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.
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Leading Teams
This course is part of Leading People and Teams Specialization

Instructor: Maxim Sytch, Ph.D.
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What you'll learn
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.
Skills you'll gain
- Team Leadership
- Drive Engagement
- Collaboration
- Performance Management
- Organizational Structure
- Relationship Building
- Team Management
- Teamwork
- Team Performance Management
- Performance Analysis
- Leadership
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Innovation
- Knowledge Transfer
- Conflict Management
- People Development
- Team Motivation
- Team Collaboration
- Rapport Building
- Team Building
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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.
Reviewed on Mar 8, 2021
Absolutely love this course and the whole leading people and teams specialization. The course material is great and the professors teach them very well. Thank you professor Scott and Maxim.
Reviewed on Apr 27, 2025
The Leading Teams course equips learners with essential leadership skills, focusing on teamwork, communication, and conflict resolution to build high-performing teams.
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