Building High-Performance Teams

Ivey Business School

Performance Management

About Programme

Most leaders don’t struggle with effort. Their teams are capable and hard-working. But when results stall, the instinct is to increase intensity: more accountability, tighter oversight, and "stronger" direction. Sometimes that works, but often it doesn’t. The team works harder, but the outcomes don’t correlate.

The issue usually isn't motivation. It’s how the team is set up to perform. Competing priorities, unclear ownership, and inconsistent decision-making limit performance, no matter how hard people work.

Building High-Performance Teams helps leaders focus their team's efforts where they create the most impact. Instead of pushing harder, you'll learn to clarify priorities, improve decision quality, and reshape team dynamics so performance improves without constant pressure. The result is consistent, measurable execution across the team.

Programme Content

Diagnose what is limiting your team’s performance, including unclear priorities, slow decisions, or diffuse accountability.

Clarify roles, expectations, and ownership so work can move forward without constant escalation.

Improve decision quality and speed by strengthening how discussions are structured and how trade-offs are surfaced.

Align individual strengths with the team’s mandate so contributions are intentional and coordinated.

Create conditions where disagreement is productive, risks are raised early, and accountability is shared.

Programme Audience

This program is for leaders who are accountable for team performance. That includes:

Managers leading intact teams

Directors and Vice Presidents responsible for enterprise execution

HR or people leaders supporting leadership effectiveness and organizational culture

Project leaders responsible for delivering results in complex, cross-functional environments

You'll get the most value if you oversee a team where results depend less on individual effort and more on how well the group works together. If you are responsible for translating strategy into coordinated action, this program helps you make the leap from good to great.

Programme Benefits

What will you achieve by Building High-Performance Teams?

Boost Self-Awareness of Your Role as Leader:

Adapt your leadership approach by deeply reflecting on your personal strengths, development needs, and biases in order to create empowered, high-performing teams.

Optimize Team Strengths and Composition:

Understand your team’s strengths, skills, experiences and structure to enable more effective performance, while enhancing the unique competencies and experiences of diverse team members.

Effectively Engage the Team:

Create alignment through clear vision-setting, collaborative goal development, and accountability structures. Set a foundation of trust, alignment, and inclusion to build a culture of transparency, feedback, collaboration and psychological safety where team members feel safe to take risks and be creative.

Navigate the Organizational Ecosystem:

Enable the team to engage effectively with the broader organization, building cross-functional relationships, and collaborating on organizational initiatives.

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Prashansa Uttam

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+91 9403890085[email protected]Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm IST

Ivey Business School

Executive Education Office

https://www.ivey.uwo.ca

Milan, Canada

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