Empower Your Team to Believe and Achieve
Developing Effective Teams: Using Strengths to Improve Engagement, Performance, and Satisfaction
Contact Kelly Aluise for information on future classes.
WHAT: Developing Effective Teams: Using Strengths to Improve Engagement, Performance, and Satisfaction is a 3 week course designed for managers, team leaders, consultants or anyone working with a team that would like to use character strengths to better understand the groups' strengths, areas for improvement, and overall functioning. Exploring your team's interplay of character strengths can help to create synergy, as well as a positive work environment, which can lead to higher performing teams and greater employee engagement. This training will give you the tools you need to begin utilizing your employees' strengths to improve team connectedness and performance. Tuition is $175 USD. **Free Team Report included in the cost of tuition
Key topic areas covered:
- Team character strengths culture, including character strengths without strong representation
- Aligning team strengths with functions
- Team members' unique character strength contributions
- Strengths of leadership
- Perspectives on strengths conflicts
...and so much more!
After this course participants will be able to:
1.) Apply a strength based team report (The VIA Pro Team Report) to a work team, including rationale for a strengths-based perspective and purpose.
2.) Help employees improve engagement through knowledge of their own strengths and those of their co-workers.
3.) Help a work team discover their strengths and improve their functioning using a strength-based report.
4.) Re-frame workplace problems and solutions from a strengths-based perspective.
5.) List three interventions to boost employee engagement , team culture, and team performance.
WHEN: Live sessions are every Tuesdays from 3:00-4:00 PM EST 3 weeks beginning Nov 27. (Nov 27, Dec 4, and Dec 11). Participants are not required to attend live sessions, recordings are sent to all registrants.
**You will also meet with Skype groups for homework assignments and discussions between each session.
To get the most out of this course participants should plan to listen to all 3 lectures (1 hr per week) and plan to spend at least 1 additional hour/week with their Skype groups.
WHO: This course is presented by both the founder of the VIA Institute, Dr. Neal Mayerson and VIA's Education Director, Dr. Ryan Niemiec.
Read Dr. Neal Mayerson's bio 
Read Dr. Ryan Niemiec's bio