High-Performance Team Leadership: Lead Teams That Deliver
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High-Performance Team Leadership: Lead Teams That Deliver
This course is part of High Performance Team Leadership For Modern Teams Specialization
Instructor: Evan Kimbrell
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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
- Stakeholder Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Prioritization
- Productivity
- Operational Excellence
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Process Mapping
- Leadership
- Accountability Frameworks
- Team Performance Management
- Delegation Skills
- Team Management
- Strategic Prioritization
- Performance Management
- Business Workflow Analysis
- Team Leadership
- Workflow Management
- Team Building
- Management Training And Development
- Strategic Leadership
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March 2026
8 assignments
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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 videos•Total 22 minutes
- Defining Team Purpose, Outcomes & Success Signals•8 minutes
- Outcome Mapping & Metrics Trees•7 minutes
- Designing Roles, Ownership & Interfaces•7 minutes
8 readings•Total 300 minutes
- Purpose, Mission, Outcomes workshop•30 minutes
- Practicing the 4 metrics•30 minutes
- Going deeper into purpose, mission, and outcomes•50 minutes
- Let's practice building metrics trees•30 minutes
- Going deeper into outcome mapping•35 minutes
- Roles & Responsibilities + Interfaces (Template)•30 minutes
- Spot the Role Collision•45 minutes
- Going deeper into roles and ownership•50 minutes
2 assignments•Total 90 minutes
- Fixing Team Foundations (Purpose, Outcomes, and Ownership)•60 minutes
- Module 1 Knowledge Check•30 minutes
What's included
3 videos7 readings2 assignments
3 videos•Total 23 minutes
- Responsibility Mapping (RACI, RASCI & Variants)•9 minutes
- Decision Governance for Fast, High-Quality Decisions•7 minutes
- Documentation, Standards & Knowledge Repositories•8 minutes
7 readings•Total 220 minutes
- Fix a Broken RACI (Follow-Along)•30 minutes
- Going deeper on RACI, RASCI, and DACI•40 minutes
- Going deeper into decision governance•45 minutes
- Defining your DoR•15 minutes
- Defining your DoD•30 minutes
- Creating your first SOP•30 minutes
- Going deeper into documentation systems•30 minutes
2 assignments•Total 90 minutes
- Build a RASCI + Decision Log for a Cross-Functional Incident•60 minutes
- Module 2 Knowledge Check•30 minutes
What's included
3 videos6 readings2 assignments
3 videos•Total 22 minutes
- Prioritization & Workload Clarity•8 minutes
- Designing Flow of Work & WIP Limits•7 minutes
- Aligning Cadence, Rituals & Team Rhythm•7 minutes
6 readings•Total 210 minutes
- Worksheet: Prioritization Scoring Practice•20 minutes
- Going deeper into prioritization•40 minutes
- Common Flow Problems: What They Usually Signal•10 minutes
- Going deeper into workflows and WIP limits•60 minutes
- Ritual Audit Checklist•20 minutes
- Going deeper into team rhythm•60 minutes
2 assignments•Total 90 minutes
- Fix the Workflow — Prioritization, WIP Limits, and Flow•60 minutes
- Module 3 Knowledge Check•30 minutes
What's included
3 videos6 readings2 assignments
3 videos•Total 21 minutes
- Building Alignment Through Clear Operating Standards•6 minutes
- Decision Logs, Action Tracking & Knowledge Sharing•7 minutes
- Continuous Improvement & Performance Diagnostics•8 minutes
6 readings•Total 170 minutes
- Team Operating Standards Worksheet•20 minutes
- Going deeper into operating standards•45 minutes
- Weak vs. Strong Action Items•15 minutes
- Going deeper into decision logs and action items•35 minutes
- Early Warning Signals and What They Usually Mean•15 minutes
- Going deeper into continuous improvement•40 minutes
2 assignments•Total 90 minutes
- Fixing a Team’s Operating Model (Standards, Decision Logs, and Continuous Improvement)•60 minutes
- Module 4 Knowledge Check•30 minutes
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