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.
This course is part of the Leading People and Teams Specialization
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- Leadership Dynamics
- Leadership
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- Team Management
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Designing Your Team for Excellence
Structuring Your Team for Excellence
Managing Team Dynamics
Creating Sustainable Team Performance and Learning
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- 5 stars83.15%
- 4 stars14.65%
- 3 stars1.49%
- 2 stars0.34%
- 1 star0.34%
TOP REVIEWS FROM LEADING TEAMS
A good course. Although within this University of Michigan specialization there are ones that I found more captivating so check out the whole specialization.
This course recall knowledge from other modules, maybe worth to include more content about those other modules for participants that are not enrolled in the entire specialization
Best course for aspiring managers. Professors are generous to share their unlimited knowledge through out the course. RECOMMEND FOR ALL NEW MANAGERS, TEAM LEADERS to enroll this.
I have learned lot from this course and thank you very much conducting this kind of
learning tools to sharp my cleverness. Once again thank you.
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