Team and Employee Development
- Adapting to a Changing Workplace
- Applications of Industrial Training
- Basic Accounting for Non–Accountants
- Defining Team Roles and Responsibilities
- Developing Functional Roles in a Group
- Developing a Winning Team
- Effective Employees
- Effective Team Meetings
- Employee Retention
- Fact–Based Decision Making
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Group Think — The Abilene Paradox
- Industrial Math
- Industrial Training Fundamentals
- Inventories (PSI)
- Maintaining Motivated Employees
- Managing Teams
- Math and Metrics
- Meetings Review
- Peer Appraisal
- Preparing to Deliver Industrial Training
- Resolving Team Conflicts
- Team Applications
- Team Building
- Team Concepts
- Team Consensus Building
- Team Decision Making
- Team Dynamics
- Team Foundation
- Team Goals and Objectives
- Team Leadership
- Teamwork and Communication
- Work Ethic — Performing Beyond Mediocrity
Group Think — The Abilene Paradox
Session Format:
One 4 Hour Session
Introduction
This fast–paced workshop will help managers, supervisors, and staff find positive ways to come to effective agreement between individuals and groups and avoid the trap of moving in directions that are counter–productive to the group’s overall purpose.
Objectives
The participant will learn to: 1) recognize the paradox of mismanaged agreement and understand how it contributes to poor group decisions, 2) explore the personal and psychological dynamics that affect each person’s involvement in group discussions and agreement, and 3) initiate measures to help groups avoid making counter–productive decisions.
Content Outline
- Introduction
- What is mismanaged agreement
- How to "skip the trip" and address reality
- Positive or constructive confrontation in a group setting
- Strategies that can be used to prevent mismanaged agreement
Who Should Attend
This seminar is intended for managers, supervisors, and line staff who, as part of their jobs, must meet in groups to make decisions.
