Key Principles of Effective Team Leadership
Master essential leadership skills to build, manage, and inspire high-performing teams.
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Key Principles of Effective Team Leadership
Develop leadership skills to build and manage high-performing teams
Effective leadership is essential for building and managing high-performing teams. On this course, you’ll explore proven leadership strategies to improve team performance, communication, and motivation.
Through practical techniques and real-world examples, you’ll gain leadership skills that support successful team management in any workplace, and learn how to build a positive team culture, set clear goals, managing performance challenges with confidence.
Build high-performing teams with the right leadership strategies
Discover how to hire the right people, establish clear roles, and foster workplace collaboration.
You’ll explore onboarding best practices, goal setting, and time management strategies that support productivity and team success.
Improve communication and employee engagement
Learn effective communication techniques, including active listening, coaching, and delivering constructive feedback.
You’ll explore motivation strategies that enhance employee engagement and drive team performance.
Tackle leadership challenges with confidence
Gain insights into resolving workplace conflicts, addressing underperformance, and adapting your leadership style.
Through case studies, you’ll develop practical problem-solving skills and learn how to manage real-world leadership challenges effectively.
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Syllabus
Week 1
Building and Understanding Your Team
Introduction to Team Management
Explore the importance of effective team management in today's workplace.
Building High-Performing Teams
Learn how to select the right team members, define roles, and onboard effectively, ensuring a diverse and high-performing team.
Effective Communication within Teams
Understand the importance of communication, learn active listening techniques, and create simple rules for transparency and collaboration.
Week 2
Performance, Adaptability, and Growth
Motivating and Engaging Team Members
Discover strategies to motivate individuals and teams, enhance engagement, and recognise achievements to boost morale and productivity.
Team Performance Evaluation and Feedback
Set performance goals, measure success, and develop improvement plans to guide individual and team growth through effective evaluations.
Mini-Cases, Examples & Quizzes
Apply your knowledge with real-life scenarios and interactive quizzes that reinforce key concepts and strategies learned throughout the course.
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Attract and hire A-Team players.
- Get to know your team.
- Support each other’s performance.
- Challenge each other to greater performance.
- Thrive in the good times and be agile in the tough ones.
- Dealing with poor performers.
Who is the course for?
This course is ideal for team leaders, project managers, entrepreneurs, and professionals looking to enhance leadership skills, improve employee engagement, and manage high-performing teams more effectively.
Who will you learn with?
Who developed the course?
Starweaver
Starweaver is a next generation platform that engages your workforce as no other. Combining business and technical skills, Starweaver provides real-time skill building that is in line with your business objectives and strategies, and in your associates day to day tasks and jobs.
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Choose the best way to learn for you!
Subscribe & save
$244.99 for a whole year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$54/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
Start learning today
Free
Try this course - with limits
- Limited to 2 weeks
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- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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