Leadership: How to Build High Performing Teams and Culture

Explore managing high performing teams & culture

High performing teams are integral to business success. These teams can lead to improved productivity, better decision-making, and increased morale.

On this four-week course, you’ll gain crucial leadership skills to ensure you can help your team evolve and perform at their best.

You’ll discover the relationship between high performing teams and culture as you unpack what makes a team effective. With this knowledge, you’ll finish the course armed with the tools to lead your team to success.

Develop skills to create a high performing culture

You’ll start by exploring the role of culture in a team as you delve into the Google case study of Project Aristotle.

Through this exploration, you’ll learn how you can harness culture to ensure yours is a high performing one.

Explore the stages of development

Next, you’ll learn the techniques for managing group dynamics to ensure your team can work together successfully.

You’ll also explore the stages of development to understand how to guide your team through each stage to help them progress in their roles.

Unpack team performance to avoid team dysfunctions

Finally, you’ll gain key skills to help you avoid team dysfunctions. You’ll learn to identify the factors that could create dysfunctional teams and how you can navigate these to improve teamwork.

You’ll also analyse the characteristics and processes of effective teams before learning how to leverage culture to improve team performance.

By the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledge and leadership skills to bring out the best in your team.

The course is designed for supervisors, managers, and individuals at any level within the organisation, looking to understand the relationship between culture, leadership and team performance, and how to leverage culture to support the development of effective teams.

• Week 1: Designing high performing teams
• Welcome & Course Overview
• Designing and developing high performing teams.
• Summary
• Week 2: Using culture to create high performing culture
• Week 2 Overview
• The Role of Culture
• High performing culture
• Week 2 Summary
• Week 3: Managing team’s dynamics and stages of development
• Week 3 Overview
• Team dynamics and development
• Week 3 Summary
• Week 4: Avoiding team dysfunctions to build high performing teams
• Week 4 Overview
• Team performance and dysfunctions.
• Week 4 Summary