Improving Team Performance

This course will teach you how to build a strong agile foundation, improve performance within and across teams, and create value streams that accelerate delivery. You’ll learn how to diagnose and resolve team dysfunctions, facilitate high-impact agile ceremonies, align work to business priorities, use metrics effectively, and engage leadership and stakeholders in meaningful ways. Agile is widely adopted, yet many teams struggle with misalignment, ineffective meetings, and unclear value delivery. In this course, you’ll gain practical, real-world strategies to unify teams around a shared vision and strengthen collaboration across the organization. You’ll explore how to turn ceremonies into value-add opportunities, map and improve processes, and calculate efficiency to prioritize meaningful change. What makes this course unique is its end-to-end coaching perspective. Rather than focusing only on frameworks, it equips you with actionable tools to improve performance from the level of a single team to enterprise-wide alignment. Whether you’re an agile coach, team lead, or transformation champion, this course will help you drive measurable, sustainable improvements in team performance.

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.