The Power of Team Culture

This course is part of Culture-Driven Team Building Specialization

Instructor: Greg Urban, Ph.D.

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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8 hours to complete

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Behind the success and failure of teams lies team culture. But what exactly is culture? How and why does it contribute to success and failure? In this course, you learn how to recognize aspects of team culture of which most people are typically unaware. It is often these seemingly unimportant aspects that have the greatest effect on the outcomes of group tasks. Your recognition of them enables you to form, join and lead teams more effectively. You also come to appreciate the role of ritual and symbols in the daily operation of teams, as well as in situations of change and crisis. Knowledge of the ideas and information in this class enables you to be a better team player and a more effective team leader.

What's included

2 readings

In this unit, we will begin by defining the "team" and then proceed to explore what enables teams to function, the role that culture plays in every team, and how "habitus" and "cultural fit" could affect our performance in specific teams.

What's included

13 videos2 readings1 assignment2 discussion prompts

13 videosTotal 63 minutes

1.1 Introduction2 minutes
1.2 What are Teams?5 minutes
1.3 A Closer Look at Culture5 minutes
1.4 Culture as Cultivation6 minutes
1.5 Being Unaware of Culture5 minutes
1.6 Expectations and Realities4 minutes
1.7 The Little Cultural Things that Matter6 minutes
1.8 Culture Shock6 minutes
1.9 Habitus4 minutes
1.10 Characteristic Ways of Speaking within the Team5 minutes
1.11 What We Say Versus What We Do5 minutes
1.12 Hiring and Cultural Fit4 minutes
1.13 High Culture6 minutes

2 readingsTotal 20 minutes

Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan10 minutes
Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Why Culture Matters in Organizations30 minutes

2 discussion promptsTotal 20 minutes

What teams are you a part of?10 minutes
Have you ever experienced culture shock? Share your experience!10 minutes

Sometimes we must take a step back and view cultural differences from perspectives different from what we're used to. Cultural boundaries exist everywhere. Differences can be found within one culture as well. Have you ever considered that a smile isn't just a simple natural response? In this unit we delve deeper into culture and the differences amongst various cultures, including corporate culture.

What's included

12 videos2 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

12 videosTotal 59 minutes

2.1 Two Examples of Cultural Boundaries5 minutes
2.2 Why Police Boundaries4 minutes
2.3 Culture in Motion5 minutes
2.4 Golden Arches East4 minutes
2.5 The Art of Smiling6 minutes
2.6 The Right to Fire5 minutes
2.7 The Law of Jante5 minutes
2.8 Cultural Relativity and Ethnocentrism5 minutes
2.9 Avoid Stereotyping5 minutes
2.10 A Checklist of Little Differences for Business5 minutes
2.11 Gestures as Boundary Marker5 minutes
2.12 Corporate Personhood5 minutes

2 readingsTotal 20 minutes

Crossing Cultural Boundaries10 minutes
Cultural Relativity & Moral Judgments10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Corporations in Culture30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

Bryan Brothers Chest Bump, have you seen it?10 minutes

Rituals and symbols can be found in every team. They can evoke affect, or feeling, as you will see. Speech, or stories have symbolic meaning too and can do wonders to motivate a group of individuals. In this unit we will examine a number of rituals and symbols, as they exist in their various forms, and discover the way in which they are utilized in teams.

What's included

12 videos2 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

12 videosTotal 61 minutes

3.1 Burning the American Flag5 minutes
3.2 Team Mascots5 minutes
3.3 The Concept of the Symbol4 minutes
3.4 Transference of Affective Quality4 minutes
3.5 The Motivational Video5 minutes
3.6 People as Symbols5 minutes
3.7 The Pragmatics of Motivational Speech6 minutes
3.8 Symbolic Meaning of Stories4 minutes
3.9 Instrumental Symbols: The Gavel5 minutes
3.10 Individual and Collective Rituals6 minutes
3.11 Types of Rituals in Business6 minutes
3.12 Initiation, Enhancement, and Group Worship6 minutes

2 readingsTotal 20 minutes

Symbols10 minutes
Rituals & Culture10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Rituals & Symbols in Organizational Culture30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 10 minutes

Harley-Davidson York Transformation Video10 minutes

In this unit, we will examine inertia, change, and metaculture, introduce interest as a force at work on the motion of culture as well as provide a conclusion to the concepts covered in this course.

What's included

12 videos1 reading1 assignment

12 videosTotal 63 minutes

4.1 Culture in Time5 minutes
4.2 The Inertial Forces5 minutes
4.3 Habit and Drift5 minutes
4.4 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 16 minutes
4.5 More on Reflective Culture or Metaculture as a Force5 minutes
4.6 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 25 minutes
4.7 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 36 minutes
4.8 Secret to Successful Cultural Change5 minutes
4.9 Introducing the Force of Interest5 minutes
4.10 Interest at the Interface between Different Inertial Patterns6 minutes
4.11 The Conditional Motion of Culture6 minutes
4.12 Conclusion6 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Rules, Ultimate Causes, and Cultural Motion by Greg Urban10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Effecting Cultural Continuity & Change30 minutes

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