Overview

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Led by the University of Illinois internationally recognized leadership development expert, Dr. David Rosch, Leading Teams That Last delivers an immediate, high-yield return on your professional training investment. Backed by Dr. Rosch’s decades of research and hands-on supervisory experience in both public and private sectors, this course bypasses generic theories to give you concrete, actionable strategies for scaling team performance. By shifting from a traditional "leader-centric" model to building "collective leadership capacity", you will learn how to empower your team to successfully share the responsibility of leading. Discover the"clock-building" strategy and watch your team experience fewer mistakes, resilience skyrockets under pressure, and your team is equipped to execute seamlessly even when you are absent, reclaiming your valuable managerial bandwidth. You will master the Cynefin framework to stop wasting time on the wrong problems, navigate diverse cultural communication styles to prevent costly friction, and build a personalized Managerial Strategic Plan. Equip yourself with the elite strategic tools necessary to build a self-sustaining team that protects your bottom line and stands the test of time.

Syllabus

Orientation & Module 1 | How to Find, Train, and Keep People Who Actually Perform
- Welcome to Leading Teams That Last! If you are ready to move beyond short-term project wins and master the secrets of long-term team longevity and sustainability, you are in the right place. In Module 1, we will dive straight into the foundational lifecycle of high-performing teams, uncovering how to select individuals who can and want to collaborate, how to train adults using relevance and personal meaning, and how to transition from simply "running" meetings to facilitating true, lasting team development.
Module 2 | Stop Seeing and Solving the Wrong Problems – Leading in a Complex World
- As a leader, what do you do when your environment shifts so dramatically that your old ways of doing things are no longer productive? In this module, you will master the art of Adaptive Leadership by learning how to balance tension and safety in a "holding environment" and how to accurately diagnose challenges using the Cynefin framework. You will also learn to analyze your team through four distinct lenses—as a factory, family, jungle, and temple while discovering why occasionally injecting a bit of "productive chaos" is the key to unlocking genuine team creativity and collaborative brainstorming.
Module 3 | Getting Your Team to “Click:” Managing Diverse and Virtual Teams
- In today's global, remote-friendly landscape, long-term team success depends on your ability to bridge both cultural divides and physical space. In this module, you will discover how to build genuine cultural competence using the "Four Corners" and "Six Stages" frameworks, navigate the subconscious biases of social identity, and master virtual collaboration by strategically matching your communication's bandwidth, richness, and social presence to the complexity of your message.
Module 4 and Conclusion | Building a Team of Leaders: Developing Collective Team Capacity
- Congrats! Course completion is around the corner, and we are glad you partnered with us to guide you on your professional journey. In this final module, you will discover how to transition your team from being "leader-centric" to "leadership-centric," a state where every member shares the responsibility of guiding, adapting, and aligning. You will learn to unlock the "magical" math of synergy—where 1 + 1 = 11. You will diagnose your team's current development level using a unique car-brand taxonomy, and discover the art of "leading less" to unleash a self-sustaining collective capacity that stands the test of time.