Leadership Management

Team Building: How to Create Trust, Alignment, and High Performance

A practical course with Professor David Grant on building cohesive teams that collaborate, communicate, and deliver results.

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Quick Course Facts
15
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
15
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
4.7
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Team Building: How to Create Trust, Alignment, and High Performance Course

This Team Building course helps you create stronger, more effective teams by focusing on trust, alignment, and high performance. Designed for managers, emerging leaders, and anyone responsible for group success, it shows how Leadership practices can improve collaboration, communication, and results across the whole team.

Build High-Performing Teams With Clear Leadership And Trust

  • Learn the core principles behind effective Team Building and what makes teams work
  • Strengthen Leadership skills for setting direction, improving alignment, and driving accountability
  • Develop practical tools for communication, conflict management, and better decision-making
  • Apply A practical course with Professor David Grant on building cohesive teams that collaborate, communicate, and deliver results. to real workplace challenges

A practical course with Professor David Grant on building cohesive teams that collaborate, communicate, and deliver results.

In this course, you will explore how successful teams are formed, how roles and responsibilities should be structured, and how shared goals keep everyone moving in the same direction. You will also examine the habits that create psychological safety, encourage openness, and support honest communication, all of which are essential to modern Leadership.

Through practical lessons on meetings, group decisions, feedback, conflict management, and team norms, you will learn how to improve day-to-day team performance without adding unnecessary complexity. The course also covers motivation, different working styles, cross-functional collaboration, and how to help teams adapt under pressure.

By the end of the course, you will know how to assess team health, create stronger working agreements, and build habits that support continuous improvement. You will leave with a clearer Leadership approach and the confidence to guide teams that are more aligned, resilient, and capable of delivering better results together.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Team Foundations

1 lesson

In this lesson, Professor David Grant explains what actually makes a team work: a clear shared purpose, complementary roles, mutual dependence, and norms that support trust and coordination. You will …

Direction and Alignment

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Defining Purpose and Shared Goals

18 min
This lesson explains how to define a team purpose that is clear enough to guide everyday decisions and strong enough to unite different personalities, functions, and priorities. You will learn how to …

Team Structure

1 lesson

Lesson 3: Setting Roles, Responsibilities, and Boundaries

18 min
Clear team structure starts with role clarity : who owns what, who supports whom, and where decisions are made. In this lesson, Professor David Grant shows how to define responsibilities, set boundari…

Trust and Openness

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Building Trust and Psychological Safety

20 min
Trust and psychological safety are the foundation of effective teamwork. In this lesson, you will learn what they are, why they matter, and how leaders and team members can create an environment where…

Team Communication

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Communication Habits That Improve Collaboration

18 min
This lesson focuses on the everyday communication habits that make collaboration easier, faster, and less frustrating. You will learn how clear requests, timely updates, active listening, and construc…

Meeting Effectiveness

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Running Productive Team Meetings

18 min
Productive team meetings do not happen by accident. They are designed with a clear purpose, the right participants, and a focused agenda that makes good use of everyone’s time. In this lesson, you’ll …

Group Decisions

1 lesson

Lesson 7: Decision-Making as a Group

20 min
Group decisions are often where teams either build alignment or create frustration. In this lesson, we focus on how teams can make decisions in a way that is clear, inclusive, and efficient without tu…

Conflict Management

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Handling Conflict Before It Escalates

20 min
Conflict is not the enemy of teamwork; unmanaged conflict is. In this lesson, you will learn how to spot early warning signs, address issues while they are still small, and use respectful, direct conv…

Performance Habits

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Feedback, Accountability, and Follow-Through

18 min
This lesson shows how high-performing teams turn good intentions into reliable execution. Professor David Grant explains how to give feedback that improves behavior, create clear accountability withou…

Team Energy

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Motivation and Engagement in Teams

18 min
Motivation and engagement are not about forcing enthusiasm or relying on perks. In strong teams, energy comes from people feeling that their work matters, that expectations are clear, and that effort …

People Differences

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Leading Different Personalities and Working Styles

20 min
This lesson explains how to lead people with different personalities and working styles without forcing everyone to operate the same way. You will learn how to spot useful differences, adapt your lead…

Operating Rules

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Creating Team Norms and Working Agreements

18 min
Team norms and working agreements turn a group of capable people into a coordinated team. In this lesson, you will learn how to define the behaviors, decision rules, communication habits, and meeting …

Working Across Boundaries

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Building Cross-Functional Collaboration

20 min
Cross-functional collaboration happens when people from different functions can work together without friction, duplication, or hidden agendas. In this lesson, learners focus on the practical habits t…

Resilience and Adaptation

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Managing Team Change and Pressure

20 min
Team change and pressure can either strengthen a team or expose weak habits. In this lesson, Professor David Grant shows how leaders and team members can steady performance when priorities shift, dead…

Continuous Improvement

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Measuring Team Health and Improving Over Time

18 min
Measuring team health means looking beyond output and checking whether the team is actually functioning well together. In this lesson, you will learn practical ways to track trust, alignment, communic…
About Your Instructor
Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.