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Teamwork: Build and Sustain High-Performing Teams

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Creo Incubator

Teamwork: Build and Sustain High-Performing Teams

Martine Abboud

Instructor: Martine Abboud

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 week to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Identify how team purpose, structure, roles, and routines shape performance, alignment, and collective accountability.

  • Analyse hidden influence, informal decision-making, cultural dynamics, and barriers that affect collaboration inside teams.

  • Apply practical frameworks to improve role clarity, team resilience, adaptive capacity, and future-ready teamwork.

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July 2026

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Taught in English

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There are 3 modules in this course

This module introduces teams as living systems shaped by purpose, structure, roles, routines, and institutional memory. Learners will explore how teams can drift away from their original purpose, become dependent on outdated procedures, or continue operating through legacy structures that no longer create value. The module also examines fragmented teams, shadow teams, symbolic stability, and how roles can outlive their relevance.

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This module focuses on what makes teams effective over time. Learners will examine strategic alignment, collective accountability, sustainable motivation, cognitive and cultural diversity, adaptive capacity, and balanced leadership. The module also explores the informal influence systems that shape team behaviour, including signalling, hidden influence networks, parallel circles of influence, and unwritten protocols that affect decision-making and collaboration.

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This module examines why teams break down and how they can be redesigned for resilience, adaptability, and future relevance. Learners will explore internal sources of breakdown, technical and knowledge-based barriers, the interaction between barriers and influence, and the lessons from major coordination failures. The module also introduces AI-driven team architecture, decentralised and leaderless teams, cross-border collaboration, algorithm governance, institutional fairness, and future team formation.

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1 assignment13 plugins

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