This course explores teamwork as a dynamic system shaped by purpose, structure, roles, influence, leadership, culture, technology, and resilience. Learners will examine why teams lose alignment, how informal influence affects performance, how collaboration breaks down, and how teams can be redesigned for clarity, accountability, adaptability, and long-term effectiveness.

Teamwork: Build and Sustain High-Performing Teams

Teamwork: Build and Sustain High-Performing Teams
This course is part of Modern Teamwork and Stakeholder Leadership Specialization

Instructor: Martine Abboud
Access provided by New York State Department of Labor
What you'll learn
Identify how team purpose, structure, roles, and routines shape performance, alignment, and collective accountability.
Analyse hidden influence, informal decision-making, cultural dynamics, and barriers that affect collaboration inside teams.
Apply practical frameworks to improve role clarity, team resilience, adaptive capacity, and future-ready teamwork.
Skills you'll gain
- Accountability Frameworks
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Trustworthiness
- Team Collaboration
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Accountability
- Team Leadership
- Team Management
- Team Building
- Virtual Teams
- Team Performance Management
- Diversity Awareness
- Collaboration
- Teamwork
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Cultural Diversity
- Drive Engagement
- Team Motivation
- Intercultural Competence
- Leadership
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