Team

Learning
Workshop
Course Description

Bringing your team to the next level of

performance requires that members learn how to
learn as a team.
Team learning which is one of the five
disciplines identified by Peter Senge in his book
The Fifth Discipline (1990) is challenging because
the process of learning how to learn collectively is
something people are not very familiar with. We
are more familiar with terms like brainstorming or
problem solving sessions where people come to a
forum looking forward to contributing their own
knowledge and experience or even advocate
their own idea of a solution.

Target Participants
Leaders and team members
Facilitators Profile

In team learning members recognize that

despite the knowledge and experience that they
bring to the table, there is an agreement that the
solution is unknown and that the collective
knowledge of the team and brainpower of each
individual in the team can contribute to cocreating a new solution or a new arrangement.
YOUR TEAM needs this!
They need to be equipped with tools to
create the right environment, use a commonly
understood structure and language to learn how
they can improve together.
Workshop Objectives
By the end of the workshop, the learners would
be able to:
Appreciate the concept of team learning as
a means to improve team performance
Appreciate how surfacing mental models
can help in team learning
Describe the necessary skills in promoting
generative dialogues
Establish norms for team learning

Ed Ebreo is the president and founder of ExeQserve

corporation. His 18 years of experience helps Ed
appreciate organizations and people from various
industries and help them achieve their full potential
through training and other HR-related interventions.
He is also an active member of Toastmasters Club
with a norm of Advanced Communicator Silver.

Team Learning Workshop

Course Content

Time
8:00 to
9:00

Activity
Introduction
Ice Breaker: Lovely Confusion

Process Objectives
Appreciate the framework
of the workshop

Presentation of the workshop framework

9:00 to
10:30

Session 1: Understanding Team Learning

Team learning as part of the five disciplines of
learning organizations
Basic principles of team learning

Describe the concept of

team learning

11:00 to
12:00

Session 2: Mental Models

Strategies for working with mental models
Kantors 4 player modelunderstanding ones
natural style and need to learn in team
conversations.

Appreciate the effect of

mental models in team
learning

1:00 to
3:00

Session 3: Improving Dialogues

Fundamentals of open communication
SLE: Traffic Jam: Encouraging critical
thinking and open communication
Using the four fields of conversation to
achieve generative dialogue
Using Inquiry and Advocacy to achieve
transparent and productive communication
Session 4: Institutionalizing Team Learning
Team Learning and the Creative Process
Team Learning norm building
Closing

Describe the necessary

skills in promoting
generative dialogues

3:15 to
5:00

Establish norms for

team learning