Culture-Driven Team Building

Master strategies and tools that will enable you to more effectively form, join, and lead teams

About This Specialization

Master the strategies and tools that enable you to form, join and lead teams more effectively. In this five-course specialization, you learn how to: · Recognize aspects of team culture · Draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams · Handle conflict · Establish common ground rules · Maximize team performance · Create a team culture of continuous learning The program culminates in a capstone project in which you apply the skills you learned. You observe, diagnose and make recommendations to solve a team culture problem in a real-world case provided by N2Growth, a global consultancy focused on cultural transformation and leadership development.

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5 courses

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Projects

Designed to help you practice and apply the skills you learn.

Certificates

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Projects Overview

Students will analyze a real world case provided by N2Growth, a global firm that helps clients create a culture of leadership through practice areas like strategy, cultural transformation, and organizational design. Based on the N2Growth case, students will be expected to identify and diagnose organizational issues, select a senior leader, and make recommendations in a culminating PowerPoint or Prezi presentation.

Courses

Beginner Specialization.: No prior experience required.

COURSE 1
The Power of Team Culture
Current session: Oct 23
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
Behind the success and failure of teams lies team culture. But what exactly is culture? How and why does it contribute to success and failure? In this course, you learn how to recognize aspects of team culture of which most people are typically unawar
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COURSE 2
Building High-Performing Teams
Upcoming session: Oct 30
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers miscommunicate, and groups struggle to adapt to changes in the market or their organizations. When teams lack self-awareness about these challenges, per
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COURSE 3
Optimizing Diversity on Teams
Current session: Oct 23
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
By drawing on social science perspectives, this course enables you to learn what diversity is, and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation and creativity. You also learn how to draw out the collective wisdom of divers
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COURSE 4
Creating a Team Culture of Continuous Learning
Upcoming session: Oct 30
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
There is mounting concern that organizational groups and teams often fail to learn from their past experiences. It’s pertinent to address this issue as groups and teams are often the main ways that work gets done in organizations. In this course, we
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COURSE 5
Culture-Driven Team Building Capstone
Current session: Oct 23
Subtitles
English
About the Capstone Project
In this capstone project class, you analyze a real-world case provided by N2Growth, a global firm that helps clients create a culture of leadership through practice areas like strategy, cultural transformation and organizational design. Based on the
You can choose to take this course only. Learn more.

Creators

The University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) has been one of the world’s great homes for the study of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. It is the intellectual epicenter of the renowned research-intensive university.
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn) is a private university, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A member of the Ivy League, Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and considers itself to be the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate studies.

Dr. Aviva Legatt
Affiliated Faculty
Alan Barstow, Ph.D.
Director and Senior Scholar
Greg Urban, Ph.D.
Professor
Dana Kaminstein, Ph.D.
Affiliated Faculty
Amrita V. Subramanian
Executive Coach & Senior Consultant, Doctoral candidate (Ph.D. 2019)
Ramya Kumar, MSOD, PGDHRM, SHRM-SCP
Senior Consultant - Organizational Learning, Development & Change
Derek Newberry, Ph.D.
Lecturer