Learn about the key skills and practices required to successfully manage a cross-functional team.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What is a cross-functional team?
- The kinds of cross-functional teams
- Cross-functional team composition
- When to use a cross-functional team
- Cross-functional team advantages
- Challenges of building the team
- Leadership skills required
- Setting direction
- Gathering resources
- Allocating and prioritizing work
- Managing execution and performance
- Motivating people
- Resolving conflict
- Developing people
- Identifying possible problems
- Facilitating communication
- Leading effective meetings
- Communicating in a team
- Common types of conflict
- Conflicting priorities
- Conflicting ideas
- Conflicting work styles
- Conflicting personalities
- Conflicting performance
- What conflict can look like
- Next steps
Taught by
Mike Figliuolo