Overview

This specialization equips you with practical, research-informed strategies to improve team performance through stronger leadership, clearer communication, and more effective feedback systems. By completing these courses, you’ll gain the skills to build high-performing teams, navigate change with confidence, and address performance challenges with clarity and empathy. You’ll learn how to create alignment around goals and priorities, lead teams through growth and disruption, and design systems that support accountability without micromanagement. The specialization also dives deeply into feedback—how to give it, receive it, and embed it into daily work in ways that actually drive improvement. You’ll practice delivering timely, specific, and personalized feedback; managing emotionally charged conversations; motivating different performance types; and addressing persistent performance issues fairly and effectively. Whether you’re a people manager, team lead, or individual contributor seeking greater influence, this specialization provides a cohesive, end-to-end framework for improving how teams work—and how performance is sustained over time.and second-year undergraduates interested in engineering or science, along with high school students and professionals with an interest in programming.

Syllabus

Casting Your Vision

Without a clear and compelling vision, even the most capable teams can lose focus or drift away from what truly drives performance. In this module, you’ll learn how to lead with purpose, set clear and actionable goals, and reinforce consistent activity so you can build a culture where progress is intentional, measurable, and sustained.

Leading High-Performing Teams

High-performing teams don't happen by accident. They're shaped by leaders who model the standard and understand how teams grow over time. In this module, you’ll learn how to lead by example and guide your team through the stages of development so you can strengthen trust, accelerate growth, and build a culture that sustains high performance.

Building Top Teams

You can’t build exceptional results without the right people and the right preparation in place. In this module, you’ll learn how to identify the qualities of top performers and emotionally prepare your team for what’s ahead so you can strengthen trust, improve retention, and consistently raise the bar on performance.

Building Momentum

Momentum doesn’t happen by chance. It’s built through consistent action, shared belief, and small wins that compound over time. In this module, you’ll learn how to create and sustain forward progress so your team stays energized, focused, and committed to delivering results.

Building in Accountability

Accountability can easily be confused with micromanagement, but when done right, it becomes a powerful driver of growth and results. In this module, you’ll learn how to create a culture of true accountability and identify key growth opportunities so you can align activity with goals and accelerate your team’s performance.

Getting Back on Track

Every team hits setbacks, but what separates strong leaders is how quickly and effectively they respond. In this module, you’ll learn how to address performance gaps with care, rebuild momentum, and use the right mix of motivation strategies so you can get your team back on track and moving forward with confidence.

Run with Your Thoroughbreds

As your team matures, your role shifts from doing the work to multiplying leadership and sustaining high performance. In this module, you’ll learn how to empower and delegate to top producers, duplicate your leadership, and finish strong so you can scale your impact, grow future leaders, and drive lasting results for the organization.