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High Performance Team Leadership For Modern Teams Specialization

PracticalGrowth

High Performance Team Leadership For Modern Teams Specialization

High Performance Management For Modern Teams.

Lead modern teams with practical systems for execution, coaching, and retention

Evan Kimbrell

Instructor: Evan Kimbrell

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design team operating systems with clear outcomes, metrics, roles, and ownership

  • Run meetings that drive decisions and follow through using agendas, facilitation, and decision logs

  • Coach and retain talent with clear standards, feedback, delegation, morale rituals, and stay interviews

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March 2026

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Specialization - 5 course series

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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Team Leadership
Category: Accountability Frameworks
Category: Team Performance Management
Category: Team Management
Category: Business Workflow Analysis
Category: Prioritization
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Leadership
Category: Workflow Management
Category: Delegation Skills
Category: Team Building
Category: Productivity
Category: Performance Management
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Process Mapping
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Operational Excellence
Category: Strategic Prioritization
Category: Management Training And Development
Meeting Mastery: Clear Outcomes, Better Decisions

Meeting Mastery: Clear Outcomes, Better Decisions

Course 2, 21 hours

What you'll learn

  • Decide when to meet vs async, and write purpose + outcomes that make meetings worth the time.

  • Design agendas, pre-reads, roles, and cadence to run shorter meetings with clear decisions and action items

  • Facilitate inclusively in hybrid/remote settings using timeboxing, WIP limits, and RAPID decision roles

Skills you'll gain

Category: Meeting Facilitation
Category: Decision Making
Category: Follow Through
Category: Communication Strategies
Category: Virtual Teams
Category: Taking Meeting Minutes
Category: Goal Setting
Category: Collaboration
Category: Telecommuting
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Accountability Frameworks
Category: Discussion Facilitation
Category: Planning
Category: Conflict Management
Category: Process Improvement
Category: Time Management
Category: Business Communication
Category: Workplace inclusivity
Category: Accountability
High-Morale Teams: Build Belonging, Energy, and Focus

High-Morale Teams: Build Belonging, Energy, and Focus

Course 3, 21 hours

What you'll learn

  • Diagnose morale drivers and spot early warning signs (safety, trust, fairness, clarity) before issues escalate.

  • Build belonging with rituals and recognition that lands—fair, specific, and effective in hybrid/remote teams.

  • Redesign work for energy: job crafting, autonomy guardrails, and sustainable stretch assignments without burnout.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Team Motivation
Category: Employee Engagement
Category: Recognizing Others
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Team Management
Category: Trustworthiness
Category: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Category: Telecommuting
Category: Team Performance Management
Category: Motivational Skills
Category: People Development
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Team Building
Category: Drive Engagement

What you'll learn

  • Spot early attrition risk using behavioral signals, context clues, and lightweight team-health metrics.

  • Design sustainable workload and remove friction with practical manager moves (WIP limits, rotation, simplification).

  • Build career momentum with opportunities, sponsorship, and stay interviews—then turn insights into a retention playbook.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Employee Retention
Category: Recognizing Others
Category: Capacity Management
Category: Team Performance Management
Category: Team Management
Category: Workforce Management
Category: Workforce Planning
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Succession Planning
Category: Professional Development
Category: People Management
Category: Employee Surveys
Category: Employee Engagement
Category: Interviewing Skills
Category: Process Improvement
Category: Employee Coaching
Category: Driving engagement
Category: Telecommuting
Category: Talent Management
Category: People Development

What you'll learn

  • Turn vague expectations into clear, observable performance standards and simple scorecards

  • Run coaching conversations using SBI/AID + feed-forward to drive behavior change.

  • Use delegation, IDPs, and mini-rubrics to build skills—and manage highs, medians, and lows fairly.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Employee Coaching
Category: Delegation Skills
Category: Coaching
Category: Constructive Feedback
Category: Employee Performance Management
Category: Performance Management
Category: People Development
Category: People Management
Category: Performance Metric
Category: Performance Appraisal
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Mentorship
Category: Performance Measurement
Category: Management Training And Development
Category: Training and Development
Category: Goal Setting
Category: Team Performance Management
Category: Accountability Frameworks
Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Category: Performance Review

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Instructor

Evan Kimbrell
PracticalGrowth
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