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Building Effective Teams

14 Courses
19 Hours
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Learn the essential skills and strategies needed to build, lead, and optimize high-performing teams. This path covers foundational team-building techniques, advanced strategies for fostering innovation and accountability, and practical approaches to enhancing team performance and culture.

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Foundations of Team Building

Start with the basics of creating and leading effective teams. This section covers the essential skills and strategies for establishing a solid team foundation, including team creation, role definition, and launching successful teams.

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Creating and Leading Effective Teams

  • by Jason Alba
  • 2h 12m
  • Apr 29, 2021
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Developing Teamwork Skills

  • by Emily Luijbregts
  • 47m
  • Jul 19, 2021
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Launching Successful Teams

  • by Shelley Benhoff
  • 2h 37m
  • Aug 10, 2022
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Establishing Goals, Roles, and Guidelines for a Team

  • by Alice Meredith
  • 1h 7m
  • Jun 18, 2021
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How to Hire the Right People

  • by Madecraft
  • 1h 13m
  • Apr 29, 2024
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The Successful Technical Interview for Interviewers

  • by Jason Alba
  • 1h 43m
  • Aug 01, 2017

Building Team Culture and Trust

Focus on developing a positive team culture and building trust within your team. Learn how to foster commitment, engagement, and empathy to create a cohesive and motivated team environment.

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Developing a Team and Its Culture

  • by Tony Curtis
  • 1h 17m
  • Dec 17, 2021
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Building Trust and Commitment on Your Team

  • by Dan Appleman
  • 1h 2m
  • Apr 02, 2018
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Build Trust and Increase Employee Engagement by Leading with Empathy

  • by Madecraft
  • 47m
  • May 28, 2024
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Building and Leading Teams that Keep Employees Happy

  • by Madecraft
  • 1h 7m
  • Apr 29, 2024
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A Leader's Guide to Overcoming Unconscious Bias

  • by Madecraft
  • 50m
  • Jul 15, 2024

Enhancing Team Performance and Innovation

Dive into advanced strategies for optimizing team performance and fostering innovation. This section covers practical approaches to distributing work, evaluating performance, and boosting creativity within your team.

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Prioritizing and Distributing Work in Teams: Get the Most Value by Doing the Work That Matters

  • by Alice Meredith
  • 57m
  • Jan 22, 2021
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Motivating and Optimizing Team Performance

  • by Jillian Kaplan
  • 1h 24m
  • Jul 21, 2021
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Boosting Innovation: How Leaders Can Create Innovative Teams

  • by Jason Alba
  • 1h 45m
  • Jun 11, 2019
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What You'll Learn
  • Effective team leadership
  • Developing and launching teams
  • Hiring and interviewing
  • Building team culture and trust
  • Enhancing team performance
Prerequisites
  • No prerequisites.
Related topics
  • leadership
  • management
  • teamwork
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Jason Alba
Jason Alba
Jason Alba has been a Pluralsight Author since 2012, specializing in soft skills and professional development. He started his IT career as an intern developing tools for a robust intranet. He transitioned to an IT manager at another company where his job included web development as well as other IT functions. After an acquisition Jason became VP and then general manager at a newly formed tech company. He founded and manages JibberJobber.com, a CRM for job seekers. Jason has authored three books....
Emily Luijbregts
Emily Luijbregts
Emily is an established Project Manager, Scrum Master and Coach. She's been working in Project Management for over 10 years and is passionate about sharing knowledge with the community and helping others grow and become more effective leaders and managers. She focuses on the 'people' in projects and helps individuals grow and develop their skills. She excels working in international environments and working virtually. Emily is an international speaker who loves connecting and sharing knowledge
Shelley Benhoff
Shelley Benhoff
Shelley has 20+ years of experience in IT as an Entrepreneur, Manager, Trainer, Docker Community Leader, and Sitecore MVP. She has a passion for tiaras, technology, gaming, and general nerdery. She loves to learn new things as well as mentor and teach others. She teaches leadership, communication, Docker, and Sitecore development. Shelley aims to provide her students with an immersive learning experience, not just a bunch of lectures and handouts. She has studied learning and instructional desig...
Alice Meredith
Alice Meredith
Alice is a culture strategist and has a deep-rooted passion for cultivating cultures of change and belonging. Alice has 30 years of senior leadership experience in Corporate America and recognized credentials as a Certified Sr. HR Professional (SPHR) and Change Management Professional (CCMP), Alice brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to each course as she seamlessly integrates cultural strategy into evolving work environments. Known for her innovative approach, Alice has pioneered multipl...
Madecraft
Madecraft
Madecraft shapes exceptional people through exceptional learning. Madecraft courses focus on actionable content to engage and inspire learners to unlock their potential. Focused on creating stylish and modern learning experience, Madecraft is ridding the world of boring online learning.
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis is a Technical Program Manager at Health Catalyst in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has been developing software professionally since 1995. Tony has developed primarily in object-oriented languages and spent the majority of his career in the medical industry. For the past few years he has been working with the .NET Framework, but more recently has transitioned to JavaScript and specifically AngularJS web development. He is passionate about unit testing, and software craftsmanship. Tony lov...
Dan Appleman
Dan Appleman
Dan Appleman is a well known author, software developer, and speaker. He is the author of numerous books, ebooks, and online courses on various topics (technology and other). His latest book is "Advanced Apex Programming" - advancedapex.com.
Jillian Kaplan
Jillian Kaplan
Jillian is a 20+ year technology industry veteran. She currently works at a Fortune 50 Enterprise, prior to that she spent 14 years at Verizon. She has worked in engineering, product management, project management, marketing operations and product marketing. Having worked in so many different roles, she had a unique end to end perspective from initial product development to bringing products to market. She is a strong believer in ‘Technology for Good’ and works to bring it to the forefront of al...

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