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High-Performance Team Leadership: Lead Teams That Deliver

High-Performance Team Leadership: Lead Teams That Deliver

This course is part of High Performance Team Leadership For Modern Teams Specialization

Instructor: Evan Kimbrell

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Define team purpose, outcomes, and success metrics that align work to real impact.
Build metrics trees and assign ownership to track what matters and close gaps fast.
Clarify roles, handoffs, and decision rights using RACI/DACI, DoR/DoD, and SOPs

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See how employees at top companies are mastering in-demand skills

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Build your subject-matter expertise

This course is part of the High Performance Team Leadership For Modern Teams Specialization

When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.

Learn new concepts from industry experts
Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 4 modules in this course

Lead high-performing teams by designing the systems that make execution consistent, fast, and scalable. In this course, you’ll learn how strong managers translate company goals into clear team outcomes, define success signals, and build alignment around what “good” looks like. You’ll practice outcome mapping and metrics trees to connect daily work to measurable results, assign ownership without creating blame, and diagnose gaps when outcomes or measurement are unclear.

You’ll also learn how to reduce friction through role clarity, clean handoffs, and responsibility mapping using frameworks like RACI, RASCI, and DACI. Finally, you’ll build lightweight operating standards—Definitions of Ready, Definitions of Done, and practical SOPs—and structure a team knowledge base that supports onboarding, autonomy, and scale. By the end, you’ll have practical templates and ready-to-use artifacts you can apply immediately to improve decision speed, execution quality, and team performance.