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Leadership Skills and Team Development for Technical Professionals

Join the technical professionals who are enhancing their team-building and leadership skills with AMA

Leaders of technical professionals face a substantial challenge: to achieve successful task completion through positive work relationships. Leadership team development is your ticket to getting things done. In this highly interactive seminar, you will learn how to build and lead a team...evaluate your team's performance...and develop an action plan for continued leadership success.  

Seminar Number: 02569

5
(254 reviews)
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  • Live Online
  • At Your Company Location

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Who Should Attend

IT and technical professionals, including team leaders, managers, directors and others who want to enhance their team-building and leadership skills.

  •   In-Person2 Day(s)
    1.2 CEU, 12 CLP, 12 PDU, 18 PMU
  •   Live Online2 Day(s)
    1.2 CEU, 12 CLP, 12 PDU, 18 PMU
 
 

Leaders of technical professionals face a substantial challenge: to achieve successful task completion through positive work relationships. Leadership team development is your ticket to getting things done. In this highly interactive seminar, you will learn how to build and lead a team...evaluate your team's performance...and develop an action plan for continued leadership success.

 

  • Hands-on practice building and leading a team
  • Maintain team performance during times of change
  • Manage and resolve team conflict
  • Develop the skills to manage the day-to-day challenges of team leadership
  • Technical vs. nontechnical professionals: differences that impact the leader’s role
  • Various types of teams: functional, cross-functional, self-managed and self-directed—how to vary your leadership style to meet the needs of the team
  • Key steps to building high-performance teams
  • Evaluating individual and team performance
  • Using discipline, coaching, communication, problem-solving and authority to better manage your people

Special Feature

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner - producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

Learning Objectives

  • Lead Teams of Technical Professionals
  • Balance the Roles of Leading, Managing, and Doing
  • Deploy the Appropriate Type of Team for Each Specific Situation That Warrants a Team
  • Use the Team Meeting Success Tool to Improve Team Performance
  • Train the Team Members on Effective Teamwork
  • Analyze Changes in Team Dynamics and Take Effective Action
  • Use Conflict Constructively
  • Coach and Provide Feedback to Individuals and the Team
  • Demonstrate Effective Motivation, Communication, Coaching, and Leadership Without Authority
  • Evaluate Individual and Team Performance
  • Develop a Plan, Monitor and Measure Performance
  • Move a Team Toward High Performance
  • Develop a Plan to Improve Your Individual Leadership Skills

Forming

  • Identify the Unique Characteristics of Technical Professionals
  • Identify How Technical Professional Are Like Most Other Professionals
  • Use Your Understanding of Technical Professionals to Lead Teams
  • Differentiate Among Doing, Managing, and Leading
  • Plan Your Time Appropriately
  • Rise to Some of the Challenges of the New Team Leader
  • Deploy the Appropriate Type of Team for Each Specific Situation That Warrants a Team
  • Assign Teams Appropriate Activities
  • Use the Team Meeting Success Tool to Improve Team Performance
  • Execute the Role of Team Leader and Train Team Members
  • Establish the Basic Necessities of Team Building
  • Use Your Leadership Style Effectively
  • Analyze Changes in Team Dynamics
  • Take Effective Action with Changing Team Dynamics

Storming

  • Use Conflict Constructively
  • Prevent or Minimize Destructive Conflict

Norming

  • Manage the Team Day to Day, Applying Planning, Discipline, Problem Solving, and Delegating Responsibility
  • Coach and Provide Feedback to Individuals and the Team
  • Lead the Team Using Motivation, Communication, and Leadership Without Authority
  • Evaluate Individual Performance Looking Forward, Not Backward
  • Evaluate Team Performance Looking Forward, Not Backward
  • Plan for Success, Strategically and Tactically
  • Monitor and Measure Performance
  • Take Responsibility and Improve Performance
  • Plan and Improve Your Individual Leadership Skills

Performing

  • Move a Team Toward High Performance
  • Articulate What You Have Learned
  • Decide Whether Your Concerns Have Been Addressed

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View a Sample of Our Reviews

5

254 reviews

 
I learned a lot in this class that I wish I knew before becoming a manager. Understanding workstyles, communicating, coaching, flexing, etc, will definitely help me become a better leader.
5
Maryanne P.
 
Business Analyst Manager
 
Industry: Insurance
This class was a great mixture of good content, high level of class participation and an excellent instructor. It made for an outstanding class.
5
TIMOTHY Q.
 
NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR
 
Industry: Law Firms & Legal Services
Great experience, learned a lot about myself, management and team building concepts and how to put them into play.
5
BILL K.
 
MANAGER
 
Industry: Business Services
The communication and feedback, the small class size, it all worked so beautifully to create an very enriching and educational experience. I also liked this style better than a two day in-person seminars because it gave me time to enact a few things and then regroup with the class.
5
SARAH S.
 
SR CLINICAL SYSTEMS ANALYST
 
Industry: Healthcare Services
Course was filled with so much great information; coaching and guiding through the process and lessons learned very beneficial.
5
DAVID G.
 
IT SYSTEM ENGINEER MANAGER
 
Industry: Finance

This course is valid for PMUs.
7 Professional Effectiveness [PE]
11 Relationship Management [RM]
5 Professional Effectiveness [PE]
7 Relationship Management [RM]

American Management Association is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.

AMA has been reviewed and approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Talent Triangle PDUs

Classroom [L] 14 [S&B] 4 / Live Online [L] 10 [S&B] 2

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In-Person Schedule

3 Sessions Available

Live Online Schedule

4 Sessions Available

  • $2,795.00 Non Members
  • $2,495.00 AMA Members
  • $2,478.00 GSA
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  2026-05-04 2026-05-05 May 4, 2026 - May 5, 2026 2 Days DC Arlington/Washington 22202-4807 Arlington/Washington Register Now

I learned a lot in this class that I wish I knew before becoming a manager. Understanding workstyles, communicating, coaching, flexing, etc, will definitely help me become a better leader.
5
Maryanne P.
 
Business Analyst Manager
 
Industry: Insurance
This class was a great mixture of good content, high level of class participation and an excellent instructor. It made for an outstanding class.
5
TIMOTHY Q.
 
NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR
 
Industry: Law Firms & Legal Services
Great experience, learned a lot about myself, management and team building concepts and how to put them into play.
5
BILL K.
 
MANAGER
 
Industry: Business Services
The communication and feedback, the small class size, it all worked so beautifully to create an very enriching and educational experience. I also liked this style better than a two day in-person seminars because it gave me time to enact a few things and then regroup with the class.
5
SARAH S.
 
SR CLINICAL SYSTEMS ANALYST
 
Industry: Healthcare Services
Course was filled with so much great information; coaching and guiding through the process and lessons learned very beneficial.
5
DAVID G.
 
IT SYSTEM ENGINEER MANAGER
 
Industry: Finance
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