Building & Managing High-Performing Teams

Name: Building & Managing High-Performing Teams
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Because as a leader you're only as successful as your team

Created byBrenda van Camp

Last updated 4/2017

English

What you'll learn

You will gain an in-depth understanding of the 7 conditions that are required to build a high-performing team
You will develop an actionable plan to turbo-charge your team's performance based on your detailed review of your team's performance against the 7 conditions for building and sustaining a successful team
You will be able to improve your team's collaboration by helping your team members better bridge & leverage cultural and personality differences

Course content

5 sections • 19 lectures • 38m total length

Introduction1:49

Condition 1: Develop a compelling, common team purpose2:40
After completing this lecture students will know how to create a shared purpose which truly motivates team members to work together and try their best.
Condition 2: Define and agree a clear set of team performance goals0:43
After watching this mini-lecture students will have a better understanding of how to operationalize the team's shared purpose into actionable performance goals
Condition 3: Agree on an explicit approach of how to get the work done1:35
After watching this mini-lecture students will understand the importance of guiding their team through a process to clarify what each person brings to the team and what each person will do to contribute to the team's pursuit of its shared purpose
Exercise: Turning Your Group Into A Team0:28

Condition 4: Create a deep sense of cohesion1:59
This mini-lecture provides an introduction to the key issues that can stand in the way of a sense of cohesiveness between team members
Dimension 1: Communicating3:53
After watching this mini-lecture students will have gained a better understanding about key cultural differences in communication preferences and will have gained some actionable tips on how to better bridge such differences when working in a team with members from different cultures.
Dimension 2: Giving feedback5:37
After watching this mini-lecture students will have gained a better understanding about key cultural differences in how people from different countries are trained to give feedback and will have gained some actionable tips on how to better bridge such differences when working in a team with members from different cultures.
Dimension 3: Persuading3:35
After watching this mini-lecture students will have gained a better understanding about how people from different countries have different customs for how they tend to use reasoning to persuade others. By the end of the lecture they will have gained some actionable tips on how to better bridge such differences when working in a team with members from different cultures.
Dimension 4: Leading2:33
After watching this mini-lecture students will have gained a better understanding about how people from different countries have different customs for how they relate to people in higher positions. By the end of the lecture they will have gained some actionable tips on how to better bridge such differences when working in a team with members from different cultures.
Dimension 5: Deciding2:12
After watching this mini-lecture students will have gained a better understanding about how people from different countries have different customs for how they go about decision making. By the end of the lecture they will have gained some actionable tips on how to better bridge such differences when working in a team with members from different cultures.
Understanding your team’s personality differences4:19
After watching this mini-lecture students will have gained a better understanding of how to successfully raise awareness among a group of people about their differences in culture and personalities, and guide them through a process to discover how they can bridge and even leverage those differences.

Condition 5: Create a culture of helpfulness2:55
After watching this mini-lecture students will have gained an understanding of how to introduce a culture of "helping" into their teams
Condition 6: Foster an environment conducive to learning1:07
After watching this mini-lecture students will have gained a better understanding of what they as a leader need to do to create a psychologically safe environment for others to continue to learn and try new things.
Condition 7: Enable Extreme X-Team Communication1:19
After watching this mini-lecture students will have gained a quick understanding of how communication plays a key role in a team's ultimate success
Wrap up1:00
Exercise: Part 2 of How To Make You Team Operate More Successfully0:15

Requirements

No requirements! Just a willingness to do some work, because you cannot strengthen & develop your leadership by just watching the class videos. The real learning is in completing the accompanying exercises which are build into this class. So you have to be willing and able to take some time to complete those exercises.
You do not require previous knowledge on this topic - I will take you step by step through the different concepts presented in this course
Printable worksheets are provided for each exercise, but you can also just view those on screen to guide you through the exercises and then write your answers in a note book or on a piece of paper.
At the end of the curriculum you'll find a downloadable copy of the class syllabus, which contains a full transcript of the class.

Description

As a leader, we achieve our organizational goals through the work of our people. But that is easier said than done. To achieve your vision, your people will have to work together, which involves a great number of challenges.

Irrespective of your people’s individual expertise, motivation, and emotional intelligence, the sum of their parts is usually smaller than the whole, unless you as the leader have carefully created the required conditions for them to work effectively together.

That is the topic of this class: We will together explore what the 7 conditions are that you as a leader need to create to help your people to come together as a team and enable them to work together successfully.

Building and sustaining a successful team is like making a soufflé: it requires careful attention to many details – omit one and your soufflé will fail.

Similarly, the 7 aspects of successful team management, which we will discuss in this class are not a list from which to choose some and ignore others. They are interdependent. Together these 7 conditions provide the framework for your team to succeed. Omit one of them and your team may not outright fail, but will likely trip or falter at some point.

We have broken these 7 conditions for building and sustaining a successful team into 2 parts. The first 3 conditions show you how to enable a group to become a team. The next 4 conditions focus on what you need to do to enable a team to operate successfully.

Who this course is for:

This is a course for managers and leaders who want to learn what the conditions are that you as a leader need to create to help your people to come together as a team and enable them to work together successfully.
This is not a course about just general team management - this is a course for managers and leaders who want to go the extra mile to create a truly high-performing team

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Introduction1 lecture • 2min

How A Group becomes A Team4 lectures • 5min

How a team operates successfully7 lectures • 24min

The last 3 conditions5 lectures • 7min

Download Class Syllabus2 lectures • 1min

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