--- title: Team Building description: Team building is the process of turning individual employees into a cohesive, collaborative unit. Learners will understand how to design activities, resolve interpersonal conflicts, and establish shared goals that improve trust and collective performance. category: personal-development subcategory: leadership difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/team-building --- # Team Building Team building is the process of turning individual employees into a cohesive, collaborative unit. Learners will understand how to design activities, resolve interpersonal conflicts, and establish shared goals that improve trust and collective performance. ## Available Resources 1 Videos • 1 Books • 3 Courses • 3 Websites ## Websites ### 1. re:Work - Guide: Understand team effectiveness Google's re:Work guide to Project Aristotle, its internal study of what makes teams effective. It explains the five dynamics identified—psychological safety, dependability, structure and clarity, meaning, and impact—and offers tools for discussing and improving them on your own team. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/understanding-team-effectiveness/steps/intro/ **Tags:** team-effectiveness, psychological-safety, project-aristotle, teamwork ### 2. tablegroup.com TableGroup.com is the official site for The Table Group, offering leadership and team-building resources, including books, assessments, trainings, webinars, and consulting services to help organizations improve teamwork and overall health. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://tablegroup.com **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, leadership ### 3. mindtools.com Mind Tools offers practical business and management resources—articles, templates, checklists, and self-assessments—covering business communication, leadership, teamwork, meetings, and professional writing. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://mindtools.com **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ## Videos ### 1. How great leaders inspire action Simon Sinek's 2009 TEDx talk introducing the golden circle: why purpose precedes method and product in persuasion. As a model of presentation craft, it shows a single idea carried by repetition, drawing, and restraint. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4 **Tags:** public-speaking, persuasion, storytelling, ted-talk, leadership ## Podcasts ### 1. The Team Coaching Zone **Author:** Dr. Krister Lowe: Organizational Psychologist, Entrepeneur and Team Coach Join Carissa Bub--Host of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast--and today's leaders, entrepreneurs and coaches as we explore the art and science of team coaching in communities and organizations. Discover how team coaching can accelerate team development and performance, can foster the development of leadership cultures, can drive organizational change and more. Tune in for interviews with team coaching experts. Hear stories of "hits and misses" and essential lessons learned from conducting real team coaching engagements. Discover practical tools and resources to support your internal or external team coaching practice. The podcast is for new and experienced coaches, human resources and... **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://hakawati.fm/channel/4003 **Tags:** team-coaching, team-development, leadership, organizational-psychology, interviews ## Courses ### 1. Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 12 hours videos, quizzes, and homework | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/emotional-intelligence-leadership **Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, leadership ### 2. Building High-Performing Teams Teams are essential to the modern organization, but most never reach their potential. Co-workers miscommunicate, and groups struggle to adapt to changes in the market or their organizations. When teams lack self-awareness about these challenges, performance suffers. Based on years of team culture research and consulting experience, this course helps you understand the problems that hurt productivity, and gives you tools for creating positive change. This course also guides you through creating the ground rules and structure needed to set your team up for success. You gain the skills to diagnose issues such as conflicts, groupthink and lack of commitment in your team before they get out of control. The course offers frameworks to adjust team behaviors and get the best performance out of your people. You also understand frequent stumbling blocks for common team types, such as startups and virtual teams, and learn solutions tailored to each one. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/high-performing-teams **Tags:** team-building, team-dynamics, management, conflict-resolution, remote-teams ### 3. Leading Teams **Author:** Maxim Sytch University of Michigan course on leading teams, covering team composition, aligning goals, roles and structures, decision making, conflict resolution and trust. Learners gain tools to set up, run, evaluate and continuously improve a team while avoiding common coordination and motivation failures. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Duration:** 4 weeks of study, 1-2 hours/week | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/leading-teams **Tags:** team-leadership, team-design, conflict-resolution, decision-making, team-performance ## Books ### 1. Team of Teams **Author:** Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell Retired general Stanley McChrystal's account of restructuring the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq from a rigid command hierarchy into a network of teams. Explains shared consciousness and empowered execution, and how to apply trust and transparency across large organizations facing fast-changing conditions. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0241250838?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, business-entrepreneurship, leadership --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/team-building