In this course, you will learn how to build your team, improve teamwork and collaboration, and sustain team performance through continuous learning and improvement. Specifically, you will learn best practices for composing a team and aligning individual and team goals. You will also learn how to establish roles, build structures, and manage decision making so that your team excels. This course will also help you manage critical team processes such as conflict resolution and building trust that have a profound impact on your team’s performance. You will discuss some of the best ways to harness the productive potential of teams while mitigating the risks and traps of teamwork.
Leading Teams
Leading Teams
This course is part of Leading People and Teams Specialization
Instructors: Maxim Sytch, Ph.D.
Sponsored by University of Michigan
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Learn how to build your team, and improve teamwork and collaboration.
Establish roles, build structures, and manage decision making.
Manage critical team processes such as conflict resolution.
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There are 4 modules in this course
As a team leader, you must determine how best to compose and structure your team. You will need to determine the optimal team size, diversity of team members, values, and goals for the team -- all of which will have a big impact on team dynamics and performance. In this module, you will learn strategies and tactics to design your team effectively.
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15 videos7 readings1 assignment
In the first module of the course, we discussed your role as a team leader in designing your team's size, composition, diversity of personalities and values, and goals. In addition, you must determine how best to structure your team, specifically how you will structure decision making, rewards, and roles. You must also ensure the team has a clear set of norms that guide its behavior. In this module, you will learn strategies and tactics to structure your team effectively.
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13 videos5 readings1 assignment
It is common to see teams working on identical tasks and having similar access to organizational resources and talent produce systematically different performance outcomes. This occurs because we mismanage team processes, or how teammates work on the task and interact with one another during teamwork. In this module, you will learn how to recognize most typically process hurdles in teamwork and how to overcome them, thus creating high-performing teams.
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8 videos2 readings1 assignment
This module is focused on creating sustainable levels of high-performance in teams. In this module you will therefore learn how to evaluate team performance and how to ensure this high performance is sustainable in your teams. Relatedly, we will discuss how to ensure team learning and effective flow of new ideas in your teams.
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15 videos3 readings1 assignment1 peer review
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GG
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Reviewed on Nov 7, 2022
This course is very useful for a organization which have team for service or production. It's guide for better organization of team to achieve our goal without any doubt and stress.
CE
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Reviewed on Mar 1, 2016
Good course. I immediately recognised some of the situations that were discussed. The analysis about the effects of values vs demographic vs cultural differences in teams. Are especially good.
TS
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Reviewed on Jan 30, 2016
A good course. Although within this University of Michigan specialization there are ones that I found more captivating so check out the whole specialization.
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