Building High Performing Teams Workshop

In today's high-pressure business environment, your talented team is likely operating at just a fraction of its potential. This intensive 2-day workshop provides leaders with the practical tools and proven strategies to build, sustain, and lead high-performing teams that effectively deliver value in today’s constantly changing workplace.It is time to unlock your team's hidden potential.

In this intensive leadership training, you’ll discover how to:

• Understand Team Dynamics: Learn how your natural leadership disposition affects your team and how to assess complex team dynamics
• Apply Proven Models: Implement team development frameworks like Tuckman and Drexler/Sibbet to align teams around common purpose
• Build Trust and Psychological Safety: Create a safe-to-fail environment where innovation thrives
• Foster Transparent Communication: Develop a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation
• Minimize Conflict: Master techniques to improve team communication and reduce friction
• Leverage Team Strengths: Identify and capitalize on individual and collective strengths
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Implement sustainable practices for ongoing team development

Tangible Outcomes from Our Team Performance Training

Practical Leadership Tools You’ll Implement Immediately

After completing this leadership workshop, you’ll walk away with:

• A Customized Team Development Roadmap: A strategic plan tailored to your specific team challenges and opportunities
• Conflict Resolution Framework: A practical system for addressing team conflicts before they damage productivity
• Team Communication Protocol: A structured approach to improve information flow and reduce misunderstandings
• Trust-Building Action Plan: Specific activities to implement immediately to strengthen team relationships
• Performance Measurement System: Tools to track team progress and celebrate meaningful wins
• Leadership Self-Assessment: A personalized analysis of your leadership strengths and growth areas
• Digital Toolkit: Access to templates, checklists, and resources you can implement with your team on day one
• 30/60/90 Day Implementation Plan: A structured timeline to ensure you apply what you’ve learned

Who Should Attend

This workshop is specifically designed for professionals who are ready to overcome these challenges listed below and take their leadership skills to the next level:

• Team conflicts that drain energy and productivity
• Silos and barriers between team members or departments
• Resistance to change when implementing new initiatives
• Communication breakdowns that lead to costly mistakes
• Difficulty motivating team members to deliver their best work
• High turnover of talented team members
• Unclear direction causing team confusion and misalignment

The team building workshop is designed for:

• Senior Leaders & Executives seeking to reinvigorate their leadership teams
• Team Leaders & Managers responsible for team performance and outcomes
• Emerging Leaders preparing for increased team management responsibilities
• Project & Product Managers balancing timeline pressures with team health
• Functional Managers transitioning from individual contribution to team leadership
• Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches looking to enhance team facilitation skills

The Building High Performing Teams workshop isn’t just a collection of theories—it’s a comprehensive toolkit designed to transform how you lead. Through our highly interactive and collaborative approach, you’ll experience a powerful blend of exercises, simulations, role-playing, videos, and dynamic discussions that bring leadership concepts to life.

Day 1: Foundations of High-Performing Teams

Morning: Understanding Team Dynamics

• Leadership Style Assessment: Discover your natural leadership disposition and how it impacts your team
• High-Performance Decoded: Identify the core characteristics that separate exceptional teams from average ones
• Individual & Team Development: Learn the critical relationship between personal growth and team evolution

Afternoon: Building the Framework

• Performance Models in Action: Apply Tuckman and Drexler/Sibbet models to real-world team scenarios
• Situational Leadership Workshop: Master the art of adapting your leadership approach to team needs
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Break down silos and build bridges across departmental boundaries

Day 2: From Theory to Transformation

Morning: Creating Team Alignment

• Goal-Setting Mastery: Establish compelling objectives that motivate and energize your team
• Team Chartering Exercise: Create powerful agreements that prevent conflicts before they arise
• Trust-Building Framework: Implement Patrick Lencioni’s model to overcome the five dysfunctions

Afternoon: Sustaining Excellence

• Conflict Resolution Toolkit: Turn disagreements into opportunities for innovation and growth
• Engagement & Performance Connection: Understand the metrics that matter for sustainable excellence
• Accountability Without Micromanagement: Develop systems that empower rather than constrain

Certification Credits

Upon completion of this class, students can

• Earn the Certified Scrum Developer designation (CSD)
• Earn 14 Project Management Institute Professional Development Units (PDUs)
• Earn 14 Scrum Alliance Scrum Educational Units (SEUs)

What’s Included

Registration includes the following:

• Live training
• Course workbook
• Worksheets and templates
• Full money back guarantee
• Flexible cancelation policy

Money Back Guarantee

Your satisfaction is guaranteed! We are confident that you will be fully satisfied with this workshop. If the workshop is not meeting your expectations, just let us know by mid-day and we will give you a full refund.

Flexible Cancellation Policy

• Cancellation requests received 2 days prior to the start of class receive a full 100% refund. All other cancelation requests receive a credit for a future class.
• Should the organizer cancel the class for any reason, a full 100% refund will be issued.
• All cancellation requests must be made via email to info@kaizenko.com

Questions?

Did we miss anything? Not sure if this workshop is for you? Want us to send you an invoice? Feel free to reach out with any additional questions you might have. We are happy to help out!

About your Trainer

Fadi Stephan is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®), Agile Coach, and technology consultant with more than twenty years of experience at startups, government agencies, and Fortune500 companies across various sectors including financial, hospitality, and homeland. His focus is on building high performing innovative organizations and teams that deliver value early and maximize ROI. Most recently, Fadi was the Software Development Practice lead at Excella Consulting as well as the Digital Services Delivery Solutions lead. Prior to that, he was Director of Product Development at DATABASICS.

Fadi’s background is in technology consulting and product development. He has successfully led digital transformations by combining lean discovery with Agile delivery and a DevOps mindset to deliver impactful digital experiences. At client sites, Fadi trains and coaches teams on agility, leadership, product management, user-centered design, Agile engineering practices and DevSecOps.

Fadi is based in Washington DC and co-organizes DC’s largest Scrum User Group and frequently presents at conferences nationwide. When Fadi is not teaching or coaching, he enjoys cycling as well as downhill skiing.