Building & Leading Teams
- 5 Courses | 4h 9m 18s
- 45 Books | 35h 7m
- 9 Audiobooks | 19h 56m 19s
Successful teams are essential for effective business execution. Get the most out of your team for optimal results.
COURSES INCLUDED
Welcome to the Leadership Development Program
Whether you’re new to a leadership role or a battle-tested veteran, there is always more to learn about leading people, leading teams, or leading your business. Learning is a life-long journey, and leadership development is an ongoing process. In this course, you'll be introduced to Skillsoft's Leadership Development Program. Comprised of thirty modern competency-based leadership channels, this program will help expand your knowledge about what it takes to be a leader and the necessary mindsets and behaviors that enable successful leaders to face and overcome the challenges they encounter every day. This course provides an introductory overview to the program and the rich array of courses, resources, tools, and expert advice available to help you grow your leadership career."
1 video |
9m
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Building and Leading Successful Teams
No one is an island, and this is particularly true in business. Success is dependent upon skilled, committed individuals coming together to achieve common goals. Building teams is essential to personal and organizational success. Whether your group is permanent or temporary, efficient and effective team leadership is essential. In this course, you'll learn methods for team building and team leadership. You'll also learn strategies for avoiding and mitigating team dysfunction and conflict. Finally, you'll learn how successfully leading teams is integral in the modern marketplace.
7 videos |
55m
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Leadership Insights on Building & Leading Teams
Building and leading an often disparate group of people is a formidable challenge, but done correctly, teams offer numerous advantages. Find out when and why you need teams, as well as how to develop teams that are highly effective.
26 videos |
1h 5m
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Optimizing Productivity in a Time of Hybrid Work
Most of us are still experimenting with both time and place of work. We’re flexing around the 9-to-5 notion of work and synchronicity, and we’re flexing around the multiple locations we may find ourselves working in. How do we maintain productivity while adapting to this new flexibility?
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59m
Managing the Post-Pandemic Workforce Empowerment vs. Oversight
As organizations prepare to lead their post-pandemic hybrid workforce, leaders face critical choices about how best to measure and monitor their workers’ performance. Should leadership use new measurement technologies to double down on greater oversight? Or are these capabilities better deployed to empower workers? Our research suggests a growing divide between organizations that view enhanced measurement as enhanced control versus those that see metrics as a source of enhanced engagement with their workers. In this on-demand webinar, Michael Schrage, visiting scholar at MIT Sloan’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, explores this global issue with David Kiron, editorial director of MIT SMR. Schrage and Kiron look at whether encouraging workers to opt into digital self-monitoring will lead them to see themselves in new ways.
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59m
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Five Ways to Motivate Your Team with Empathy and AuthorityThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses the five communication techniques you can use to build trust with, connect with, and motivate your employees during high-pressure times.
3m
By Nancy Duarte
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MIT Sloan Management Review on Building and Leading TeamsIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll discover the best ways to lead a team, and how managers identify the best individuals for specific positions--as well as the best methods for working with their groups.
1h 23m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review on Cross-Functional CollaborationIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how to improve your company’s cross-functional collaboration and how you can leverage common goals and strategies to enhance it.
26m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Four Principles to Ensure Hybrid Work Is Productive WorkThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how organizations have become more flexible about where and when employees work, but now must be more intentional about their choices and trade-offs.
9m
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on It’s Time to Tackle Your Team’s UndiscussablesThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how subjects that are consciously or unwittingly deemed out of bounds come in four varieties and make it almost impossible for teams to function.
16m
By Ginka Toegel, Jean-Louis Barsoux
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Reimagining the Office for Immensely Human InteractionsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how companies have a unique opportunity to rebuild meaningful connections when employees return to in-person work.
6m
By Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Maxim Sytch
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Fixing the Overload Problem at WorkIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how employers can address overload by making reasonable and feasible changes to how work is done.
14m
By Erin L. Kelly, Phyllis Moen
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Can We Really Test People for Potential?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses the need for a more nuanced approach to predicting job performance.
7m
By Reb Rebele
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Older and Wiser? How Management Style Varies With AgeThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how management styles differ with age.
15m
By Elena Tosca, Francesca Macchi, James Manktelow, Julian Birkinshaw , Vittorio D’Amato
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Solving the Problem of Siloed IT in OrganizationsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how business leaders must engage directly with technologists and ask the right questions in order to break down information barriers and drive transformation.
6m
By Douglas Squirrel, Jeffrey Fredrick
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Office Seating Arrangements Can Boost the Bottom LineThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how one CEO believes where people sit is key to a company’s success.
2m
By David Siegel
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Teams Still Need LeadersThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review provides an interview with Lindred (Lindy) Greer on team hierarchy.
5m
By Frieda Klotz, Lindred (Lindy) Greer
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Managers Can Best Support a Gig WorkforceThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how the rise of digital giants in the gig economy has brought new scrutiny to how companies should manage contingent workers.
2m
By Adam Roseman
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Teams Should Record Individual ExpectationsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review shows that a new approach to group decision-making can lead to better outcomes.
4m
By Ken Favaro, Manish Jhunjhunwala
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Art of Balancing Autonomy and ControlThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about what managers can learn from hackathon organizers about spurring innovation.
7m
By Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Lior Zalmanson, Sarah Lebovitz
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Contextualizing the Office: How and Where Work Gets DoneThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses what the office will be like post Covid-19.
3m
By Martha Bird
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Make Your CrowdThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review provides a framework for tailoring your crowdsourcing approach to the complexity of your innovation challenge.
4m
By Anita W. Woolley, Christoph Riedl, Gerald C. Kane, Victor P. Seidel
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on New Ways to Gauge Talent and PotentialThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how digital tools and methods can make the process of talent assessment easier and more precise.
7m
By Josh Bersin, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Creating Jobs and Workspaces That Energize PeopleThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how exposure to the natural world can boost employees’ cognitive, emotional, prosocial, and physical energy.
8m
By Anthony C. Klotz
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Get Things Done With Smaller TeamsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals ten ways smaller, more agile teams can achieve greater productivity for the organization.
6m
By Chris DeBrusk
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Office Space — Sized Extra LargeThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses returning to the office post-coronavirus.
2m
By Bruce Posner, Elizabeth Heichler
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Redesigning the Post-Pandemic WorkplaceThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how work as we know it is forever changed by COVID-19 and that now is the time for managers to envision the office that employees will return to.
5m
By Anh Phillips, Gerald C. Kane, Jonathan Copulsky, Rich Nanda
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Don’t Let ‘Busy’ Be Your StatusThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that as counterintuitive as it may seem when work feels overwhelming and time feels scarce, the best thing to do is often to simply log off and get away.
3m
By Ally MacDonald
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Eight Management Ideas to Embrace in the 2020sIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, experts reveal where leaders should focus their efforts in 2020 and beyond.
4m
By Ally MacDonald
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Prevent the Return to Offices From Being an Emotional Roller CoasterThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how leaders can take steps now to make employees feel supported and safe before they resume in-person work.
4m
By Liz Fosslien, Mollie West-Duffy
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The New Economic Benefits of Older WorkersThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how many countries with aging workers also have growing economic productivity and asks "What’s behind this counterintuitive finding?"
2m
By Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Don’t Let Metrics Critics Undermine Your BusinessIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, find out why the best strategies have the best metrics.
7m
By Michael Schrage
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Succeed Without Being the Smartest Person in the RoomThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how leaders need very different management approaches than were required when tasks — and their outcomes — could be more specifically set down.
5m
By Jeanne Ross
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Increase Collaborative Productivity in a PandemicThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how there is a major recession on the horizon and that executive focus will inevitably be on cutting costs and boosting productivity.
4m
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Fostering a Team-Oriented Culture at John HancockIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, John Hancock’s chief marketing officer describes how the legacy company is organizing for digital.
7m
By Barbara Goose
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Converting Email From Drain to GainThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review presents new research laying the groundwork for a team-based approach to managing email.
6m
By Alain Pinsonneault, Gerald C. Kane, Shamel Addas
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Your People Need Care, Not a Battle CryThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how we must change the language of war leaders are using to rally people in the fight against COVID-19.
3m
By Gianpiero Petriglieri
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Lead a Self-Managing TeamIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn the role an external leader or supervisor plays in directing autonomous groups within an organization.
16m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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Misplaced Talent: A Guide to Making Better People DecisionsDeliberately challenging practitioners to do more, this insightful discussion takes a hard look at the cluttered field of Talent Management, and offers a clear guide to making better people decisions in any organization.
3h 36m
By Joe Ungemah
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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 37m
By Derek Newberry, Madeline Boyer, Mario Moussa
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Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People FollowLoaded with novel research, inspiring stories, and actionable ideas, this book identifies three keys to being an effective leader, and uses firsthand accounts from highly successful leaders to show how each person’s unique talents can drive their success.
2h 30m
By Barry Conchie, Tom Rath
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableUsing fiction, this book exemplifies the dysfunctional philosophies teams and team members grapple with, and how to avoid them.
2h 20m
By Patrick Lencioni
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Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most FailTimes change, and so must teams. Designing and managing high-performance teams requires upgrading outdated beliefs and behaviors, and spurring a level of intensity and collaboration that lets them face down any challenge. This book will show you how.
4h 50m
By Robert Bruce Shaw
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Choosing to Change: An Alternative Understanding of Change ManagementUsing narrative accounts of how people interact with change and how they respond to the challenges presented by it, this book tackles how our expectations of the future will determine the choices made and is a vital tool for managers, practitioners and advanced management students.
3h 4m
By David Bentley
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Becoming A Coaching Leader: The Proven Strategy for Building a Team of ChampionsShowing you how to move beyond the theoretical to the very practical "how to" of coaching, this valuable book equips you with the skills, disciplines, and knowledge to turn your paycheck-driven teams into vibrant and successful growth cultures.
3h 20m
By Daniel Harkavy
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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge EconomyPresenting a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results, this book introduces a framework that shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn.
4h 59m
By Amy C. Edmondson
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A Welch Way Playbook on Managing Your TeamIn this Welch Way Playbook, we present the tools and proven techniques you can apply to build and lead the strongest team possible. This Playbook is your game plan for success.
1h 31m
By Strayer University
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Divide or Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict Into StrengthIn Divide or Conquer, author Diana McLain Smith offers a pragmatic outlook and the tools needed to help you get your relationships back on track when they go off course. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
5m
By Diana McLain Smith
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and WinAuthored by two retired Navy SEALs, Extreme Ownership presents a master course in leadership, demonstrating that an effective leader must take ownership of everything the team does and everything that happens to the team. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
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The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and WinIn The Dichotomy of Leadership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin illustrate the central role a leader plays in determining the accomplishment of any team. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
7m
By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
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