Understand what dynamic teaming is and its importance
Build skills to create psychological safety and foster inclusion
Recognize and address unconscious, implicit, and affinity bias
Improve team decision-making and communication through tested tools
Develop a proactive approach to failure and learn from mistakes
Who Will Benefit
Manage team dynamics through psychological safety, inclusion, team decision-making, and intelligent failure.
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Understand psychological safety’s importance in the workplace and foster a leadership style that promotes candor, trust, and interpersonal risk-taking. Learn how to assemble a team with the diversity and expertise to solve problems, build buy-in for cultural change, and overcome resistance.
Highlights
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Breakthrough Innovation Success
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Input Value
Concepts
Welcome to Dynamic Teaming
Psychological Safety
Confronting Obstacles to Psychological Safety
Featured Exercises
Identify where your organization falls on the psychological safety scale
Apply tools to track team progress and recognize success measures
Reflect on the difference between traditional and modern management in a volatile, uncertain world
Module 2
Inclusion
6-7 Hours
Explore the relationship between diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety and practice inclusive teaming practices to encourage high performance. Recognize the challenges of altering deeply ingrained behaviors and evaluate how individuals’ backgrounds influence their thinking and interactions.
Highlights
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Understanding Inclusion
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Benefits of Diverse Teams
Concepts
Psychological Safety and Inclusion
Developing Inclusive Leadership Skills
Building an Inclusive Culture
Featured Exercises
Explore the dimensions of difference that exist within your team
Reflect on how biases can affect inclusion
Assess your team's level of inclusion
Module 3
Tools for Teaming
6-7 Hours
Discover the role of structured decision-making processes in solving complex business problems and cultivate teaming tools to foster high-quality conversations.
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Building a Team
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Building Trust
Concepts
Leading Effective Teams
Global Dynamic Teaming in a VUCA World
Decision-Making Tools at Duckbill and Zola
Self-Organizing, Lean, Autonomous, and Multidisciplinary Teams (SLAM)
Featured Exercises
Assess the level of risk your team is facing
Determine why team members draw different conclusions from the same data
Design a decision-making process specific to your team's needs
Module 4
Failing Well
6-7 Hours
Recognize mistakes’ significance and the value of learning from them and differentiate between basic, complex, and intelligent failure.
Highlights
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Intelligent Failure
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Experimentation and Iteration
Concepts
Failing Well
Intelligent Failure
Basic Failure and Blameless Reporting
Complex Failure
The Science of Failing Well
Featured Exercises
Identify a failure within your organization and diagnose its cause
Reflect on the difference between acceptable and unacceptable failure
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Real-World Connections
Get social by collaborating and networking with a global community of peers before, during, and after the course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program are added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities.
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See how the HBS Online course platform engages you in social learning. You exchange ideas, offer input, and seek out viewpoints from a community of learners gathered from around the globe. In the process, you learn from each other’s experiences and perspectives, and leave the program with a broader outlook on the world.
Real-World Cases
Immerse yourself in real-world, case-based examples brought to life by experts who’ve built and led dynamic teams at world-class organizations like PepsiCo, Duckbill Technologies, SV Health Investors, SEB, Zola, Inc., and The Vernā Myers Company.
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HBS Online courses allow you to immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll engage in a new activity every three to five minutes and apply your knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises designed to accelerate and reinforce your learning.
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