Brookings Executive Education

Program Series

Creating High-Performance Teams

In this course, you will learn the basic steps needed to build effective teams and sustain high performance over time. In addition, the program will help you frame your team’s goals, empower members and facilitate internal group dynamics to optimize team performance. The course objective is to help you leverage organizational capacity by creating high-performance teams.

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Creating High Performance Teams

OPM Competency

  • Team building

About the Instructor

Bill Bottom is currently the Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Bottom’s research addresses decision processes in the negotiation of deals and the resolution of disputes. He is a member of the Academy of Management and American Psychological Society, and is associate editor of the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Programs In This Series

Program Benefits

  • Understand the role of trust and conflict in effective teams
  • Design and lead initiatives to enhance team performance
  • Diagnose progress toward team goals, supporting teams in obtaining resources and expertise to achieve results
  • Develop the collaborative skills of team members as a leadership development strategyRecognize different forms of teamwork