Join team-building guru Gary Topchik and you'll discover the secrets for building, managing, and leading dynamic work teams that achieve more!

As a first-time manager, you're under a lot of pressure to succeed. Not only do you have new job responsibilities, you're also responsible for an entire team of people and their success. If you’re wondering how you'll bring together a diverse group of employees with different agendas, goals, personalities, and work habits into a cohesive team, you are not alone! In this can't-miss training, legendary author Gary Topchik reveals proven and practical team-building strategies guaranteed to make your teambuilding efforts easier and more successful!

Based on his critically acclaimed book, The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building, this training answers your toughest questions on building successful teams. You'll examine the four different team models and find out which one is best for you. You'll learn about what you need to make a great team and what you can do as a leader to ensure success. Gary even reveals secrets for dealing with difficult learners, resolving team conflict, and handling tough team situations.

Gary will teach you his highly effective team-building methods that have worked for managers, supervisors, and team leaders around the globe! His keen insight into what makes successful teams click is like a tall glass of water for managers thirsty for team-building solutions.

Whether you're a first-time manager, or even a veteran manager who has inherited a dysfunctional squad from another manager, you are guaranteed to learn how to build better teams more quickly and easily than you ever thought possible. Take the fear, frustration, and stress out of this part of your job forever!

What You'll Learn:

• 9 factors that will make a team GREAT!
• How to determine the best team model for your group: An overview of the 4 different team models
• 3 tough situations that team leaders need to be aware of, and how to handle them
• The most important features of a great team leader
• The 10 steps to building a high-performing team … and why you should do them at the start
• How to create a team spirit and hold them accountable
• The 4 most difficult types of teams and how to deal with them successfully
• 5 ways that team leaders can resolve conflicts within their team or with individual team members ... how and when to use each of them
• The winning formula for building a successful team

Your Trainer: Gary Topchik

We could not be more excited to bring you the wisdom and insight of Gary Topchik through this incredibly unique training. As CEO, president, and managing partner of one of Southern California's most cutting-edge consulting firms, SilverStar Enterprises, Gary is one of the most renowned and respected experts in management development, organizational change, and team-building.

Gary's clients include Shell Oil, Disney, AT&T, Dow Jones, Nextel, Telecordia, SAIC, Oracle, Southern Edison, Batelco, Aramco, Fannie Mae, and numerous governmental agencies and not-for-profits. But what makes Gary such a master at providing insight into the problems that plague most work teams – other than his MBA in Organizational Behavior from Cornell University, of course? It's the way Gary explains human behavior in the simplest terms possible and ties it into the real world of management. He’s so good at it, in fact, that he is currently lecturing in the business and management department at UCLA.

Gary's writing has been published in many leading business journals and he is the author of four best-selling books: Managing Workplace Negativity; Equity Checking; The Accidental Manager; and the fifth edition of The First-Time Manager. Critics and devotees of Gary's teachings have been eagerly anticipating his latest work, The First-Time Manager’s Guide to Team Building, scheduled to be released in June 2007. Of course, this is the book that is the impetus for this exciting training event!