Cultivate Teamwork and Collaboration
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Cultivate Teamwork and Collaboration
This course is part of Build High-Performing Teams Specialization
Instructor: Harvard Business Review
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What you'll learn
Build a strong team, encourage collaboration, and increase productivity without causing burnout
Encourage healthy communication and feedback, build trust, and help your team debate and disagree productively
Support your team through transitions, set motivating goals, and foster accountability
Develop cultural intelligence, communicate across cultures, minimize language barriers, and manage the challenges faced by globally dispersed teams
Skills you'll gain
- Team Management
- Cooperation
- Team Building
- Team Performance Management
- Productivity
- Team Motivation
- Collaboration
- Cultural Sensitivity
- Team Leadership
- Virtual Teams
- Intercultural Competence
- Performance Measurement
- Performance Analysis
- Drive Engagement
- Conflict Management
- Teamwork
- Cultural Diversity
- Team Collaboration
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There are 3 modules in this course
High-performing teams are powered by excellent collaboration and communication. Leaders provide value by fostering team cohesion and motivation. In this course, you’ll learn how to help your team achieve peak performance by aligning around shared goals, creating psychological safety, achieving results without burnout, and supporting healthy conflict resolution. You’ll learn strategies to measure team performance and to handle team changes successfully. You’ll also develop the skills to help globally diverse teams work well together and navigate cultural and linguistic challenges. By honing your ability to cultivate positive team dynamics, you’ll be able to help your team excel.
By the end of this course, learners will be able to design, lead, and sustain high-performing global teams by implementing collaborative strategies, establishing shared purpose, and applying effective team-building techniques to create confident, capable, and resilient teams.
Organizations are powered by teams: groups of people with a shared identity, complementary skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively. As a leader, you can create immense value by knowing how to build and lead teams in ways that maximize their creativity and performance.
What's included
11 videos45 readings1 assignment
11 videos•Total 31 minutes
- Lead Your Team to Peak Performance•3 minutes
- Successfully Launch a New Team•2 minutes
- Overcoming “Dead Air” in Your Meetings•3 minutes
- How to Build and Regain Trust•4 minutes
- Make Good Team Decisions•3 minutes
- Beyond Burned Out•3 minutes
- When Conflict Is Constructive and When It’s Not•3 minutes
- Disagree Without Being Disagreeable•1 minute
- Share the Gift of Team Knowledge•3 minutes
- Create a Culture of Feedback on Your Team•3 minutes
- Recognize and Reward Your Team•3 minutes
45 readings•Total 445 minutes
- Set Your Team Up for Success•5 minutes
- Organizations depend on high-performing teams•10 minutes
- Your role in your team’s success•10 minutes
- How to assemble a team•10 minutes
- Go beyond your usual circles•10 minutes
- Hold a kick-off meeting•10 minutes
- The importance of introductions•10 minutes
- Agree on team norms•10 minutes
- Promote team trust•10 minutes
- Strengthen Team Collaboration•10 minutes
- Collaboration drives achievement•10 minutes
- The building blocks of collaboration•10 minutes
- It’s all about trust•10 minutes
- The big value of small talk•10 minutes
- Collaborate beyond your organization•10 minutes
- Achieve More of What Matters as a Team•10 minutes
- What does productivity really mean?•10 minutes
- Focus on what matters•10 minutes
- Simplify relentlessly•10 minutes
- "Right size" your team•10 minutes
- Make better decisions as a team•10 minutes
- Host fewer, better meetings•10 minutes
- Structure work for dispersed teams•10 minutes
- Protect against burnout•10 minutes
- Lead Your Team Through Conflict•10 minutes
- Conflict can be an asset•10 minutes
- Resolve unhealthy conflict•10 minutes
- Debate and disagree productively•10 minutes
- Encourage the flow of information•10 minutes
- Be fair to everyone on your team•10 minutes
- Navigate Team Transitions•10 minutes
- Lead through uncertainty•10 minutes
- Address people’s emotions•10 minutes
- Deploy strategies for the "messy middle"•10 minutes
- Welcome new team members•10 minutes
- Handle departures gracefully•10 minutes
- Manage the stress of involuntary departures•10 minutes
- Disband a team and preserve knowledge•10 minutes
- Measure and Boost Team Performance•10 minutes
- Build a foundation for high performance•10 minutes
- Set motivating team goals•10 minutes
- Measure what you want to achieve•10 minutes
- Be accountable as a team•10 minutes
- Improve through feedback•10 minutes
- Recognize contributions•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Team Management•30 minutes
In today’s connected world, learning how to collaborate across cultures and languages is more essential than ever. Cultivate your cultural intelligence and build trust between global team members by establishing shared purpose and developing strategies to get back on track if misalignments occur.
What's included
13 videos31 readings1 assignment
13 videos•Total 38 minutes
- Why You Should Work Abroad•2 minutes
- Compare Cultures to Understand Your Own•4 minutes
- How to Build Trust on Your Virtual Team•3 minutes
- How Empathy Can Launch a Conversation•4 minutes
- The Value of Asking Open-Ended Questions•3 minutes
- The Benefits of Mastering Another Language•2 minutes
- Language Policies•3 minutes
- Inconvenience Everyone Equally•3 minutes
- Maintain Momentum with Focused Meetings•2 minutes
- Educate Your Teams•3 minutes
- Position Your International Team for Success•3 minutes
- Experimenting with Team Leadership•2 minutes
- On the Line•3 minutes
31 readings•Total 310 minutes
- Do Business Across Borders•10 minutes
- Business requires global collaboration•10 minutes
- Challenges of global collaboration•10 minutes
- Boost Your Cultural Intelligence•10 minutes
- Understand culture•10 minutes
- The power of underlying forces•10 minutes
- What is cultural intelligence?•10 minutes
- Steps for cultivating your cultural intelligence•10 minutes
- Be your own teacher•10 minutes
- Build Trust Among Collaborators•10 minutes
- Global collaboration requires trust•10 minutes
- Why trust suffers•10 minutes
- Build trust•10 minutes
- Negotiate Across Cultures•10 minutes
- A delicate business•10 minutes
- Steps for negotiating across borders•10 minutes
- Overcome Language Barriers•10 minutes
- Understand language challenges•10 minutes
- Foster inclusive communication•10 minutes
- Support language proficiency•10 minutes
- Transcend Physical Distance•10 minutes
- Three types of distance challenges•10 minutes
- Manage time-zone differences•10 minutes
- Tackle communication difficulties•10 minutes
- Address mutual knowledge gaps•10 minutes
- Align a Global Team•10 minutes
- Global team challenges•10 minutes
- Clarify your purpose•10 minutes
- Foster shared identity•10 minutes
- Clarify roles and responsibilities•10 minutes
- Establish decision-making protocols•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Global Collaboration•30 minutes
What's included
2 assignments
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Course-End Assessment•30 minutes
- Course-End Project•30 minutes
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