Focus: Week 1 focuses on foundational team-building concepts, key theories, and why team building matters for performance, cohesion, and goal attainment.

Required Readings:

1. Fundamental Stages of Development through the Relevance of Team Building
2. Are Team Building Interventions Still Relevant?
3. Team Building and Teamwork in Organizations: Implications for Managers and Employees in Workplaces
4. Effectiveness of Team Building Training Improving The Cohesiveness of The Working Group

Focus: Week 2 examines Tuckman’s stages of team development and connects team growth to learning through experience using the Experiential Learning Cycle.

Required Readings:

1. The Impact of Group Work Stages on Team Collaboration: Analyzing Tuckman’s Model
2. Team Development and Experiential Learning
3. Examining Team Collaboration: A Study Utilizing Tuckman’s Framework for Analysis
4. A Study of Relationship of Factors in Tuckman Model

Focus: Week 3 emphasizes communication practices that strengthen teamwork, reduce misunderstanding, and support productive conflict management.

Required Readings:

1. Active Listening
2. Active Listening - A Model of Empathetic Communication in the Helping Professions
3. Active Listening as A Basic Skill of Efficient Communication Between Teachers and Parents: An Empirical Study
4. Communication Strategies and Our Learners
5. Expanding the Scope of Strategic Communication: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Organizational Complexity

Focus: Week 5 examines trust-building practices, cohesion in diverse and remote teams, and how trust supports knowledge sharing, collaboration, and shared leadership.

Required Readings:

1. Correlation Between Remote Management, Cohesion of Working Teams, and Personnel Engagement
2. Team Barriers to Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Project Teams
3. Making shared leadership work: The importance of trust in project-based organizations

Week 6 explores how inclusive team environments are designed to foster psychological safety, respect for uniqueness, and shared purpose, with emphasis on belonging as an organizational choice.

Required Readings:

1. PERMA and the building blocks of well-being
2. Belonging- A Review of Conceptual Issues, an Integrative Framework, and Directions for Future Research
3. About and beyond leading uniqueness and belongingness- A systematic review of inclusive leadership research
4. Martin Seligman video

Focus: Week 7 emphasizes sustaining performance through feedback systems, strategic measurement, and high-performance team practices that support continuous learning and resilience.

Required Readings:

1. Developing and Sustaining High-Performance Work Teams
2. The Future of Feedback: Motivating Performance Improvement Through Future-Focused Feedback
3. Enhancing the Effectiveness of Work Groups and Teams