Success Programs for Working Women in Business: Program 5: Team Building for the Female Business Coach

This program is for working women who are fed up with the male dominance in their business or social organization. This is a program for women who want to break into the "good old boy" network for a greater chance at getting promoted and having a voice in the future of their organization. This program outlines the techniques for forming and sustaining a success work team. A female supervisor who wants to build a successful team can use this program work book. An "informal leader" who wants to start a team can also use this program. In either case, management support is critical, since team meetings should be scheduled during normal work hours. Permission from management to form a team should be requested before actually starting to form a team. Phase I of the work book contains much information that can be used in the preparation of this request for management approval. Background information is contained in Phase I so that you can be sure that starting a team is warranted. Phase II outlines the activities that are needed for getting started, including suggested activities for the first and second team meetings. Phase III consists of those activities that will continue the excitement and enthusiasm. Phase IV outlines techniques to periodically evaluate how the team is doing. You are NOT asked to be less feminine, but merely to use provided techniques to get on a male wavelength to build a positive team atmosphere. Benefits included in the program are: (1) Reviewing the trends and individual needs that are being satisfied by work teams. This will provide a better understanding of the appeal of teams today, (2) Being able to implement the basic techniques to get a work team started on the right foot, (3) Learning how to continue the momentum of initial team successes, (4) Knowing how to periodically conduct team self-evaluations, (5) Understanding techniques for getting teams "unstuck," (6) Having the aid of a support system to assist in the learning process. Step-by-step encouragement is offered at a web site (www.femsuccess.com) for each phase of the program, and interactive communication with the author is offered in using the techniques with specific males, (5) Building confidence in your new abilities, which should reduce work stress and improve the feeling of "wellness," and (6) Learning these techniques with an easy-to-follow 111 page workbook with "do-it-now" steps and worksheets, in the self-paced privacy of home or office.