Create an Enviable Team Culture

Description

Every team has a culture, whether or not anyone is paying attention to it. This course defines team culture as the shared behaviors and beliefs that decide how work gets done, and shows you how to see yours clearly. You’ll learn the four most common culture types and the trade-offs of each, then how to assess your own culture as an impartial observer using culture walks and group interviews. The later lessons list the symptoms of a negative culture and give a four-step process for repairing one. The course ends with two lessons on building a positive culture, including one organized around people’s strengths.

Each lesson has a video and a reading, with flashcards and a checklist of symptoms you can score against your own team.

What you’ll be able to do

• Define team culture and tell a strong culture from a weak one
• Recognize the four common culture types, from adhocracy to market-driven, and the drawbacks of each
• Assess your team’s culture as an outsider would, watching for emotions and for what is missing
• Conduct a culture walk and group interviews to collect evidence about how your team works
• Spot the symptoms of a negative culture, from favoritism to high turnover
• Repair a negative culture in four steps, starting by identifying the problems with your team’s input
• Build a strengths-based culture by assigning work according to what each person does best

Who it’s for

Team managers and department heads who are responsible for how a group works together, and anyone who has inherited a team with problems.

What’s inside

7 lessons, self-paced:

1. What Is Team Culture and Why Does It Matter?
2. Types of Team Cultures
3. Assessing Your Team Culture
4. Transforming a Negative Team Culture
5. Building a Positive Team Culture
6. Creating a Strengths-Based Culture
7. Summary

What you get

• 365 days of access from the date of purchase
• A certificate of completion when you finish the course
• Your place is saved, so you can stop and come back whenever you like
• Works on a computer, tablet or phone

You can also get this course, and every other course in the library, with All Access for $99.99 a year.