Team Leadership
Team leadership training to power high-performance teams
Teamwork may make the dream work, but it takes more for a team to succeed than grouping people together in an org chart. Often, teams don’t accomplish their goals due to a lack of shared purpose, unclear goals and roles, a lack of mutual accountability, and ineffective leadership. Our Team Leadership training course teaches managers to diagnose their team's development and apply the right leadership style to build and sustain high-performance teams.
By teaching managers these leadership skills, you can significantly improve your teams' ability to execute on projects, grow the business, and develop agility that allows them to adapt to whatever arises.
Invest in team leader training and tap into every team’s potential
We know you want your teams to work together across your organization effectively. Our leadership and team manager training course can help your organization build high-performance teams.
Team Leadership is a skills-based course designed to give your team leaders the process, tools, and leadership skills they need to empower team members, improve productivity, and increase the success of your team initiatives.
Based on years of research that analyzes the nature of great teams, Blanchard’s team leader training course teaches your managers the predictable stages of team development and the team leadership styles needed to move them forward quickly and successfully.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is team leadership training?
Team leadership training equips managers with the skills to guide, motivate, and align their teams toward shared goals. It emphasizes communication, collaboration, and adaptability—key elements for leading high-performance teams.
How does team leadership improve business results?
Strong team leadership enhances coordination, trust, and accountability. When leaders understand team dynamics and apply the right strategies, productivity and morale increase, directly impacting organizational success.
What topics are covered in a Team Leadership course?
Topics include goal setting, role clarity, conflict resolution, performance coaching, and building team culture. Leaders also learn how to empower individuals while maintaining overall alignment and focus.
Why is team leadership important for new managers?
New managers often move from individual contributor to leader without formal guidance. Team leadership training provides the frameworks and communication tools they need to manage others confidently and effectively.
How can organizations benefit from team leadership development?
Organizations benefit from higher collaboration, faster problem-solving, and more engaged employees. Investing in leadership development builds a foundation for long-term performance and innovation.
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Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
We can deliver Team Leadership in-person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or delivered in a self-directed online or moderated online version, so your leaders can learn how to optimize their team’s performance wherever they are and whenever they have time.
In Person
Virtual
Online
The Team Leadership course can be delivered as in-person one-day experience designs. The course features engaging materials, videos, and activities that teach participants Team Performance Mindset, Diagnosing Team Needs, and Team Leadership Behaviors.
Prework: LAUNCH — Engaging prework assignments, including an assessment, that explain key Team Leadership concepts
Day 1 LEARN — Learn the Team Leadership Mindset and Skillset
Day 1 PRACTICE — Practice mindset and skillset through interactive assignments
Day 1 Apply — Reintroduces and summarizes the high-performance team road map. Introduces the action plan
Post Work: APPLY — Revisit the learning portal and access tools, including the Teams Assessment multi-rater Report, Teams Assessment Interpretation Guide Team, and Charter Worksheets.
1 Day Instructor-led Course
The Team Leadership virtual course is presented in three two-hour sessions. The virtual sessions offer learners an engaging experience that includes instruction, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills.
- Virtual Session 1 prepares you to learn the Team Leadership Mindset and Skillset
- Virtual Sessions 2 and 3 teach the skills and mindset to diagnose their team’s stage of development and act in a way that contributes to its performance.
- Participants receive a set of online tools to aid in mastering the content and using it with others
Let us know if you'll need Continuing Education Units prior to starting your course!
- 6 SHRM PDCs
- 6 NASBA CPEs
- 6 ATD Credit Hours
Virtual Instructor-led Courses
We have two online solutions—Team Leadership Online Overview and Teaming and Collaboration Online Overview — that cover the course’s core content and most important ideas for different audiences.
Team Leadership Online Overview
Online Overview is for team leaders and focuses on leadership behaviors. This 35-minute online overview contains one- to five-minute micro-learning videos, interactions, and tools. This content is ideal for learners who need browsable tips and bits of knowledge for just-in-time help for moments of need.
Teaming and Collaboration Online Overview
Teaming and Collaboration Online Overview is for the team members, and focuses on team interactions. Experienced as a 35-minute online overview with one- to five-minute micro-learning videos, interactions, and tools. These flexible assets can be used to refresh or reinforce the content.
Digital Assets
Set of micro-activities, including videos, interactions, and worksheets, that learners can access in moments of need to support ongoing learning, performance support, reinforcement, and custom learning journeys.
Team leadership is critical, so why is it often left to chance?
71 %
of senior managers said meetings are unproductive and inefficient.
New managers hold
29 %
more meetings than their experienced peers.
* Harvard Business Review, Stop the Meeting Madness ** Harvard Business Review, Dear Manager, You’re Holding Too Many Meetings
Drive Team Outcomes With Team Leadership Training
High-performance teams allow your organization to bring together its members’ multiple skills, strengths, and experiences to solve complex organizational problems, execute more quickly, make better decisions, enhance creativity, and produce consistently superior results. Blanchard's team leadership and team building training course will teach team managers the skills they need to improve their teams’ collaboration, innovation, and effectiveness.
Improve Collaboration
High-performance teams bring together complementary skills, strengths, and experience that exceed the abilities of any single member.
Achieve Superior Results
Effective teams are empowered and accountable—they consistently execute strategy, meet goals, and deliver superior results.
Increase Innovation
Working together, team members share their ideas, talent, and viewpoints to solve problems creatively and develop innovative solutions.
Make High-Performance the Norm
Team members who have been part of a cohesive, winning team spread the skills and benefits of high performance across your organization.
Create A Culture Of Courageous Inclusion
It takes more than just awareness building and familiarizing people with DEI terminology to enable lasting culture change. Give your people the confidence and skills they need to create an inclusive, welcoming work environment that encourages people to bring their whole selves to work.
Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
We can deliver Conversational Capacity in-person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or delivered in a self-directed online or moderated online version, so your managers can learn the methodology wherever they are and whenever they have time.
In Person
Virtual
Online
The in-person course is one full day. With hundreds of facilitators worldwide, we can deliver sessions for your organization or equip you to run them yourself. Public courses are also available.
Prework: LAUNCH — Welcome the participants and set the context for individuals and teams to reach new levels of performance through various activities to engage in open, balanced, and nondefensive conversations.
Session 1: LEARN — Defines awareness as the ability to recognize the two powerful emotional reactions and how they are essential for staying in the sweet spot.
Session 2: PRACTICE — Defines the Conversational Capacity Skillset, which includes specific behaviors people can use to balance candor and curiosity.
Session 3: APPLY — Introduces the Curiosity Skills, which highlights the advantage of having the humility to seek out information that might be missing and to understand others’ points of view.
1 Day Instructor-led Course
The Conversational Capacity virtual course includes prework assignments completed before the first course, with three two-hour live virtual sessions spread out over time. The virtual sessions offer learners an engaging experience that includes instruction, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills.
- In the virtual sessions, participants develop new skills by completing activities based on personal work challenges
- Participants receive a set of online tools to aid in mastering the content and using it with others
Virtual Instructor-led Courses
Let us know if you'll need Continuing Education Units prior to starting your course!
- 6 SHRM PDCs
- 6 NASBA CPEs
- 6 ATD Credit Hours
Collaborative Online Course
Conversational Capacity can be delivered online in a collaborative, moderated class over five weeks, with assignments and cohort meetings once a week during one-hour live virtual inspire session. It is self-directed learning blended with discussions, exercises, reflection, and offline assignments. Participants gain skills for keeping conversations open, balanced, and productive, ways to maintain a learning-focused mindset, methods for overcoming obstacles to Conversational Capacity.
Online Overview
This 35-minute online overview teaches the core concepts of Conversational Capacity through micro-learning activities. Ideal for learners who need an overview of the content or a refresher, this course design can be used along with virtual and in-person sessions, or as part of a learning journey, to create more flexible learning experiences. Optional Reflect and Share sessions are also available.
Digital Assets
Set of nine micro-activities ranging from one to five minutes that learners can use during moments of need. The playlist includes videos, activities, and worksheets on topics such as influencing up, tackling touchy topics, why arguing backfires, and leaning into difference.
Communication can be a business driver or a derailer
80 %
the U.S. workforce reports feeling stressed because of ineffective company communication. 63% have wanted to quit because ineffective communication interfered with their ability to do their job.*
Up to 41 %
Companies with better relationships and communication experience 20% higher productivity, 21% higher profitability, and 41% lower absenteeism.**
*Dynamic Signal, 2019 Dynamic Signal Study. | **Wellness Council of America,The ROI on Better Workplace Conversations.
Good Listeners And Communicators Unlock Your Workplace’s Potential
Conversational Capacity is the foundation for a positive and productive workplace. It redirects all the energy wasted in unproductive exchanges into channels that benefit people and the enterprise.
Engage Employees
When people have honest and meaningful conversations, morale rises and the workplace buzzes with enthusiasm.
Spur Innovation
People share ideas. Colleagues contribute. A good idea evolves into a great one. That’s how innovation happens.
Improve Productivity
The gap between what people say and what others hear closes. Miscommunication and misunderstandings evaporate, and real work gets done.
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to learn how we can help your managers learn the skills they need to lead high-performance teams.
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to learn how we can help your leaders learn the skills they need to manage and develop their people effectively. Whether you prefer to use well-established, standard training designs or to tailor your learning experiences for your employees, we can help you succeed.
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