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Leading High-Performance Teams For Dummies

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Leading High-Performance Teams For Dummies

Starweaver
Dummies for Wiley

Instructors: Starweaver

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

7 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

7 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Analyze the science and models behind high performance, and diagnose a team against the attributes of exceptional teams.

  • Develop core and advanced leadership competencies, become risk ready, and lead a team through change and transition.

  • Staff and onboard a team deliberately against changing workforce needs, and analyze how company culture is established.

  • Sustain performance through culture repair, well-being, conflict handling, measurement, and remote team leadership.

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Assessments

13 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 6 modules in this course

Provides a starting-point assessment that helps learners understand their current readiness across the team leadership skills developed throughout the course. It highlights strengths and development needs across team development models and performance attributes, leadership competencies, risk readiness and change, hiring and onboarding, culture, conflict management, performance measurement, and remote leadership. Results generate a personalized readiness profile and recommended learning path without restricting access to any module.

What's included

1 video4 readings1 assignment

Establishes the foundation for understanding what makes teams perform at an exceptional level. Learners explore the research behind high performance, examine common models of how teams form and develop, and determine what teams need at different stages. The module then develops the ability to diagnose teams using key attributes such as clarity of purpose, trust, psychological safety, accountability, complementary capabilities, and constructive disagreement, while connecting these attributes to measurable business outcomes.

What's included

4 videos2 readings3 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt

Develops the leadership capabilities required to build and guide high-performing teams. Learners assess core competencies such as communication, decision-making, delegation, feedback, and developing others, then explore advanced strategic behaviors including organizational influence and making trade-offs visible. The module also builds risk readiness by helping leaders distinguish intelligent risk-taking from avoidable failure and develops practical approaches for leading teams through change and transition while protecting performance.

What's included

4 videos2 readings3 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt

Focuses on the people and cultural decisions that shape team performance from the beginning. Learners examine changing workforce demographics and expectations, then develop evidence-based approaches to sourcing, interviewing, and selecting talent. The module also covers structured onboarding across the first days, weeks, and months and explores how culture is established through what leaders repeatedly do, reward, ignore, and tolerate, helping learners intentionally create conditions that support high performance.

What's included

4 videos2 readings3 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt

Develops the practices needed to maintain high performance over time. Learners identify workplace culture challenges, support well-being within a manager's appropriate responsibilities, and address team conflict before it undermines performance. The module then focuses on meaningful performance measurement, leading hybrid and remote teams through clear norms and outcome-based management, and building the commercial and financial awareness needed to communicate team performance and requirements in terms the wider organization understands.

What's included

4 videos2 readings3 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt

Provides practical reference, reflection, and application resources that help learners consolidate and apply the team leadership skills developed throughout the course. Resources bring together team development models, high-performance attributes, leadership competencies, risk readiness, change leadership, hiring and onboarding, culture, well-being, conflict management, performance measurement, and hybrid leadership. The collection also includes practical team leadership tips, a comprehensive performance toolkit, and a final project in which learners diagnose a real team and design leadership, staffing, culture, and measurement changes supported by observable evidence and measurable outcomes.

What's included

1 video2 readings1 peer review

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