Event Description

Learn how to inspire, guide, and elevate your team in this powerful one-day leadership workshop designed for new, emerging, and experienced leaders. Leading Effective Teams provides practical strategies and hands-on tools to help you build high-performing teams, enhance your leadership confidence, and create a motivated, collaborative workplace.

Whether you are stepping into leadership for the first time or looking to sharpen your existing leadership capabilities, this workshop will help you turn leadership theory into real, everyday action. You will learn how to build trust, communicate with clarity, guide team members through challenges, coach for performance, and create a positive team culture.

This program is highly interactive, incorporating real-world examples, case studies, coaching practice, and group activities to ensure every participant walks away with practical skills they can apply immediately.

Who Should Attend?

Team Leaders
Supervisors
Managers
Project Leads
Aspiring or Newly Promoted Leaders
Anyone responsible for guiding or developing a team

What You Will Learn

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

Identify the key qualities of successful leaders
Distinguish between leadership and management roles
Turn organizational vision into meaningful team goals
Understand individual motivators and drive team engagement
Respond effectively to challenging behaviors
Strengthen team collaboration and trust
Use simple but powerful coaching techniques for performance improvement
Lead with confidence, empathy, and clarity

Key Topics Covered

Essential leadership traits & self-assessment
Inspiring teams through vision and purpose
Setting clear expectations & goal alignment
Motivating different personality types
Managing difficult team dynamics
Adaptive leadership styles
Practical coaching methods for busy leaders
Boosting performance through feedback and support

Full-Day Agenda (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Welcome, Introductions & Workshop Overview

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM
Module 1: Foundations of Effective Leadership
– Understanding leadership roles
– Key qualities of high-impact leaders

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Module 2: Leader vs. Manager
– What distinguishes leadership from management
– Activity: Self-assessment and leadership mapping

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM
Tea/Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Module 3: Creating and Communicating Vision
– Bringing organizational vision to life
– Translating vision into purpose for your team

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Module 4: Setting Team Goals
– Aligning goals with business needs
– Practical goal-setting tools and action planning

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch Break

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Module 5: Motivation & Engagement
– Understanding team motivators
– Creating an environment that drives commitment

2:45 PM – 3:30 PM
Module 6: Managing Difficult Team Members
– Identifying behavior patterns
– Smart strategies for handling conflict & resistance

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Tea/Coffee Break

3:45 PM – 4:30 PM
Module 7: Coaching for Performance
– Simple coaching framework
– Key coaching skills every leader needs

4:30 PM – 4:50 PM
Module 8: Quick Coaching Techniques
– Instant coaching methods for busy workdays

4:50 PM – 5:00 PM
Wrap-Up, Questions & Certificate Information

Leading Effective Teams 1 Day Workshop |Bridgeport, CT