The eLearning Center for Gatlin Education Services

Strong, cohesive teams are vital corporate assets and instrumental in achieving a variety of business goals. Our leading teams programs will teach you how to create, motivate and manage various types of teams to boost productivity and achieve positive results.

Creating Successful Teams (Interview)
Time: 12.0 minute(s)
Summary:
Effective teams embrace the philosophy of "None of us is as smart as all of us." Watch as Dr. Ken Blanchard, chairman and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, provides some essential advice of how a group of individuals can be turned into a winning team.

Developing Successful Teams
Time: 19.0 minute(s)
Summary:
Welcome to Developing Successful Teams. Organizations today must constantly focus on transforming groups of individuals into high performance teams. Often, the road to a successful team is filled with difficult obstacles that either slow or weaken their development. During this program, you''ll learn to identify the characteristics of a highly effective team, and be able to identify the four predictable stages of team development: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. You will also learn the appropriate leadership behaviors needed for each of these stages.
Outline:
* Introduction
* Why Develop Successful Teams?
* The Rocky Road to Developing a Successful Team
* Does Your Team Have What It Takes?
* Stages of Team Development
* Team Leadership Behaviors
* Summary

Successful Geo-Dispersed Teams (Interview)
Time: 5.0 minute(s)
Summary:
An increasingly pervasive workplace reality is the amount of work that must be accomplished by geographically dispersed team members. Watch as Debra Dinnocenzo, president of ALLearnatives, discusses how remote teams must learn new ways to communicate, exchange information and use technology to help them accomplish their objectives.

Team Learning (Interview)
Time: 8.0 minute(s)
Summary:
For teams to be successful, they need to constantly be learning how to move faster and maintain flexibility in order to achieve positive results. Bill Underwood, cofounder of Catalyst Consulting Team, tells us how he has helped teams learn and grow to become effective teams.

The Influence Edge and Your Team
Time: 17.0 minute(s)
Summary:
Much of our work today depends on the ability to influence groups of people while on projects or in team meetings. During this program, you'll learn strategies and tips for influencing teams. In addition, you'll learn the four communication styles and how to influence according to a person's style. You'll also learn how to interact with people according to their representational system.
Outline:
* Introduction
* Influencing Teams
* Plan Your Strategy
* Do's and Don'ts
* Communication Styles
* Representational Systems
* Summary

Virtual Teams
Time: 19.0 minute(s)
Summary:
Doing business today requires leaders to connect people across time, distance and cultures. This program will help enable you to lead a successful virtual team. In addition, you'll learn what it takes to start a virtual team, how to build trust among team members and how to monitor virtual teamwork.
Outline:
* Introduction
* Virtual Teams
* Leading Virtual Teams
* Getting Started
* Kickoff Meeting
* Building Trust
* Monitoring Team Performance
* Summary

Working Wounded: Teams at Work
Time: 3.0 minute(s)
Summary:
Teams can be effective when they are provided clear goals with measurable results. Watch as Bob Rosner, founder and syndicated columnist of Working Wounded, discusses whether or not a project really requires the need for a team.