Overview
As a manager, you're not just the “person in charge.” It’s your responsibility to help your team realise their potential. Solid team management brings people together to maximise their strengths, overcome differences, and achieve shared goals. By doing so, you improve performance, productivity, and employee satisfaction. A well-managed team makes everyone - including you - look better.
In this self-paced module within the Leadership Lab series, you’ll learn tips to build an effective team, communicate better, and resolve common problems that naturally arise in a diverse group of people with their own interests.
Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this module, participants should be able to:
- Describe the core principles and functions of effective team management, including setting direction, organising work, facilitating communication, and motivating others.
- Identify the key characteristics of effective teams and apply strategies to build trust, shared goals, accountability, and psychological safety within their workplace.
- Use purposeful communication strategies to align, inform, support, motivate, and develop team members across a range of professional contexts.
- Recognise common team challenges (e.g. trust, communication breakdowns, conflict, and misalignment) and apply practical techniques to address them constructively.
- Reflect on your own team management or collaboration practices and identify actionable steps to improve team effectiveness, engagement, and outcomes.
This learning module will take approximately 1 hour to complete.
Who is this for?
This course is designed for managers, team leaders, and aspiring leaders who want to enhance their team management skills. It’s ideal for anyone responsible for guiding teams, improving collaboration, and fostering engagement, trust, and high performance.
Author
This course was developed by Articulate.
Additional course features
Want to discuss the topic with your colleagues? Reflective and discussion-based questions have been embedded to guide team conversations or personal reflection.
Pricing
Members: $19
Non practicing members: $12
Student members: $8
Non-members: $28