Expert Insights on Leading Teams

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Even the most independent person doesn't work in a bubble. Teams are where the magic happens, when individuals come together as a high-performing group to accomplish shared goals. Get your team to the next level!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Acquire insights on the importance of cohesion and trust in building a great team.
    Acquire insights on how leaders can build high performance teams.
    Acquire insights on relation between swift-forming expert teams and high-performance teams.
    Acquire insights on how leaders can take their team to the next level.
    Acquire insights on the importance of hunting and addressing "pink elephants" in a high performance team.
    Acquire insights on how teams can become more effective by applying essentialism in the workplace.
    Acquire insights on how leaders can equip teams to focus externally in an organization.
    Acquire insights on how leaders can set expectations to manage teams better.
    Acquire insights on how to lead your team through disruptive innovations.
    Acquire insights on how leaders can utilize each individual's native genius to improve team performance.
    Acquire insights on how leaders can handle a difficult team member.
    Acquire insights on how to be an effective team leader without exerting dominance.
    Acquire insights on building a strong, cohesive team.
    Acquire insights on how to build great teams where members care for each other using the acronym care.
    Acquire insights on creating an environment of mutual respect within a team.
    Acquire insights on the power of believing and recognizing your reasons to believe as a leader.
    Acquire insights on the importance of trust in building great teams.
    Acquire insights on how leaders can benefit from having an eagle-eye view of their team.
    Acquire insights on some characteristics and behaviors of effective team leaders.
    Acquire insights on what are the five root causes of team dysfunction.
    Acquire insights on some of the characteristics for being a successful team leader.
    Acquire insights on managing teams and leading them effectively.
  • Acquire insights on how to use assumptions to your advantage and stick to your mantra.
    Acquire insights on the importance of trust and commitment in building a great team.
    Acquire insights on the importance of adapting your leadership style as per each team member.
    Acquire insights on the advantage of having the right talent in the right position to make a great team.
    Acquire insights on how leaders can utilize their core values to attract others to their cause.
    Acquire insights on a seven-step process for team building.
    Acquire insights on the importance of understanding the top priority team for a leader.
    Acquire insights on the importance of being curious when encountering difficulties as a team leader.
    Acquire insights on the importance of external activities in making a team more effective.
    Acquire insights on building a coaching culture inside teams.
    Acquire insights on understanding that innovation teams get their strength from the diversity, dedication, and energy of their members.
    Acquire insights on understanding that the iterative process of the agile platform is no longer unique to software teams. transform your team by using these agile characteristics.
    Acquire insights on understanding that reflection is an important activity that helps teams and individuals become more effective.
    Acquire insights on how leaders can insire their team with the right essentials and vision.
    Acquire insights to understand that your team needs you to set ground rules for how an assigned job is to be accomplished.
    Acquire insights on how letting your team know who is responsible for what and by when gives your team confidence and the ability to collaborate on the vision.
    Acquire insights on how the success strategy of the military’s after-action review (aar) saves your organization time and money.
    Acquire insights on leaders who participate in self-reliant crucibles are better prepared to face the challenges and obstacles that come teamwork.
    Acquire insights on the importance of a leader to act as a role model.
    Acquire insights on understanding that when you celebrate small wins, big things transpire.
    Acquire insights on using intentional leadership to inspire and connect with your people.
    Acquire insights on understanding that to foster innovation in your teams, you need to create psychological safety.

IN THIS COURSE

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    1.  Building a Great Team: Start with Cohesion and Trust
    1m 52s
    Teams that have cohesion and trust can solve almost any task. FREE ACCESS
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    2.  Creating High Performance Teams
    2m 15s
    High performing teams need a well defined; shared goal and feedback with respect to that goal. Teams also need people with the right skills; who are challenged at the right level to produce flow. Culturally diverse teams are especially critical to creative thinking. FREE ACCESS
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    3.  Keys to High-Performing Teams
    1m 48s
    Swift-forming expert teams have the characteristics to be high-performing. FREE ACCESS
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    4.  Taking Your Team to the Next Level
    3m 23s
    Taking your team to the next level begins with viewing employees as a cohesive; integrated group. FREE ACCESS
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    5.  The Hunt for Pink Elephants
    3m 35s
    A pink elephant is an issue that blocks team progress. Examples include members who don’t get along privately; reluctance to challenge a leader because they are emotionally attached to an idea; and failure to confront a member who acts up negatively with bad behaviors in public. On high performance team; pink elephants are named and addressed. Clarify the issue; prioritize it; and take action. FREE ACCESS
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    6.  Applying Essentialism to a Team
    2m 17s
    Ask the team; what is the most important thing we should be working on now? The head of a highly successful high school rugby team uses the acronym WIN: What’s Important Now? Focus on doing the right things at the right time for the right reasons. FREE ACCESS
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    7.  Enabling your Team to be More Externally Focused
    4m 5s
    More effective teams will focus internally as well as externally; to learn expectations; align their work vertically with the hierarchy; and coordinate their work with other teams and groups. FREE ACCESS
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    8.  Managing Teams Means Managing Emotions and Expectations
    2m 32s
    Setting the right expectations enables leaders to manage the emotions that stop teams from moving forward. FREE ACCESS
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    9.  How to Lead Your Team Through Disruptive Innovations
    3m 16s
    Overcoming disruptive innovation requires leaders to define reality; instill hope; and encourage exploration. FREE ACCESS
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    10.  Native Genius Increases Team Performance
    4m 24s
    To increase team performance; make the most of each person's native genius. FREE ACCESS
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    11.  Handling a Team Player Who Won’t Play Along
    3m 29s
    The key to dealing with difficult people is to build a bigger relationship with them. FREE ACCESS
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    12.  Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
    2m 37s
    The best leaders work with people, not over them or around them. FREE ACCESS
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    13.  Team Up
    2m 29s
    A group of individuals assigned to work together does not a team make. Here's what you need to build a cohesive, functioning team. FREE ACCESS
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    14.  Team Framework
    2m 40s
    Building teams takes great CARE, and teams that care are unstoppable. FREE ACCESS
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    15.  The Three Rs of Respect
    2m 36s
    Creating an environment of contribution requires mutual respect. Apply the three Rs of respect to create a powerful team of contributors. FREE ACCESS
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    16.  Recognize Your Reason to Believe
    3m 19s
    To accomplish what you never thought possible, you have to find your reason to believe. FREE ACCESS
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    17.  Connect to Build Trust
    3m 38s
    Building a team requires trust, and trust is possible only when people genuinely connect with each other. FREE ACCESS
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    18.  Leading from the Balcony
    2m 24s
    A leader should have an eagle-eye view of a team that encompasses more than what each individual sees. FREE ACCESS
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    19.  Behaviors of Effective Team Leaders
    4m 39s
    Team leaders that build high-performing teams are both candid and receptive. They tell others what they need to hear, and they want to know the truth about themselves. FREE ACCESS
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    20.  The Five Root Causes of Team Dysfunction
    2m 57s
    Team dysfunction starts with a lack of trust. The absence of trust leads to fear of conflict; which leads to lack of commitment; which leads to lack of accountability; which leads to lack of attention to results. FREE ACCESS
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    21.  Succeeding as a Team Leader
    3m 2s
    Successful team leaders demonstrate vulnerability; encourage conflict; love clarity; hold people accountable; and focus on results; not their ego or status. FREE ACCESS
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    22.  Building and Leading Effective Teams
    2m 31s
    Team leaders need to manage both the team and the context surrounding the team. FREE ACCESS
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    23.  Smash the Silos: Use Assumptions to Your Advantage
    3m 26s
    Noah Blumenthal shares a story about finding and sticking to your mantra. FREE ACCESS
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    24.  Building A Team Through Trust
    4m 43s
    Peter Leahy believes that teamwork is built on a common commitment towards a particular aim. FREE ACCESS
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    25.  Adapt Your Leadership Style For Each Individual
    5m 20s
    Leaders are only as successful as their teams want them to be. David Brandon shows you how to prosper by treating every team member as an individual. FREE ACCESS
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    26.  Building a Great Team
    3m 21s
    The best leadership advice Nicole Piasecki ever received was to get the best talent in the right seat on the bus (“Good to Great;” by Jim Collins). FREE ACCESS
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    27.  The "Values" Value Proposition
    3m 46s
    We can’t reinvent ourselves; but we can get closer to our core values and attract people who share those values. FREE ACCESS
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    28.  Team Building Without Time Wasting
    3m 12s
    Marshall Goldsmith describes a seven-step process. FREE ACCESS
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    29.  Executives Must Understand Their #1 Team
    1m 16s
    As a leader you are on a leadership team; as well as the leader of your own team. FREE ACCESS
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    30.  Don't Be Frustrated, Be Curious
    2m 2s
    When the group is not going where you want it to go; don’t get frustrated. Be curious. Ask why. Sometimes you need to tell people what to do; but most of the time you will be more effective asking questions and learning. The group has more experience than you do. FREE ACCESS
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    31.  What Makes an Effective Team?
    3m 17s
    To Deborah Ancona; effective teams are more than clear goals; clear roles; good internal processes; etc. which are more internally focused activities. It's also comprised of external activity--what team members do across their boundaries within the team. FREE ACCESS
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    32.  Building a Coaching Culture Inside Teams
    2m 43s
    A high-performing team is reliant on effective coaching, a process that involves greater complexity than coaching individuals. FREE ACCESS
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    33.  Create and Support Teams
    3m 11s
    Innovation teams get their strength from the diversity, dedication, and energy of their members. FREE ACCESS
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    34.  Create an Agile Culture
    1m 47s
    The iterative process of the agile platform is no longer unique to software teams. Transform your team by using these agile characteristics. FREE ACCESS
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    35.  Reflecting to Improve Effectiveness
    1m 56s
    Reflection is an important activity that helps teams and individuals become more effective. FREE ACCESS
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    36.  Nail the Where and the Why
    3m 38s
    With the right essentials and vision, leaders can inspire their teams to accomplish tasks they never dreamed possible. FREE ACCESS
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    37.  Nail the How
    2m 46s
    To do its job, your team needs you to set ground rules for how that job is to be accomplished. FREE ACCESS
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    38.  Who Does What by When
    2m 31s
    Letting your team know who is responsible for what and by when gives your team confidence and the ability to collaborate on the vision. FREE ACCESS
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    39.  After-Action Reviews
    2m 27s
    Copy the success strategy of the military’s after-action review (AAR) to save your organization time and money. FREE ACCESS
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    40.  Self-Reliant Leadership Crucibles
    1m 55s
    Leaders who participate in self-reliant crucibles are better prepared to face the challenges and obstacles that come teamwork. FREE ACCESS
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    41.  Leading by Example: The Commander’s Duty
    3m 54s
    Leadership comes with the heavy responsibility to lead by example, and as this story about a Navy commander shows, not acting as a role model can have damaging consequences. FREE ACCESS
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    42.  The Big Power of Small Wins
    3m 2s
    When you celebrate small wins, big things transpire: successful execution of vision, high morale, and heightened employee engagement and commitment. FREE ACCESS
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    43.  Inspire and Connect to Your People with Intentional Leadership
    2m 35s
    Employees today are seeking a deep connection to the work they do. Money is important, but millennials in particular are looking for a purpose. It is your job as manager to help your people connect the work they do with the overall purpose of your firm, as well as their personal interests. FREE ACCESS
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    44.  Create Psychological Safety to Foster Innovation in your Teams
    2m 56s
    Having an experienced, highly-educated team isn’t always a guarantee of success. For teams to be innovative and successful, they need to feel safe speaking up. They need to experience psychological safety. FREE ACCESS

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