Smart Teams program.

Facilities

Donald Gordon Conference Centre is Queen's internationally renowned executive development facility. The Centre is located on 421 Union Street, between Queen’s main and west campuses. For more information on the facility, please go to: http://www.dgc.queensu.ca/. Please book your accommodations at Donald Gordon Centre directly with Claire Grazette, DGC’s Conference Planner, at 613 533 2221 ext. 3601 or by email at grazette@post.queensu.ca. <See Map for Directions...>




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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

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DISPUTE RESOLUTION SKILLS

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NEGOTIATION SKILLS

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LABOUR ARBITRATION SKILLS

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CHANGE MANAGEMENT

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BUILDING SMART TEAMS

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OD FOUNDATIONS

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BUSINESS STRATEGY

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ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

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PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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LEADERSHIP CAPACITY

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ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

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CONSULTING
SKILLS PRACTICUM

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CUSTOM PROGRAMS