Teams on Track: Facilitation Skills for High-Performing Teams

This half-day or daylong workshop is for anyone who assumes a leadership position in interdisciplinary or departmental teams. Participants will learn specific methods for keeping teams on track and will be able to practice their skills during the workshop.

Overview of Workshop Activities

What Makes an Effective Team?

• Characteristics of high-performing teams
• Team goals and expectations

Productive Teamwork

• Responsibilities of leaders and participants
• Action planning to implement decisions
• Types of team decisions
• Advantages and disadvantages of different decision-making strategies

Facilitation and Participation Skills

• Facilitating discussions
• Techniques for special kinds of discussions and keeping the meetings energized
• Giving and receiving feedback

Managing conflict

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