Training Package
Understand How To Develop High Performing Teams In Organisations
🎬 Contains VideosExplore the characteristics of high performing teams and the practical actions that develop them, helping learners assess how stronger teamwork benefits individuals, teams and organisations.
£2.00 per learner
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High performing teams are defined by consistent results, not simply by how busy, talented or friendly their members appear. This package examines what enables teams to deliver strong organisational outcomes repeatedly. It introduces clear purpose, shared commitment, effective communication, trust, accountability and a focus on results, helping learners recognise the difference between visible activity and effective performance. These foundations provide a basis for understanding how teams can improve their everyday working practices.
The content explores trust as confidence in colleagues’ reliability and honesty, particularly when work is difficult or cannot be directly observed. It connects this with accountability for the standard of individual work and judging effort through outcomes rather than activity. Learners consider how these conditions reinforce one another, supporting dependable working relationships without relying on constant monitoring. The emphasis is on recognising what effective teamwork looks like in practice.
The package then turns to actions that support team development: setting goals and objectives, conducting appraisal and identifying skills gaps. It introduces the SMART framework to explain how broad expectations become specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound commitments. By linking clear expectations with evidence-based performance review and attention to missing capability, the content shows why asking people to ‘do better’ is not enough. These actions help connect individual development with team performance and organisational aims.
Finally, learners examine collaboration and the sharing of knowledge and expertise. The content considers how interdependent tasks require people to coordinate information, responsibilities and resources, using workplace situations such as complaints handling and housing repairs to make the issues concrete. It also examines the impact of developing high performing teams at individual, team and organisational levels, including confidence, productivity, morale and business outcomes. The package includes video and is delivered through the buyer’s own LMS, supporting learning about how to recognise, support and contribute to effective workplace teams.
Who it’s for
This package suits team leaders, managers, aspiring managers and people studying organisational leadership or team performance. It is also relevant to team members who want to understand how their working practices contribute to shared results.
What’s covered
Foundations of high performing teams
Defines high performance as consistent organisational results rather than busyness or isolated success. Introduces clear purpose, shared commitment and strong communication as foundations for effective teamwork.
Trust, accountability and results
Explores trust as confidence in colleagues’ reliability and honesty, accountability as ownership of work standards, and results focus as judging performance by outcomes. Explains how these conditions reinforce one another.
Goal setting, appraisal and skills gap analysis
Examines how clear goals and objectives turn performance expectations into practical commitments, including use of the SMART framework. Connects appraisal and skills gap identification with improving individual capability and team effectiveness.
Collaboration, knowledge sharing and organisational impact
Explores the coordination of people, tasks, resources and information across interdependent work. Considers how collaboration and sharing expertise affect outcomes, alongside the impact of team development on individuals, teams and organisations.
Learning outcomes
By completing this package, learners can:
- Define the key characteristics of high performing teams, including shared purpose, trust, accountability and effective communication.
- Describe the actions that support the development of high performing teams, including setting goals and objectives, conducting appraisals, identifying skills gaps, collaborating and sharing knowledge and expertise.
- Explain how setting clear goals and objectives contributes to team performance and alignment with organisational aims.
- Analyse how appraisal processes and skills gap identification can improve individual capability and team effectiveness.
- Assess the impact of collaboration and knowledge sharing on team performance and the quality of team outcomes.
- Evaluate the impact of developing high performing teams at individual, team and organisational levels.
What’s included
A deployable SCORM package with practical learning content, ready for your LMS.
How it works
Add access, upload the package to your LMS, and pay per learner who uses it.
Frequently asked questions
What makes a team high performing?
The package defines a high performing team through consistent organisational results, rather than busyness or a single successful project. It examines clear purpose, shared commitment, communication, trust, accountability and a focus on outcomes.
Does the package cover practical ways to improve team performance?
Yes. It covers goal setting, SMART objectives, appraisal, skills gap identification, collaboration and sharing knowledge and expertise, linking these actions to individual and team effectiveness.
Does it explain the wider organisational benefits of team development?
Yes. Learners examine the impact at individual, team and organisational levels, including how stronger working practices can contribute to confidence, productivity, morale and business outcomes.
Is this content relevant to team members as well as managers?
Yes. Although the development actions are particularly relevant to managers and team leaders, the content also helps team members understand trust, accountability, communication and their contribution to shared results.
How is the package delivered, and does it include video?
It is an e-learning package uploaded to the buyer’s own LMS, where learners access the content. The package includes video.
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