Building and Leading High Performing Teams with Neil Jurd
Who is the course for?
If you want to make your team or organisation more effective this course is for you. You might be running a community project or club, or leading a business, either way you will find this course interesting and useful. Building high-performing teams is an essential aspect of effective leadership, and if you do this well you will leadership is much easier. This course will give you the skills to build a strong and successful team.
What you’ll get from the course.
This course will help you to bring out the best from the people in your team and will show you how to focus effort and achieve results. Leadership isn’t about working hard; it is about increasing your positive impact by engaging others. Effective leaders build strong teams, and then they trust those teams to think, create and act. This course will give you the theory and support you need to build your own effective team.
Topics covered include:
- The 4- stages of team development – stagnation to excellence
- Developing peak communications throughout your team
- How to focus people on the most important work
- High Performing Military Culture – Mission Command
- Simple and Effective Planning
- Understanding difference perspectives
- How diversity improves performance
- The OODA loop – a tool to help decision-making
- Using the Performance Equation
How to use the course.
There are two aspects to this, firstly your own learning – where we suggest that you take time to digest and apply each lesson, and you might also choose to work with a partner, mentor or coach you can discuss ideas with. It would also make sense for you to share the content with your team and engage them in productive discussion about the ideas in this course could be applied in the team they are part of. As such the videos are not just for your own education, they can serve as an immediate catalyst for the development and continuous improvement of your team.
Additional Material. You might like to purchase a copy of Neil Jurd’s the Leadership Book to support your development. It is available on Amazon, or can be bought through the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst shop following this link: The Leadership Book.
The Course Host
Neil Jurd OBE is the author of The Leadership Book and founder of Leader-Connect the online learning and leadership training organisation. A former army officer, he has led soldiers on operations around the world, and spent two years teaching leadership at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Neil is a regular guest on leadership related podcasts, and his articles about leadership have featured in Forbes Magazine, People Management and HR Magazine. Clients for his leadership talks and courses include the UK Board of Santander, BDP Singapore Ports, Virgin Media, Sanofi and the University of Sheffield. Neil is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership, is an Honorary Teaching Fellow of Lancaster University, and was appointed OBE in 2021.