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Level 7 Diploma in Business and Organisational Psychology

Anatomy of High-Performance Teams

BOP705 · Team Building — Week 4 of 16

CourseBOP705
Week4 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Anatomy of High-Performance Teams

  1. Shared mental models and compelling direction
  2. Psychological safety and collective efficacy
  3. Interdependence, complementary skills, and mutual accountability
  4. Performance metrics and agile communication routines
  5. Lecture 58: Building High-Performance Teams: The Rocket Model
  6. What Is Psychological Safety?
  7. Stanford Webinar: Building High-Performing Product Teams

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Evaluate the features of high-performance teams at an organisation

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate the features of high-performance teams at an organisation

Study materials

Videos

  • What Is Psychological Safety? · YouTube · Harvard Business Review · 8 min · for registered students
  • Stanford Webinar: Building High-Performing Product Teams · YouTube · Stanford Online · 61 min · for registered students
  • HR People Pod – Ep 33: Enabling high performance working: The organisation lens – with Matthew Syed · YouTube · CIPD · 24 min · for registered students
  • If Your Team Never Fails, It Isn’t Learning · YouTube · Harvard Business Review · 6 min · for registered students
  • Truth Telling Techniques for High-Performance Teams · YouTube · eCornell · 54 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 10: Understanding and Managing Work Teams · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 295–316 · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 9: Managing Groups and Teams · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 357–402 · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 15: Managing Teams · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 455–476 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Teams in Organisations
  • Week 2: Strategic Value and Systems of Team Working
  • Week 3: Theories of Team and Group Development
  • Week 4: Anatomy of High-Performance Teams
  • Week 5: Structured Management Team Development Frameworks
  • Week 6: Dysfunctions and Barriers in Team Building
  • Week 7: Organisational Demography and Team Composition
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Values, Attitudes, and Normative Team Dynamics
  • Week 10: Conflict Dynamics and Interventions
  • Week 11: Trust and Relational Architecture in Team Management
  • Week 12: Applying Team Building in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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