Leading High-Performance Teams
Create the conditions for stronger team performance. Learn how to balance clarity, accountability, and psychological safety so talented people can do their best work together.
Price
4,490 CA$
Fall Session
Strong teams don't reach their full potential through talent or effort alone. They need leaders who can create clarity, build trust, strengthen accountability, and make space for people to speak candidly, solve problems, and take ownership.
Leading High-Performance Teams helps you expand your leadership range and create the conditions for sustained team performance. You will learn how to balance direction and empowerment, strengthen psychological safety, navigate complex team dynamics, and lead smart, capable people toward shared results.
You will leave with a more deliberate approach to leading teams: one that strengthens alignment, builds trust, supports accountability, and helps capable people do their best work together.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for capable leaders who are ready to elevate how they lead teams, build stronger cultures, and create performance through others. You may already be a strong leader, but recognize that the next level of leadership requires a more deliberate approach to how teams perform together.
You will benefit from this program if you are:
- Expanding from individual contribution into leadership through others
- Leading a capable team and looking to strengthen alignment, momentum, and shared accountability
- Preparing for a larger role, broader scope, or more complex team mandate
- Managing people with different expertise, working styles, or perspectives
- Leading through change, ambiguity, or cross-functional complexity
- Looking to build a team culture where people can speak candidly, take ownership, solve problems, and grow as leaders themselves
Leading High-Performance Teams is for leaders with the capability, ambition, and organizational trust to take on greater responsibility. The program helps participants expand their leadership range, move beyond instinctive habits, and create the conditions for teams to do their best work.
What You'll Gain
Leading High-Performance Teams helps you move from managing individual performance to creating the conditions for a team to perform at a higher level. You will build the self-awareness, practical tools, and leadership range needed to strengthen trust, clarity, accountability, and shared ownership across your team.
Expand your leadership range
Understand your natural leadership style and learn how to adapt it more deliberately as your responsibilities grow.
- Recognize your leadership default and how it shapes team performance.
- Balance clarity, direction, and accountability with trust, empowerment, and psychological safety.
- Move beyond instinctive leadership habits and choose the approach your team needs in the moment.
Create the conditions for stronger team performance
Learn how to build a team culture where talented people can do their best thinking and best work together.
- Strengthen psychological safety so people can speak candidly, raise concerns, and take productive risks.
- Clarify purpose, expectations, and ownership so effort translates into aligned action.
- Build habits that support trust, creativity, accountability, and sustained performance.
Lead through complexity and ambiguity
Build confidence leading smart, capable people when you do not personally hold all the answers.
- Lead teams with diverse expertise, working styles, and perspectives.
- Make better use of the talent around you without needing to be the subject-matter expert.
- Guide teams through uncertainty, change, and complex problems that require shared judgment.
Strengthen team culture and accountability
Develop practical tools for shaping team dynamics, coaching performance, and having the conversations that move people forward.
- Assess whether your team has the right mix of skills, mindsets, behaviours, and complementary strengths.
- Coach team members through challenging dynamics while preserving trust and momentum.
- Have more candid conversations about expectations, contribution, and impact.
Multiply leadership beyond yourself
Learn how to develop others so high performance does not depend on one leader carrying the team.
- Empower team members to take greater ownership and initiative.
- Create opportunities for others to grow as leaders of people, projects, and decisions.
- Build leadership capacity that extends beyond your own role and strengthens the organization over time.
How You Learn
This program is practical, experiential, and grounded in real team leadership challenges. You will learn through an integrated leadership case, simulation, peer discussion, and applied coaching practice. Across the program, you will examine how leaders build trust, clarify expectations, strengthen accountability, navigate difficult team dynamics, and create the conditions for people to perform at their best.
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Fees
4,490 CA$
Program fees cover program materials, breakfast, and lunch; participants are responsible for their own accommodations and meals outside program hours. Program fees are tax-exempt.
FAQs
Organizations and participants in Canada may benefit from the Canada Job Grant or the Canada Training Credit to offset a portion of program fees. Visit our Funding Resources page to learn more.
Our program managers will contact all registered participants prior to the program start date with instructions to join our online Learning Management System. Once logged in, you will be able to create a class profile, view other participants' profiles, and access a list of assigned pre-reading, cases, and activities. Plan to review and complete preparation work in advance of each class session.
At Ivey, we embrace learning as an interactive experience. Rather than lecturing, your faculty facilitators will guide the group through hands-on activities, discussions, cases, simulations, and more. To get the most value from your learning experience, you should expect to be present and engaged in class sessions. To learn more, click here to visit our Learning Experience page.
