Team Leader Course Content
Thank you for joining us for the final webinar in the CrossLead: Team Leader program!
We appreciate everyone’s participation, and hope you all learned techniques and tactics to leverage with your teams. Please join us in our CrossLead Community on LinkedIn by clicking here to request to join. We will approve requests as quickly as possible.
The final step in the program is to attend a 1:1 session with our team. We will coordinate with you individually via email.
CrossLead Foundations
APRIL 13 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM
This introductory module describes the practical experience of transforming a large, bureaucratic organization into an adaptable network of high-performing teams. This segment will frame the limitations of command-and-control leadership styles and offer a compelling case for embracing servant leadership and agile ways of working.
High Performing Teams
APRIL 20 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM
With legacy ways of working, management’s role was well-understood: plan, direct, evaluate, and adjust. Agile ways of working require leaders to take on a different role, one whose primary function is to serve the team, remove obstacles, and coach team members to achieve optimal performance. This module will provide leadership behaviors and team processes that facilitate a culture of continuous improvement on a self-organized team.
Team Planning and Prioritization
APRIL 27 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM
In today’s complex environment, teams juggle multiple projects with different sets of stakeholders and time horizons for completion. Effective planning is critical to achieving goals and managing stakeholder expectations. This module focuses on designing sustainable team planning and prioritization processes that enable the team to achieve long-term and short-term goals while managing time effectively.
Trust
MAY 4 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Leaders are responsible for building the supportive environment their teams need to thrive and addressing competency gaps if they arise. This module addresses the team leader’s role in creating a trusting team environment and team practices that engender long-term trust and psychological safety.
Leading Through Influence
MAY 11 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Exceptional performance in a complex organizational ecosystem hinges on the team’s ability to manage dependencies on other teams in the organization successfully. While team leaders have formal authority over their teams, their success often requires negotiating with peers and superiors over whom they have no authority. The focus of this module is building the skills to lead through influence.