This week’s topics
High-Performance Teams and Models
- Attributes of high-performance teams
- Katzenbach and Smith's team basics model
- Hackman's enabling conditions for team success
- Establishing psychological safety and mutual accountability
- Leading Strategy Paper Series: Katzenbach and Smith (2005) "The Discipline of Teams"
- What Is Psychological Safety?
- Lecture 58: Building High-Performance Teams: The Rocket Model
What you will be able to do
- 2.2 Explain what is meant by the term ‘high performance team.’
- 2.3 Compare different team development models.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain what is meant by the term ‘high performance team.’
Study materials
Videos
- Leading Strategy Paper Series: Katzenbach and Smith (2005) "The Discipline of Teams" · YouTube · Glenn Parry · 17 min · for registered students
- What Is Psychological Safety? · YouTube · Harvard Business Review · 8 min · for registered students
- What is The Tuckman Model - Tuckman Team Development Model? · YouTube · Management Courses - Mike Clayton · 11 min · for registered students
- If Your Team Never Fails, It Isn’t Learning · YouTube · Harvard Business Review · 6 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Organizational Behavior, ch. 9: Managing Groups and Teams · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 357–402 · for registered students
- Principles of Management, ch. 13: Managing Groups and Teams · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 496–530 · for registered students
- Organizational Behavior, ch. 10: Understanding and Managing Work Teams · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 295–316 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
