Culture-Driven Team Building

Offered By: University of Pennsylvania via Coursera

Course Description

Overview

Master the strategies and tools that enable you to form, join and lead teams more effectively. In this five-course specialization, you learn how to: · Recognize aspects of team culture · Draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams · Handle conflict · Establish common ground rules · Maximize team performance · Create a team culture of continuous learning The program culminates in a capstone project in which you apply the skills you learned. You observe, diagnose and make recommendations to solve a team culture problem in a real-world case provided by N2Growth, a global consultancy focused on cultural transformation and leadership development.

Syllabus

Course 1: The Power of Team Culture
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. Behind the success and failure of teams lies team culture. But what exactly is culture? How and why ... Enroll for free.

Course 2: Building High-Performing Teams
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers ... Enroll for free.

Course 3: Optimizing Diversity on Teams
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. By drawing on social science perspectives, this course enables you to learn what diversity is, and ... Enroll for free.

Course 4: Creating a Team Culture of Continuous Learning
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. There is mounting concern that organizational groups and teams often fail to learn from their past ... Enroll for free.

Course 5: Culture-Driven Team Building Capstone
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. In this capstone project class, you analyze a real-world case provided by N2Growth, a global firm ... Enroll for free.

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10 hours 28 minutes
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There is mounting concern that organizational groups and teams often fail to learn from their past experiences. It’s pertinent to address this issue as groups and teams are often the main ways that work gets done in organizations. In this course, we examine the main reasons that groups and teams are often ineffective, which include: • The lack of organizational structures and support for teams and groups • The lack of understanding and emphasis on learning • Misaligned reward structures So, what can be done to create an enabling learning culture in teams? This course emphasizes practical and impactful ways to begin to address this state of affairs. Through the use of stories, scenarios with actors simulating different team issues, examples and dialogue, you learn how to: • Understand teams in their larger organizational context • Diagnose the learning strengths and barriers to learning on teams • Identify ways to develop a team and group that continually learns and impacts the larger organization positively • Create an organizational environment that encourages learning and innovation
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12 hours 15 minutes
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Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers miscommunicate, and groups struggle to adapt to changes in the market or their organizations. When teams lack self-awareness about these challenges, performance suffers. Based on years of team culture research and consulting experience, this course helps you understand the problems that hurt productivity, and gives you tools for creating positive change. This course also guides you through creating the ground rules and structure needed to set your team up for success. You gain the skills to diagnose issues such as conflicts, groupthink and lack of commitment in your team before they get out of control. The course offers frameworks to adjust team behaviors and get the best performance out of your people. You also understand frequent stumbling blocks for common team types, such as startups and virtual teams, and learn solutions tailored to each one.
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8 hours 16 minutes
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Behind the success and failure of teams lies team culture. But what exactly is culture? How and why does it contribute to success and failure? In this course, you learn how to recognize aspects of team culture of which most people are typically unaware. It is often these seemingly unimportant aspects that have the greatest effect on the outcomes of group tasks. Your recognition of them enables you to form, join and lead teams more effectively. You also come to appreciate the role of ritual and symbols in the daily operation of teams, as well as in situations of change and crisis. Knowledge of the ideas and information in this class enables you to be a better team player and a more effective team leader.
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12 hours 7 minutes
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By drawing on social science perspectives, this course enables you to learn what diversity is, and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation and creativity. You also learn how to draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams, handle conflict and establish common ground rules through real-world cases and peer-to-peer discussions. In addition, you discover how to overcome common biases faced in diverse teams. Systems of power, reward and rhetoric are discussed to help you create prosperous teams where differences flourish.
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14 hours 17 minutes
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In this capstone project class, you analyze a real-world case provided by N2Growth, a global firm that helps clients create a culture of leadership through practice areas like strategy, cultural transformation and organizational design. Based on the N2Growth case, you are expected to identify and diagnose organizational issues, select a senior leader and make recommendations in a culminating PowerPoint or Prezi presentation.

Taught by

Alan Barstow, Ph.D., Amrita V. Subramanian, Dana Kaminstein, Ph.D., Derek Newberry, Ph.D., Dr. Aviva Legatt, Greg Urban and Ramya Kumar, MSOD, PGDHRM, SHRM-SCP