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High Performance Team Leadership For Modern Teams Specialization

PracticalGrowth

High Performance Team Leadership For Modern Teams Specialization

High Performance Management For Modern Teams.

Lead modern teams with practical systems for execution, coaching, and retention

Evan Kimbrell

Instructor: Evan Kimbrell

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design team operating systems with clear outcomes, metrics, roles, and ownership

  • Run meetings that drive decisions and follow through using agendas, facilitation, and decision logs

  • Coach and retain talent with clear standards, feedback, delegation, morale rituals, and stay interviews

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March 2026

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Specialization - 5 course series

What you'll learn

  • Define team purpose, outcomes, and success metrics that align work to real impact.

  • Build metrics trees and assign ownership to track what matters and close gaps fast.

  • Clarify roles, handoffs, and decision rights using RACI/DACI, DoR/DoD, and SOPs

What you'll learn

  • Decide when to meet vs async, and write purpose + outcomes that make meetings worth the time.

  • Design agendas, pre-reads, roles, and cadence to run shorter meetings with clear decisions and action items

  • Facilitate inclusively in hybrid/remote settings using timeboxing, WIP limits, and RAPID decision roles

What you'll learn

  • Diagnose morale drivers and spot early warning signs (safety, trust, fairness, clarity) before issues escalate.

  • Build belonging with rituals and recognition that lands—fair, specific, and effective in hybrid/remote teams.

  • Redesign work for energy: job crafting, autonomy guardrails, and sustainable stretch assignments without burnout.

What you'll learn

  • Spot early attrition risk using behavioral signals, context clues, and lightweight team-health metrics.

  • Design sustainable workload and remove friction with practical manager moves (WIP limits, rotation, simplification).

  • Build career momentum with opportunities, sponsorship, and stay interviews—then turn insights into a retention playbook.

What you'll learn

  • Turn vague expectations into clear, observable performance standards and simple scorecards

  • Run coaching conversations using SBI/AID + feed-forward to drive behavior change.

  • Use delegation, IDPs, and mini-rubrics to build skills—and manage highs, medians, and lows fairly.

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Evan Kimbrell
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