Making Effective Team Decisions

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives

Overview/Description
 One of the prime strengths of an organization is being able to bring together diverse personalities and various talents into a single unit or team and achieve positive, productive results. The SkillSoft series on "9 Traits of Highly Successful Work Teams" presents simple, basic and time-tested principles for working with one another. Presented by Loren Ankarlo, the series spans several teamwork related aspects like how a team can share a common purpose, how roles and procedures should be clarified within a team and how effective meetings should be conducted. Course 5 of the nine-course series on successful work teams focuses on how teams can avoid the potential gridlock of group discussions and make decisions through consensus and agreement. In this course, Loren Ankarlo introduces proven techniques for making effective decisions by teams. One of the techniques that is illustrated is the use of a weighted decision making model to help teams make effective decisions.

Target Audience
 Team Leaders, Project Managers, Supervisors, Managers and Team members with less than three years experience in a team role.

Expected Duration
1.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Staying within Team Boundaries

  • recognize why a successful work team stays within its defined boundaries.
  • identify current, future, management, and outer team boundaries.

    • Building Consensus

  • recognize the value of consensus building in making effective team decisions.
  • identify the decision that has been reached by consensus.
  • apply the steps of the Weighted Decision Making Model for effective decision-making.

    • Course Number: TEAM0105