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Team Building

Building a productive and cohesive work environment.

These team building courses will provide you with the tools and strategies you need to build and manage high-performing teams. By focusing on both team building for managers and team building through chemistry, these courses will help you to develop a comprehensive understanding of team dynamics and how to create a productive and positive work environment.

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Micro-credentials are short, concentrated groups of courses that are really flexible. You can take as many as you like, in any order, and because they are asynchronous you can take them at any time it suits you. You will be awarded a badge for each individual course, once you have completed all four courses you will gain your micro-credential.

The cost for each individual course listed below is $60. For more Information email: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course Listing

Course ID: 

Name: Team Building for Managers

Course Outcomes:

  • Discuss the benefits of team work.
  • Describe the importance of intentionally fostering teamwork.
  • Determine strategies your organization can take to build teams.
  • Outline he benefits of games and social activities in building a team.
  • Apply the principles of team building to your own organization.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Team Building Through Chemistry

Course Outcomes:

  • Describe the team development model.
  • Identify team chemistry.
  • Create vision and goals.
  • Appreciate diversity.
  • Manage conflict.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Teamwork and Team Building

Course Outcomes:

  • Describe the concept of a team and its factors for success.
  • Explain the four phases of the Tuckman team development model and define their characteristics.
  • List the three types of teams.
  • Describe actions to take as a leader, and as a follower for each of the four phases (Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing).
  • Discuss the uses, benefits, and disadvantages of various team-building activities.
  • Describe several team-building activities that you can use, and in what settings.
  • Follow strategies for setting and leading team meetings.
  • Detail problem-solving strategies using the Six Thinking Hats model -- and one consensus-building approach to solving team problems.
  • List actions to do, and those to avoid, when encouraging teamwork.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID:

Name: Virtual Team Building and Management

Course Outcomes:

  • Identify the keys to establishing a virtual team.
  • Hold effective meetings and group sessions.
  • Communicate effectively with team members.
  • Use tools to build trust and confidence among employees.
  • Handle poor-performing employees properly.
  • Manage a virtual team during any project.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.
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