Leading teams

In this course, you will learn how to build your team, improve teamwork and collaboration, and maintain team effectiveness through continuous learning and improvement. In particular, you will learn best practices for team building and aligning individual and team goals. You will also learn how to assign roles, create structures, and manage decision making to ensure your team achieves high results. This course will also help you manage important team processes such as conflict resolution and trust building, which have a profound impact on your team’s effectiveness. You will discuss some of the best ways to harness the productive potential of teams while reducing the risks and pitfalls of teamwork. In today’s organization, much of the work is done in teams, yet the results of teamwork are extremely mixed. Many teams are poorly designed and structured, fraught with dysfunctional conflict, lacking coordination, and severe motivation problems. As a result, many teams fail to realize their potential and often fail to perform as well as individuals working on similar tasks. Upon completion of this course, you will have mastered a set of tools and practical techniques that will enable you to effectively build, manage, evaluate and continuously improve your team. This knowledge will make you not only a more effective team leader, but also an outstanding team member.