Culture-Driven Team Building

Master strategies and tools that will enable you to more effectively form, join, and lead teams

About This Specialization

Master the strategies and tools that enable you to form, join and lead teams more effectively. In this four-course specialization, you learn how to: · Recognize aspects of team culture · Draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams · Handle conflict · Establish common ground rules · Maximize team performance · Create a team culture of continuous learning The program culminates in a capstone project in which you apply the skills you learned. You observe, diagnose and make recommendations to solve a team culture problem in a real-world case provided by N2Growth, a global consultancy focused on cultural transformation and leadership development.

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Projects Overview

Students will analyze a real world case provided by N2Growth, a global firm that helps clients create a culture of leadership through practice areas like strategy, cultural transformation, and organizational design. Based on the N2Growth case, students will be expected to identify and diagnose organizational issues, select a senior leader, and make recommendations in a culminating PowerPoint or Prezi presentation.

Courses

Beginner Specialization.: No prior experience required.

COURSE 1
The Power of Team Culture
Current session: Jul 17 — Aug 28.
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
Behind the success and failure of teams lies team culture. But what exactly is culture? How and why does it contribute to success and failure? In this course, you learn how to recognize aspects of team culture of which most people are typically unaware. It is often these seemingly unimportant aspects that have the greatest effect on the outcomes of group tasks. Your recognition of them enables you to form, join and lead teams more effectively. You also come to appreciate the role of ritual and symbols in the daily operation of teams, as well as in situations of change and crisis. Knowledge of the ideas and information in this class enables you to be a better team player and a more effective team leader.
COURSE 2
Building High-Performing Teams
Current session: Jul 17 — Aug 28.
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers miscommunicate, and groups struggle to adapt to changes in the market or their organizations. When teams lack self-awareness about these challenges, performance suffers. Based on years of team culture research and consulting experience, this course helps you understand the problems that hurt productivity, and gives you tools for creating positive change. This course also guides you through creating the ground rules and structure needed to set your team up for success. You gain the skills to diagnose issues such as conflicts, groupthink and lack of commitment in your team before they get out of control. The course offers frameworks to adjust team behaviors and get the best performance out of your people. You also understand frequent stumbling blocks for common team types, such as startups and virtual teams, and learn solutions tailored to each one.
COURSE 3
Optimizing Diversity on Teams
Current session: Jul 17 — Aug 21.
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
By drawing on social science perspectives, this course enables you to learn what diversity is, and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation and creativity. You also learn how to draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams, handle conflict and establish common ground rules through real-world cases and peer-to-peer discussions. In addition, you discover how to overcome common biases faced in diverse teams. Systems of power, reward and rhetoric are discussed to help you create prosperous teams where differences flourish.
COURSE 4
Creating a Team Culture of Continuous Learning
Current session: Jul 17 — Aug 21.
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
There is mounting concern that organizational groups and teams often fail to learn from their past experiences. It’s pertinent to address this issue as groups and teams are often the main ways that work gets done in organizations. In this course, we examine the main reasons that groups and teams are often ineffective, which include: • The lack of organizational structures and support for teams and groups • The lack of understanding and emphasis on learning • Misaligned reward structures So, what can be done to create an enabling learning culture in teams? This course emphasizes practical and impactful ways to begin to address this state of affairs. Through the use of stories, scenarios with actors simulating different team issues, examples and dialogue, you learn how to: • Understand teams in their larger organizational context • Diagnose the learning strengths and barriers to learning on teams • Identify ways to develop a team and group that continually learns and impacts the larger organization positively • Create an organizational environment that encourages learning and innovation
COURSE 5
Culture-Driven Team Building Capstone
Upcoming session: Sep 25 — Oct 30.
Subtitles
English
About the Capstone Project
In this capstone project class, you analyze a real-world case provided by N2Growth, a global firm that helps clients create a culture of leadership through practice areas like strategy, cultural transformation and organizational design. Based on the N2Growth case, you are expected to identify and diagnose organizational issues, select a senior leader and make recommendations in a culminating PowerPoint or Prezi presentation.

Creators

The University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) has been one of the world’s great homes for the study of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. It is the intellectual epicenter of the renowned research-intensive university.
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn) is a private university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A member of the Ivy League, Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and considers itself to be the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.

Dr. Aviva Legatt
Affiliated Faculty
Alan Barstow, Ph.D.
Director and Senior Scholar
Greg Urban, Ph.D.
Professor
Dana Kaminstein, Ph.D.
Affiliated Faculty
Amrita V. Subramanian
Executive Coach & Senior Consultant, Doctoral candidate (Ph.D. 2019)
Ramya Kumar, MSOD, PGDHRM, SHRM-SCP
Senior Consultant - Organizational Learning, Development & Change
Derek Newberry, Ph.D.
Lecturer

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