At the top table
Senior leadership team development.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Team Development
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
The group at the top is often called a team without being one. This module covers Hambrick and Mason's upper echelons theory, Jon Katzenbach's top team myth and the single-leader unit, Lencioni's first team, and the particular features of top teams in public services, including statutory officers. It names four ways top teams go wrong and reads Northamptonshire County Council through the lens of the top team. The capstone practises the skill that matters most: reading a real situation through the ideas of team development. It examines the 1996 Everest disaster, Wales at Euro 2016 under the banner Together Stronger, and the emergency response to the Manchester Arena attack, drawing on Hackman, Edmondson, Roberto and JESIP. The cases are compared on two dimensions and drawn together into five layers of team development.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Distinguish a single-leader unit from real team mode and choose deliberately which an agenda item needs.
- Identify four ways top teams go wrong, including portfolio defence and performing unity.
- Assess your own top team using questions on purpose, mode, voice, the first team and learning.
- Apply team lenses such as voice, purpose and teaming to a real case, reading it forwards rather than with hindsight.
- Compare cases on psychological safety and voice, and on shared purpose and structure.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 16Top Teams and Senior Leadership TeamsThe group at the top is often called a team without being one. This module covers Hambrick and Mason's upper echelons theory, Jon Katzenbach's top team myth and the single-leader unit, Lencioni's first team, and the particular features of top teams in public services, including statutory officers. It names four ways top teams go wrong and reads Northamptonshire County Council through the lens of the top team.38 min
- 17Applied Case Studies: CapstoneThe capstone practises the skill that matters most: reading a real situation through the ideas of team development. It examines the 1996 Everest disaster, Wales at Euro 2016 under the banner Together Stronger, and the emergency response to the Manchester Arena attack, drawing on Hackman, Edmondson, Roberto and JESIP. The cases are compared on two dimensions and drawn together into five layers of team development.40 min
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Learning and leading together, 4 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Teams that grow, 5 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, The team that works, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Setting the course, Taking the director’s chair, Leading the whole
Other Bitesize in the Team Development topic
- What makes a teamTeam development: Tuckman and team effectiveness2 hours£39
- Clear purpose, right peopleTeam charters, goals, roles and composition1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Trust at the centreTrust and psychological safety in teams1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Better decisions togetherGroupthink, dissent and team conflict1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Beneath the surfaceTeam dynamics and the role of the team leader1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Teams that learnTeam coaching, reflexivity and debriefs1 hour 15 minutes£39
Also Inside
Strategy and the futureSetting the courseFlagship19 hours 30 minutes£499
Strategy and the futureTaking the director’s chairFlagship15 hours£459
Leading peopleLeading togetherSignatureLive with Jon and AmandaBespokeTalk to us about Leading together →
Strategy and the futureLeading the wholeFlagship18 hours£459