Course Summary
This course introduces the importance of team culture and how it can affect team productivity and outcomes. Students will learn how to cultivate a positive team culture and improve team dynamics.Key Learning Points
- Understand the impact of team culture on productivity and outcomes
- Identify and address common challenges in team dynamics
- Develop strategies for cultivating a positive team culture
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- USA: $84,000
- India: ₹10,00,000
- Spain: €38,000
- USA: $84,000
- India: ₹10,00,000
- Spain: €38,000
- USA: $66,000
- India: ₹9,00,000
- Spain: €35,000
- USA: $84,000
- India: ₹10,00,000
- Spain: €38,000
- USA: $66,000
- India: ₹9,00,000
- Spain: €35,000
- USA: $75,000
- India: ₹12,00,000
- Spain: €40,000
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Learning Outcomes
- Understand the importance of team culture
- Identify and address common challenges in team dynamics
- Develop strategies for cultivating a positive team culture
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- No prerequisites required
- Basic knowledge of team dynamics and collaboration
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Online self-paced course
- Video lectures
- Quizzes and assignments
Similar Courses
- Effective Communication in Teams
- Building High-Performing Teams
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Simon Sinek
- Amy Edmondson
Related Books
Description
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 unaware. It is often these seemingly unimportant aspects that have the greatest effect on the outcomes of group tasks. Your recognition of them enables you to form, join and lead teams more effectively. You also come to appreciate the role of ritual and symbols in the daily operation of teams, as well as in situations of change and crisis. Knowledge of the ideas and information in this class enables you to be a better team player and a more effective team leader.
Outline
- Course Overview
- Syllabus
- Meet Dr. Greg Urban
- Why Culture Matters in Organizations
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 What are Teams?
- 1.3 A Closer Look at Culture
- 1.4 Culture as Cultivation
- 1.5 Being Unaware of Culture
- 1.6 Expectations and Realities
- 1.7 The Little Cultural Things that Matter
- 1.8 Culture Shock
- 1.9 Habitus
- 1.10 Characteristic Ways of Speaking within the Team
- 1.11 What We Say Versus What We Do
- 1.12 Hiring and Cultural Fit
- 1.13 High Culture
- Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan
- Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms
- Why Culture Matters in Organizations
- Crossing Cultural Boundaries
- 2.1 Two Examples of Cultural Boundaries
- 2.2 Why Police Boundaries
- 2.3 Culture in Motion
- 2.4 Golden Arches East
- 2.5 The Art of Smiling
- 2.6 The Right to Fire
- 2.7 The Law of Jante
- 2.8 Cultural Relativity and Ethnocentrism
- 2.9 Avoid Stereotyping
- 2.10 A Checklist of Little Differences for Business
- 2.11 Gestures as Boundary Marker
- 2.12 Corporate Personhood
- Crossing Cultural Boundaries
- Cultural Relativity & Moral Judgments
- Corporations in Culture
- Team Rituals and Symbols
- 3.1 Burning the American Flag
- 3.2 Team Mascots
- 3.3 The Concept of the Symbol
- 3.4 Transference of Affective Quality
- 3.5 The Motivational Video
- 3.6 People as Symbols
- 3.7 The Pragmatics of Motivational Speech
- 3.8 Symbolic Meaning of Stories
- 3.9 Instrumental Symbols: The Gavel
- 3.10 Individual and Collective Rituals
- 3.11 Types of Rituals in Business
- 3.12 Initiation, Enhancement, and Group Worship
- Symbols
- Rituals & Culture
- Rituals & Symbols in Organizational Culture
- Effecting Cultural Continuity and Change
- 4.1 Culture in Time
- 4.2 The Inertial Forces
- 4.3 Habit and Drift
- 4.4 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 1
- 4.5 More on Reflective Culture or Metaculture as a Force
- 4.6 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 2
- 4.7 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 3
- 4.8 Secret to Successful Cultural Change
- 4.9 Introducing the Force of Interest
- 4.10 Interest at the Interface between Different Inertial Patterns
- 4.11 The Conditional Motion of Culture
- 4.12 Conclusion
- Rules, Ultimate Causes, and Cultural Motion by Greg Urban
- Effecting Cultural Continuity & Change