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Creating High Performance Teams

Explore the realities of creating and leading high-performance teams through turbulent times at Cambridge Judge Business School.

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Next date
7 Dec-10 Dec 2026
Duration
4 x 0.5 days
Format
Live Online
Area
People management

Overview

Explore the realities of creating and leading high-performance teams through turbulent times. Transforming talented individuals into cohesive, high-powered teams within the context of managing an organisation is a complex, multi-faceted issue. Strong teamwork is critical to meeting and surpassing strategic objectives. But the current global business climate has made the landscape in which businesses operate even more challenging.

Creating High Performance Teams at Cambridge Judge offers you new perspectives on building superior team performance in a world where remote and virtual working is now often the norm.

Learn to foster a vibrant team culture that leverages a variety of skills from its members. Understand how to motivate and evaluate your people, and when necessary, be primed to lead from a distance.

Why attend the Creating High Performance Teams

Business challenges solved

  • Gain new perspectives on how to achieve superior team performance, particularly within the context of COVID-19.
  • Explore the importance of diverse, high-performance cultures. 
  • Understand how to engage remote teams.
  • Develop your individual leadership style.
  • Engage with outstanding Cambridge faculty and associates.
  • Explore new perspectives immersed in an intimate and global peer group.
  • Gain a Cambridge Judge Business School digital certificate of completion.

Outcomes

  • Enable your senior people to build and structure optimally effective teams.
  • Create teams that can achieve peak performance, both face-to-face and remotely.
  • Benefit from newly re-skilled and motivated leaders.
Business challenges solved
  • Gain new perspectives on how to achieve superior team performance, particularly within the context of COVID-19.
  • Explore the importance of diverse, high-performance cultures. 
  • Understand how to engage remote teams.
  • Develop your individual leadership style.
  • Engage with outstanding Cambridge faculty and associates.
  • Explore new perspectives immersed in an intimate and global peer group.
  • Gain a Cambridge Judge Business School digital certificate of completion.
Outcomes
  • Enable your senior people to build and structure optimally effective teams.
  • Create teams that can achieve peak performance, both face-to-face and remotely.
  • Benefit from newly re-skilled and motivated leaders.

Who should attend this programme?

Attendees include:

Team leaders and managers who want to:

  • develop powerful teams, maximise performance and optimise organisational effectiveness
  • build their motivation and influencing skills within their peer group
  • work with other teams to develop social networks
  • recalibrate organisational culture towards high-performance working
  • enhance their ability to motivate remote teams.

What you will learn

Module 1: The leader as coach
  • Learn to create a coaching culture and optimise individual performance.
  • Explore coaching as a leadership style, the coaching continuum and coaching interventions.
  • Focus on team coaching skills.
  • Discover the optimal blend of support and challenge to develop your team.
  • Understand how to use coaching tools and techniques in team meetings (both face-to-face and virtual). 
Module 2: Creating high performance teams
  • Explore frameworks and diagnostic tools for managing high performance teams.
  • Identify the critical components to successfully structure and lead a high-performance team, including preparation, planning and control.
  • Formulate the logic to take challenging decisions at critical junctures.
Module 3: Leading high-performance teams
  • Broaden your lens to explore the mindsets, behaviours, and interactions of an effective team.
  • Understand the key elements that help teams perform at a higher level.
  • Explore case studies from the worlds of high-performance sport, business and diplomacy.
  • Learn why connecting with others is critical – default to collaboration, rather than competition.
Module 4: Managing team processes effectively
  • Clarify the roles and responsibilities of team members to ensure high performance.
  • Examine the most effective ways to manage remote teams effectively, maintaining communication and culture.
  • Learn to leverage the diversity within your team.
  • Develop strategies to maximise individual contribution, ensuring optimal impact.

Why choose Cambridge Judge Executive Education

Cambridge Judge faculty

All of our programmes are designed and led by Academic Programme Director, who is a member of Cambridge Judge Business School faculty. They will also deliver substantial portions odf that programme.

Leading-edge research

The research conducted by Cambridge Judge Business School’s 20 research centres, across a diverse range of disciplines, flows directly into all of our programmes, bringing new insights to our programme content.

Small group learning

With small class sizes, we continue the Cambridge way of learning that emphasises high levels of interaction with both our world-class faculty and peers.

Fees and upcoming dates

What’s included with your fee

  • £4,000 + VAT (Face-to-face)
  • £2,500 + VAT (Live Online)

Fees include instruction, materials, lunch and breaks. Preferential rates may be available for groups, University of Cambridge alumni and members of the School’s Alumni Association. Please note prices pre-registration are subject to change. VAT  is charged at the prevailing rate, which is currently 20%.

7 Dec-10 Dec 2026

  • Live Online
  • 4 x 0.5 days

£2,500 + VAT

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29 Oct-30 Oct 2026

  • Live Online
  • 4 x 0.5 days

£4,000 + VAT

Apply now