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Building High-Performing Teams

Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers miscommunicate, and groups struggle to adapt to changes in the market or their organizations. When teams lack self-awareness about these challenges, performance suffers. Based on years of team culture research and consulting experience, this course helps you understand the problems that hurt productivity, and gives you tools for creating positive change. This course also guides you through creating the ground rules and structure needed to set your team up for success. You gain the skills to diagnose issues such as conflicts, groupthink and lack of commitment in your team before they get out of control. The course offers frameworks to adjust team behaviors and get the best performance out of your people. You also understand frequent stumbling blocks for common team types, such as startups and virtual teams, and learn solutions tailored to each one.

Status: Team Building
Status: Employee Coaching
BeginnerCourse16 hours

Featured reviews

JP

Reviewed May 3, 2020

The course content was effectively communicated with a timeline that was structured for me to remain disappointed and focused but not overwhelmed.

DM

Reviewed Apr 30, 2017

very good framework to understand and build teams but also with very actionable tools in a day-by-day job reality

AJ

Reviewed Sep 12, 2020

This course really identifies the issues that inhibits the performance of various teams. It also gives insights on how to address these issues and increase productivity. Totally worth it!!!

KQ

Reviewed Apr 22, 2020

The course opened my eyes to a wide range of issues affecting team performance. The skill I learnt will be genuinely useful for my work.

MA

Reviewed Sep 16, 2023

The training is very insightful and expand ones knowledge to diverse ways of building high performing teams.

AG

Reviewed Feb 19, 2022

Overall good course. Interviews conducted with Industry Leaders are very infomative to learn from real life experiences.

NO

Reviewed Sep 9, 2023

Thank you so much for this opportunity to learn. I have made progress in skills to building a high performance Team. The lessons here are so realistic and enriched with many great insights.

JW

Reviewed Nov 30, 2021

I thought the course material was well presented. The instructor was articulate and easy to understand.

FP

Reviewed Jul 28, 2024

One part on teams that are not start ups or commitees, rather multifunctional teams in same company but with different reporting, partially functional and partially business, could be interesting.

EN

Reviewed Nov 8, 2025

Very good short overview of what really matters in building and maintaining successful high performing teams.

PK

Reviewed Dec 9, 2018

Was a very insightful course and learnt a lot about getting teams to perform better and be more cohesive.

JY

Reviewed Aug 12, 2020

The professors were fantastic, easy to follow, and engaging. They clearly laid out the material.

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