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High-Performance Team Leadership: Lead Teams That Deliver

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High-Performance Team Leadership: Lead Teams That Deliver

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Beginner level

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2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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

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March 2026

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8 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the High Performance Team Leadership For Modern Teams Specialization
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There are 4 modules in this course

Lead high-performing teams by designing the systems that make execution consistent, fast, and scalable. In this course, you’ll learn how strong managers translate company goals into clear team outcomes, define success signals, and build alignment around what “good” looks like. You’ll practice outcome mapping and metrics trees to connect daily work to measurable results, assign ownership without creating blame, and diagnose gaps when outcomes or measurement are unclear.

You’ll also learn how to reduce friction through role clarity, clean handoffs, and responsibility mapping using frameworks like RACI, RASCI, and DACI. Finally, you’ll build lightweight operating standards—Definitions of Ready, Definitions of Done, and practical SOPs—and structure a team knowledge base that supports onboarding, autonomy, and scale. By the end, you’ll have practical templates and ready-to-use artifacts you can apply immediately to improve decision speed, execution quality, and team performance.

What's included

3 videos8 readings2 assignments

3 videosTotal 22 minutes
  • Defining Team Purpose, Outcomes & Success Signals8 minutes
  • Outcome Mapping & Metrics Trees7 minutes
  • Designing Roles, Ownership & Interfaces7 minutes
8 readingsTotal 300 minutes
  • Purpose, Mission, Outcomes workshop30 minutes
  • Practicing the 4 metrics30 minutes
  • Going deeper into purpose, mission, and outcomes50 minutes
  • Let's practice building metrics trees30 minutes
  • Going deeper into outcome mapping35 minutes
  • Roles & Responsibilities + Interfaces (Template)30 minutes
  • Spot the Role Collision45 minutes
  • Going deeper into roles and ownership50 minutes
2 assignmentsTotal 90 minutes
  • Fixing Team Foundations (Purpose, Outcomes, and Ownership)60 minutes
  • Module 1 Knowledge Check30 minutes

What's included

3 videos7 readings2 assignments

3 videosTotal 23 minutes
  • Responsibility Mapping (RACI, RASCI & Variants)9 minutes
  • Decision Governance for Fast, High-Quality Decisions7 minutes
  • Documentation, Standards & Knowledge Repositories8 minutes
7 readingsTotal 220 minutes
  • Fix a Broken RACI (Follow-Along)30 minutes
  • Going deeper on RACI, RASCI, and DACI40 minutes
  • Going deeper into decision governance45 minutes
  • Defining your DoR15 minutes
  • Defining your DoD30 minutes
  • Creating your first SOP30 minutes
  • Going deeper into documentation systems30 minutes
2 assignmentsTotal 90 minutes
  • Build a RASCI + Decision Log for a Cross-Functional Incident60 minutes
  • Module 2 Knowledge Check30 minutes

What's included

3 videos6 readings2 assignments

3 videosTotal 22 minutes
  • Prioritization & Workload Clarity8 minutes
  • Designing Flow of Work & WIP Limits7 minutes
  • Aligning Cadence, Rituals & Team Rhythm7 minutes
6 readingsTotal 210 minutes
  • Worksheet: Prioritization Scoring Practice20 minutes
  • Going deeper into prioritization40 minutes
  • Common Flow Problems: What They Usually Signal10 minutes
  • Going deeper into workflows and WIP limits60 minutes
  • Ritual Audit Checklist20 minutes
  • Going deeper into team rhythm60 minutes
2 assignmentsTotal 90 minutes
  • Fix the Workflow — Prioritization, WIP Limits, and Flow60 minutes
  • Module 3 Knowledge Check30 minutes

What's included

3 videos6 readings2 assignments

3 videosTotal 21 minutes
  • Building Alignment Through Clear Operating Standards6 minutes
  • Decision Logs, Action Tracking & Knowledge Sharing7 minutes
  • Continuous Improvement & Performance Diagnostics8 minutes
6 readingsTotal 170 minutes
  • Team Operating Standards Worksheet20 minutes
  • Going deeper into operating standards45 minutes
  • Weak vs. Strong Action Items15 minutes
  • Going deeper into decision logs and action items35 minutes
  • Early Warning Signals and What They Usually Mean15 minutes
  • Going deeper into continuous improvement40 minutes
2 assignmentsTotal 90 minutes
  • Fixing a Team’s Operating Model (Standards, Decision Logs, and Continuous Improvement)60 minutes
  • Module 4 Knowledge Check30 minutes

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