Do you want to get ahead in the workplace? Get insider knowledge: learn more about working in teams by taking our new course on FutureLearn.

Developed from 75+ years of Tavistock research and experience of working with groups, this 5 star online short course Team Working: How to Succeed, available free for four weeks, is for anyone who wants to learn more about working in a team.

Become more self-aware and aware of what happens inside teams, including understanding about:

· how the Unconscious impacts teamwork; 

· The BART model – Boundary, Authority, Role, Task;

· what kind of group dynamics may be happening and your part in them; 

· how Systems Thinking can help you become aware what’s really going on in your team.

Who is it for?

Whether you are part of a team and wondering how to navigate it or whether you’re leading a team or organisation and want to understand more about what’s going on, this course is for you. 

You can start anytime - the course is over 4 weeks for 3 hours each week. At the moment, the course is free for the first four weeks or £74 for unlimited access.

What’s this course about?

Introducing you to Tavistock methodologies, find out what goes on beneath-the-surface in work teams and how this affects you, other people and how your team performs.

Filled with articles, polls and quizzes, the course illustrates the ideas about work using a fictional food delivery company called Grub2You, with stories about the people who work there.

You use practical tools to build your awareness about your own and others’ behaviour, and you can share your ideas and deepen your learning with your co-learners.

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What’s the format?

Lead Educator, Rachel Kelly says: “We wanted to create a course for anyone who is interested in working better in a team. You start by looking at your self, exploring how you show up at work”.

“Then you move on to other people and the relationships you have at work. You think about your role within the organisation. Finally, you explore in more depth what happens in teams”.

The course draws on the systems psychodynamics approaches the Institute has developed over 75+ years, to help people understand more about teamwork and the part they may be playing in what happens in a team. 

This course builds on the Interreg project – Boosting Human Capital in the 21st Century — which worked with young people who were not in education or employment, the unemployed and people who find it difficult to find and stay in a job, in 3 areas across Europe. The Institute partnered with Kent County Council, MidKent College and the Department for Work and Pensions, amongst others, to explore innovative methods and tools to find out what works. 

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