Free Online Teamwork Courses

1. Effective Leadership Skills and Strategies

Just because you’re ‘the boss’, it doesn’t mean you know how to lead your team to reach a shared goal. This in-demand course explains how to give feedback, change your leadership style if necessary and adopt a ‘super leader’ attitude to your position.

2. Business Communication - Managing Successful Team Meetings

Teams either love or hate meetings! Ensure your staff have productive and inspiring meetings by learning how to prepare for them, incorporate technology and handle disagreements effectively,

3. Group Communication, Teamwork and Leadership

Understanding how groups form, what roles different people take in a group and how to mould a group into a functional team takes skilled leadership from you. Fortunately, this course gives you useful tips on how to achieve a high-functioning team.

Every great achievement is generally the result of teamwork: building the pyramids in Egypt, finding treatments for cancer, building houses and gathering crops. Even individual achievements have an invisible team behind them: the solo artist may create the work itself but they’re using tools created by others, the skills taught to them by teachers and might even be relying on others to make their meals or act as their agent.

This is because humans are a deeply social species. We literally need others to survive. But, although we are innately social, it doesn’t mean teamwork or being a leader comes naturally. In the past, we may have lived in societies and worked in teams where there was a high degree of shared similarities, for example, all members had the same religion, culture, education - even race or gender. Now, with remote working, you could be the manager of a group of people from around the world who’ve never even met each other! It is as important as ever to understand how to lead, how to motivate and how to communicate to highly diverse teams. In this way, you can achieve your shared goal with minimal stress and maximum enjoyment.

There are so many roles that rely on the coming together of a team, especially in a crisis. If you want to work in any of these careers, consider doing several courses in the dynamics of teamwork and effective leadership:

• Human resources

• Disaster management services

• Emergency medical response

• Event planning

• Customer service

• Sales

• Marketing

• Administration

• Warehousing

• Logistics

• Construction

• Project management

• Theatre and film