Building & Leading Teams
- 6 Courses | 5h 3m 46s
- 40 Books | 34h 54m
- 10 Audiobooks | 23h 39m 21s
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 |
47m
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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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MIT SMR: 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?
1 video |
59m
MIT SMR: 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.
1 video |
59m
MIT SMR: Managing Your Team's Child Care Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic left many parents without the critical infrastructure needed to manage their work and family demands. The physical and mental burden placed on parents forced many - particularly moms - to significantly reduce their work hours, seek alternative employment, or drop out of the workforce altogether. These impacts have severe ramifications for organizations and our overall economy. In this webinar, the speakers discuss findings from recent research efforts that highlight the challenges facing working parents and opportunities for employers to better support their workers, recasting child care as essential infrastructure. Join speakers Jamie Ladge (associate professor of management, Northeastern University) and Tim Allen (CEO, Care.com) and learn about: • New research findings from both the employer and worker perspective. • Ways organizations can amplify efforts to attract and retain working caregivers. • Creative solutions to solve the current working parent crisis.
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1h 1m
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 12 Essential Insights for Managing TeamsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review emphasis how good teams require good leaders who have vision and practiced skills. Leading effective teams today requires laying the groundwork for how team members and the wider organization will be successful.
3m
By Ally MacDonald
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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 How People Analytics Improves Employee PerformanceThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review analytics around human performance is increasingly of interest to organizations - here's how one company provides them.
10m
By Anh Nguyen Phillips, Ben Waber (Humanyze), interviewed by Gerald C. Kane
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Lead Effective Cross-Functional TeamsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review focuses on three central tasks can help leaders foster better collaboration with cross-functional teams.
2m
By Chad Dyar
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Do Founder CEOs Tune Out Their Teams?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review that founders need advice more than other managers do, but they are also more likely to ignore it.
6m
By Bradley Hendricks, Christopher Bingham, Travis Howell
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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 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 Imaginary Time Travel as a Leadership ToolThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review a leader who used imaginary time travel was back in the 1990s, when a colleague and I did an 18-month ethnography research project at IDEO.
4m
By Robert Sutton
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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
BOOK SUMMARY
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
BOOK SUMMARY
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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The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your PotentialThe 5 Levels of Leadership offers a unique perspective on the progressive nature of leadership, and offers advice on growing your influence as you climb up the leadership ladder. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
5m
By John C. Maxwell
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Control Function of ManagementThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review explains about management control fucntions.
22m
By Kenneth A. Merchan
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Who's in the Room? How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around ThemWho's in the Room provides a corrective view of the proper role of the SMT and a map of modern corporations' organizational changes and outcomes needed to compete in the 21st century marketplace. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m 9s
By Bob Frisch
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People FollowStrengths-Based Leadership proposes a new way of looking at the relationship between leadership and individual strengths. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m 53s
By Barry Conchie, Tom Rath
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
Companies Don't Succeed, People Do: 50 Ways to Motivate Your TeamThis audio edition will show you how to create a clear path to success with an efficient and collaborative team. Share your vision and engage with your team members to create an environment that promotes and promises success!
52m 31s
By Bob Nelson
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 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your TeamThis audio edition shares the vital principles of team building that are necessary for success in your business, family, church, or organization. Read by the author.
2h 55m 38s
By John C. Maxwell
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
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.
14m 48s
By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
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.
14m 40s
By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your PotentialThe 5 Levels of Leadership offers a unique perspective on the progressive nature of leadership, and offers advice on growing your influence as you climb up the leadership ladder. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
9m 19s
By John C. Maxwell
Audiobook
The Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next LevelThis audio edition provides concise explanations of proven leadership frameworks from Harvard Business Review contributors.
8h 55m 43s
By Brook Manville, Ron Ashkenas
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Leading Your Team
Great teams don't come together by accident. Successful leaders know that putting together an efficient and effective team requires planning, forethought, honest assessment, and a little trial and error. And once you've put the team together, then comes the work of coaching, motivating, and managing them. In this Leading Your Team Unit benchmark, you'll have the opportunity to see where your team building, and team leading skills currently stand and learn where you can further develop and refine your abilities to lead your team to success. 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.
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