Cross-Functional Teams - Cross-Functional Team Development

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number

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Overview/Description
Cross-Functional Teams: Cross-Functional Team Development offers the student an overview of the information needed to develop communication, achievement, and synergy tools for cross-functional teams. The program details how to develop time lines and how to make consensus decisions. The program also provides information about encountering and overcoming task achievement challenges, as well as evaluating and recognizing team successes.

Target Audience
Team leaders, team members, and managers or supervisors who are interested in learning more about how cross-functional teams are created and how they operate. It is recommended that individuals take the first two courses in the series or have equivalent knowledge.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Cross-Functional Teams - Cross-Functional Team Development

Identify the four steps for communicating outside of meetings

Apply the guidelines for effective team communication

Identify ways planning is important to achieving team goals

Identify the five steps for creating a Gantt chart

Complete a Gantt chart

Select possible challenges a team may encounter

Choose the benefits of an empowered team

Identify three guidelines for assessing task achievement problems

Identify two methods for evaluating a cross-functional team

Identify the guidelines for establishing a recognition system

Identify ways recognition benefits a cross-functional team

Course Number:
en_US_42233_ng