Leading Teams
- 22 Courses | 16h 50m 57s
- 9 Books | 25h 18m
- 10 Audiobooks | 30h 6m 18s
Build the foundation to help you form effective and agile teams, handle team conflict, encourage team communication and resiliency, and establish team goals and responsibilities through effective feedback. Discover strategies to foster team collaboration and cohesion, manage technical teams, and harness the power of emotions to fuel extraordinary performance. Optimize multicultural leadership style for international teams and apply the proven, five-step plan for success through the SHIFT model. Observe nine powerful practices of really great teams, find out why nice teams finish last, and reveal the secret to unleashing your team's maximum potential.
GETTING STARTED
Becoming an Effective Cross-functional Team Member
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4m 59s
COURSES INCLUDED
Becoming an Effective Cross-functional Team Member
Use strategies to enhance your success as a cross-functional team member
6 videos |
24m
Assessment
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Psychological Safety: Building a Culture of Inclusion and Innovation
Psychological safety involves the feeling of being accepted and respected-believing you can present your true self at work without fear of negative consequences to your self-image, status, or career. But it also goes beyond that to trusting that your team and your workplace is safe for interpersonal risk taking, which is crucial to being in an energized workplace of learners and problem solvers. When there's a high level of psychological safety, there is a culture of inclusion. People feel safe to speak up, to offer ideas, and to ask questions. At the very core of psychological safety is a mindset that welcomes diversity of thought, whether it brings good news, bad news, or a puzzle. In this course, you'll learn what psychological safety is and the big impact it has in the workplace, and how to nurture a mindset of psychological safety and build a skillset that supports it. And you'll learn what challenges might inhibit a culture of psychological safety, solutions for overcoming each challenge, and techniques to measure and sustain high levels of psychological safety in your workplace.
8 videos |
29m
Assessment
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Building the Foundation for an Effective Team
The way in which teams are built is an important factor in determining a project's success. Effective team management requires strong team leadership that clearly outlines your goals and standards of behavior. In this course, you'll learn about the five stages of team development and strategies for selecting high-performing team members most suited for collaboration. You'll also learn some foundations for managing teams successfully, including how to set team goals, assign roles to individuals working on a team, and define specific guidelines for how team members should behave to minimize conflict and optimize teamwork.
8 videos |
20m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Developing a Successful Team
Anyone who is responsible for managing teams will tell you that team dynamics make a huge difference in the working environment. Developing effective project teams is one of the primary aspects of team leadership. In this course, you'll learn how to develop a team culture early on by establishing team member competencies and working to improve team dynamics. You'll also learn about methods used to encourage team participation and motivation and increase teamwork and commitment. Finally, you'll learn about the importance of assessing and improving team performance.
8 videos |
20m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Strategies for Building a Cohesive Team
Team cohesion, or the strength of the links between team members, determines how effective teams will be, especially in responding to outside pressures. A team has to be cohesive if its members are to function as a unit, working closely and efficiently to achieve common goals. In this course, you'll learn methods for effectively building and managing teams that focus on improvements in three areas: communication, cooperation, and trust. You'll learn specific strategies for improving communication and promoting collaboration among staff members working on a team. You'll also learn what signs suggest a lack of trust on a team, and how you can show team leadership by using the right techniques to build trust and improve teamwork.
8 videos |
20m
Assessment
Badge
Establishing Team Goals and Responsibilities, and Using Feedback Effectively
Everyone working on a team has particular strengths. To get teams to perform at their best, these strengths have to be recognized, reflected in the roles and responsibilities assigned to team members, and directed toward achieving suitable goals. In this course, you'll learn techniques for building and managing teams, including how to set effective team goals, identify roles, assess team members' competencies, and assign roles based on these competencies. You'll also learn how to give and receive feedback effectively to improve teamwork, so that it strengthens your team leadership and the collaboration between your team members.
8 videos |
22m
Assessment
Badge
Strategies for Managing Technical Teams
Effective team leadership in the dynamic technology field is integral to business success, but managing technical teams has unique hurdles. In this course, you'll learn what the hurdles are when working on a team and managing teams in the technology field. You'll cover the qualities of a tech manager, and tips to manage tech teamwork to encourage effective collaboration.
6 videos |
18m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Facing the Management Challenges of Difficult Behavior and Diverse Teams
As a manager, it can be daunting to find yourself in charge of a diverse group, comprised of different age ranges, backgrounds, and experiences. It's inevitable that you'll encounter difficulties. Effectively handling conflict, whether it's team conflict or difficult employee behavior, is essential to productivity and requires developing conflict management skills. This course covers useful techniques and processes for conflict resolution. You'll learn methods for resolving conflict when dealing with an employee's difficult behavior. You'll also learn ways of effectively managing team conflict and understanding and dealing with conflict in the workplace as a whole.
7 videos |
20m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Leadercamp on-demand: 10 Essential Team Needs
In the business world, it's crucial to foster engagement, boost productivity, and tackle mental fatigue and burnout. Extensive research reveals that neglecting any of ten essential needs leads to burnout, mental health challenges, disengagement, absenteeism, and reduced productivity. In this Leadercamp, workplace wellness expert Beverly Beuermann-King reveals how to effectively support your team as they respond to challenges and cope with change. By investing in the essential needs of your team, you will discover practical ways to support your team, enhance their wellbeing, and create a resilient and high-performing workforce. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock your team's full potential, foster engagement, prevent burnout, and bolster resilience amidst uncertainty.
1 video |
56m
Assessment
Badge
Leadercamp on-demand: The Kind Leader Series - Collaboration
In the fourth and final Leadercamp on the power of kind leadership, we will build on recovering and redirecting your self-control, and creating more time to devote toward developing those around you through effective and valuable communication skills as you build powerful 1-2-1 relationships. Now, we will leverage those relationships to develop team performance through collaboration, and co-create a lasting kindness culture in and around you. It will become evident in how happy people are, and how the numbers in retention, sickness, surveys, and performance all prove the point. Above all, it will highlight how your kind and effective leadership can touch the lives of hundreds, thousands, and even more than you might even expect. In this Leadercamp, Martin Haworth, a 20-year ICF accredited coach and trainer, will help participants recognize the potential of how kindness is vital for working together to realize the synergies of the team-not only for today, but also as a legacy for the future.
1 video |
55m
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PMI PDU
Leadercamp on-demand: The Kind Leader Series - Connection
Following the first of our two Leadercamps on taking back control and gaining flexible leadership time, we'll now focus on the way we maximize our relationships with others. Effective connection with your own team, and influencing peers, bosses and stakeholders is the enabler to success. In the third in a series of four Leadercamps focusing on kind leadership, we use released time to connect effectively, develop productive relationships, be kind to ourselves, and be kind to our people too. In this Leadercamp, ICF accredited coach and trainer Martin Haworth shares his thoughts and very practical ways to work more effectively-and efficiently-with those around you where everyone is a winner in a culture of kindness throughout.
1 video |
57m
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PMI PDU
Leadercamp on-demand: The Kind Leader Series - Control
For many, the very word "control" feels uncomfortable, carrying the relics of old-school leadership from ages past. Yet the attempts to control others remain even today, so we have to be focused on how we view the term. The only person we can control 100% is ourselves, and the realization that it is down to us to manage ourselves first is quite a challenge to many. This kind and appreciative awareness can add to your capability to be your best for yourself, and to be the best you can be for your people too. Being kind to yourself is the first priority to be an outstanding leader and for you to feel great at the same time. In the first part of the four part Leadercamp series on kindness, The Kind Leader, ICF-accredited coach and trainer Martin Haworth shares insights into the CONTROL we have in the work we do, and the lives we lead. Martin presents some simple, kindness tools you can adopt right away to help your performance, well-being, and fulfilment in your everyday world.
1 video |
54m
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PMI PDU
Leadercamp on-demand: The Kind Leader Series - Commitment
Time-the final frontier! For many leaders, having available time is a vague and remote dream. Yet, as we found in the first of our Kind Leader Leadercamps, we have choices we are completely in CONTROL of. How we decide to commit our time is 100% a choice. Yet the changes we need to make can prove challenging at first. How we use kindness to make the difference is where we spend our time as leaders most effectively. In this second in a series of four Leadercamps, ICF-accredited coach and trainer Martin Haworth guides you on a journey to creating more time to lead. You'll discover how to be Kinder to yourself, with plenty of time to be the leader even you would follow! And kinder to your people as you have space to support and develop them in a nurturing and enjoyable culture. You'll learn some simple insights and tweaks to your current skills to give you all the time you need at work-and still get home in time for dinner!
1 video |
55m
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PMI PDU
Leadercamp on-demand: Implementing Servant Leadership in the Corporate World
Today, business leaders understand the importance of People and Culture. All progressive organizations accept that People and Culture play a big role in organization success. At the core of creating a right culture is the leadership philosophy that the organization embraces. While there are many "People friendly" leadership philosophies out there, there is only one leadership philosophy that balances beautifully between results and relationship by truly being "People centered." This philosophy is Servant Leadership. There is a lot of literature on Servant Leadership. Most of the body of knowledge on Servant Leadership talks about what Servant Leadership is. Even when we understand the concept and might even like it, we are at a loss when it comes to actually implementing it at our workplace. This Leadercamp shifts the focus from the "what" of Servant Leadership to the "how."
1 video |
56m
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PMI PDU
Leadercamp on-demand: Servant Leadership
In recent years, we have witnessed phenomena like the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, moonlighting, and, most recently, the tech layoffs. On top of that, very credible research shows that only 32% of employees actually trust their leaders to do the right thing. This has brought back the focus on determining the right leadership philosophy to be practiced in organizations. While there are many "people-friendly" leadership philosophies out there, there is only one leadership philosophy that balances results and relationships by truly being "people-centered." This philosophy is servant leadership. In this Leadercamp, servant leadership evangelist, thought leader, organization builder, and author Dr. Madana Kumar addresses the "how" of servant leadership rather than the "what" of the concept. The session is designed with the learning objectives that can be summed up in his EDGE paradigm.
1 video |
41m
Assessment
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Leadercamp on-demand: Unlocking Your Leadership Potential
In today's dynamic and demanding work environment, effective leadership requires moving beyond conventional skills. This Leadercamp session, "Unlocking Your Leadership Potential: Embracing Growth, Cultivating Trust, and Navigating Ambiguity," will explore the shift from a performance mindset to a mastery mindset. Understanding and managing this transition is essential for overcoming challenges, making strategic decisions, and fostering trust. In this Leadercamp, Martina Felderman will engage participants in self-reflective exercises designed to apply these insights, thereby enhancing their leadership effectiveness and resilience in a rapidly evolving environment.
1 video |
55m
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Talent Development and Transformation: Transforming Your Leadership: Session Replay
This is a recorded replay of the Talent Development and Transformation: Transforming Your Leadership Leadercamp Live session that ran on January 19th at 2 PM ET led by Elisa Vincent, VP Talent Enablement at Skillsoft. Elisa is joined by Cathy Light, CEO of Lideranca Group. Learning and leadership development are life-long journeys that start with the self. In this session, you will get an opportunity to reflect on your current leadership style, and build behaviors and mindsets required to lead new world challenges and people through change and disruption. Through this session, you will learn to: • Adopt a focused and flexible mindset to meet leadership challenges • Respond quickly with adaptive techniques and empower yourself and others • Build self-awareness to effectively demonstrate empathy and emotional intelligence
1 video |
1h 29m
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Leading In The New Normal Leadercamp: Session 1 Replay
This is a recorded Replay of the Leading in the New Normal Live session that ran on May 26th at 11 AM ET with Elisa Vincent, VP Talent Enablement Skillsoft. This first session focuses on building resilience, effectiveness, and wellness, so that you can develop and deploy the behaviors and mindsets most effective to facing rapid change and challenges.
1 video |
1h 28m
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Leading In The New Normal Leadercamp: Session 2 Replay
This is a recorded Replay of the Leading in the New Normal Live session that ran on May 27th at 11 AM ET with Elisa Vincent, VP Talent Enablement Skillsoft. This second session focuses on how you can be impactful as a manager focused on business continuity, safety and compliance; as a leader focused on inspiring, motivating, and engaging others, and as a driver of strategy focused on setting direction, anticipating roadblocks, and developing agile systems and process.
1 video |
1h 28m
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Leading In The New Normal Leadercamp: Session 3 Replay
This is a recorded Replay of the Leading in the New Normal Live session that ran on May 28th at 11 AM ET with Elisa Vincent, VP Talent Enablement Skillsoft. This third session discusses how to enable people and work through effective change leadership and by creating cultural and business continuity - focusing on the 3 Ps of leading an organizational ecosystem: People, Programs, and Places.
1 video |
1h 30m
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Encouraging Team Communication and Collaboration
Managing teams successfully involves ensuring that team members can communicate with you and with one another and that they will collaborate effectively as a team. To achieve this, clear channels of communication are required for both on-site and virtual teams. In this course, you'll learn how to demonstrate team leadership by encouraging effective communication and overcoming communication problems. You'll explore strategies for encouraging team collaboration. Finally, you'll learn about tools and technologies that are commonly used for virtual teamwork and key considerations for establishing virtual communication guidelines.
8 videos |
21m
Assessment
Badge
PMI PDU
Handling Team Conflict
Successful teams are characterized by having a clear direction, trust among team members, effective communication, and a clear process for managing team conflict. The survival of a team depends on a leader who can quickly recognize team conflict, diagnose its cause, and implement conflict resolution strategies. In this course, you'll learn about what causes conflict on a team and the important role of healthy communication in handling conflict. You'll discover best practice approaches to dealing with conflict. You'll also explore the tenets of principled negotiation in managing conflict. Finally, you'll learn guidelines for resolving conflict that address one specific type of conflict: lack of trust.
8 videos |
24m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
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Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
Book
Leading Agile TeamsPresenting a practical and engaging guide to help your organization embrace a more agile mindset, this book will give you the knowledge and tools you need to create and sustain strong agile teams, and is written for the developers, project managers, product owners, and ScrumMasters, who do most of the legwork in getting agile up and running.
4h 16m
By Doug Rose
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Leading Teams: Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the Sports WorldDrawing upon the authors' unique experiences working with top sports coaches, as well as some of the world's leading corporate executives, this book offers important insights into team leadership and motivation, as well as tools for optimizing teamwork and inspiring teams to reach new heights.
4h 59m
By Dino Ruta, Paolo Guenzi
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Committed Teams: Three Steps to Inspiring Passion and PerformanceA practical book for building great teams, this concise guide identifies the common challenges that arise when people work together as a group and provides key guidance on breaking through the barriers to peak performance.
3h 52m
By Derek Newberry, Madeline Boyer, Mario Moussa
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Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional ResultsThrough simple frameworks brought to life with stories from the trenches, this book gives leaders a way to get the best out of their teams by focusing their energy where it will make the biggest difference.
2h 54m
By Mike Figliuolo, Victor Prince
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Managing Successful TeamsOffering valuable advice and practical strategies, this helpful book prepares managers to meet the challenges of building and leading teams, showing how to improve performance and achieve the best results.
2h 19m
By Pat Wellington
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Primal Teams: Harnessing the Power of Emotions to Fuel Extraordinary PerformanceIllustrated with compelling examples, this groundbreaking guide shows how anyone can control potentially damaging emotions, while triggering the kind of passion and energy that supercharge performance.
3h 42m
By Jackie Barretta
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Optimization of Leadership Style: New Approaches to Effective Multicultural Leadership in International TeamsExplaining ten selected and powerful leadership enablers to motivate, develop, and manage international teams, this book focuses on managers and employees involved in multicultural teams of organizations.
3h 1m
By Reinhold Kohler
BOOK SUMMARY
Wellbeing at Work: How to Build Resilient and Thriving TeamsIn Wellbeing at Work, Clifton and Harter provide readers with substantial evidence that wellbeing in the workplace is not only possible but essential for a thriving life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
8m
By Jim Clifton, Jim Harter
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The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for TeamsIn The Song of Significance, author Seth Godin presents a profound and insightful discussion on transforming organizations into more impactful and human-centered entities. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Seth Godin
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams9 Powerful Practices of Really Great Teams discusses the nature of effective teams, and explore the habits all successful teams cultivate for best results. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
20m 2s
By Stephen E. Kohn, Vincent D. O'Connell
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Nice Teams Finish Last: The Secret to Unleashing Your Team's Maximum PotentialNice Teams Finish Last debunks commonly-held myths about effective teamwork, and shows that playing NICE in the workplace is a recipe for mediocrity. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
16m 37s
By Brian Cole Miller
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Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent TimesPower Your Tribe provides the core principles you need to guide your team through adapting to relentless internal and external changes. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
23m 19s
By Christine Comaford
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Unstoppable Teams: The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance LeadershipIn Unstoppable Teams, author Alden Mills draws on his experience as a three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander to share his knowledge about how to cultivate teams that can withstand any situation, no matter how difficult. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
14m 18s
By Alden Mills
Audiobook
Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional ResultsThis audio edition gives leaders a way to get the best out of their teams by focusing their energy where it will make the biggest difference.
6h 6m 54s
By Mike Figliuolo, Victor Prince
Audiobook
Make the SHIFT: The Proven Five-Step Plan to Success for Corporate TeamsThis audio edition presents a proven, five-step method that takes businesses where they need to go in these uncertain economic times.
3h 46m 46s
By Beverly D. Flaxington
Audiobook
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableThis audio edition outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.
3h 42m 59s
By Patrick Lencioni
Audiobook
Extreme Dreams Depend on TeamsThis audio edition shows how the greatest world-changing events came to be as the result of the passion of single individuals working together. Read by the author.
8h 25m 33s
By Jim Denney, Pat Williams
Audiobook
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams: HBR's 10 Must Reads SeriesIf you read (or listen) to nothing else on building better teams, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you assemble and steer teams that get results.
6h 32m 46s
By Harvard Business Review, Jon R. Katzenbach, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Lynda Gratton
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Wellbeing at Work: How to Build Resilient and Thriving TeamsIn Wellbeing at Work, Clifton and Harter provide readers with substantial evidence that wellbeing in the workplace is not only possible but essential for a thriving life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
17m 4s
By Jim Clifton, Jim Harter
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading & Managing Teams
Successful teams are essential for effective business execution, whether they are co-located or virtual teams. Get the most out of your team for optimal results by planning, managing, and leading your teams. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
11m
| 11 questions