Rapid Team Deployment (1st Edition), Student Edition

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Rapid Team Deployment (1st Edition)

Course Specifications

Course Number: CCT–075_rev4.0

Course Length: Self-study or classroom training

Course Description

The 50-Minute Manager Series was designed to cover critical business and professional development topics in the shortest time possible. Our easy-to-read, easy-to-understand format can be used for self-study or classroom training, or even office training. With a wealth of hands-on exercises, the 50-Minute books keep you engaged and help you retain critical skills.

Rapid Team Deployment is not like most books. It has a unique “self-study” format that encourages a reader to become personally involved. Designed to be “read with a pencil,” the book offers an abundance of exercises, activities, assessments and cases that invite participation.

This book presents a practical way to launch project teams and turn them into high performance units that achieve quick success. Readers learn about team mechanics, proven principles, and group dynamics through results-oriented tools, how-tos and formulas for turning individuals into an effective team.

Course Objective: The learning objectives for Rapid Team Deployment are listed below. They have been developed to guide you, the reader, to the core issues covered in this book.

The objectives of this book are:

  • To decide when teamwork is appropriate and to ensure it works within the organization’s hierarchy
  • To organize, launch, and lead project teams to achieve their performance objectives
  • To use the right tools to follow the team lifecycle
  • To employ critical success factors of high-performance teams and avoid the worst pitfalls
  • To accelerate team progress to achieve results as quickly as possible

Course Content

Part 1: Defining Team Direction

Team Mechanics
Stages of Team Development
To Team or Not To Team?
Empowerment
Rapid Team Deployment
The Team Environment
Defining Team Requirements
Management Support Roles
Establishing Team Leadership
Team Facilitator

Part 2: Organizing Your Team

Team Recruitment
Team
Briefing the Team
Roadmaps
Task/Implementation Team Roadmap
Problem-Solving Roadmap
Process Improvement Roadmap
New Product/Process Roadmap
Master Planning

Part 3: Team-Building Dynamics

Team Kick-Off
Team Ground Rules
Team Training
Handling Team Differences

Part 4: Accelerating Teamwork

Increasing Your Team’s Pace
Project Management 111
Unsticking Stuck Teams
Adjusting Team Membership

Part 5: Team Wrap-Up

Wrap-Up
The Adjourning Stage
 

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