Leading Teams and Driving Impact
Leading Teams and Driving Impact
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3-module
series
3
weeks
5 hours
per week
12/11/2025
last updated
What you’ll learn in Leading Teams and Driving Impact
In this leadership and performance training course, you’ll gain the frameworks and tools needed to lead high-performing teams, strengthen culture, and deliver consistent results. Each concept is grounded in real workplace scenarios, giving you practical skills you can apply immediately.
Build high-performing teams: Strengthen collaboration and drive engagement using team diagnostics, trust-building models, accountability tools, role-clarity frameworks, and inclusion practices.
Foster motivation and accountability: Use accountability systems, feedback loops, and performance-tracking tools to support leadership culture development, applying leadership analytics to measure progress and sustain engagement.
Inspire vision and culture: Craft a clear leadership vision and shape team culture with tools that support leadership culture development, applying innovation behaviors, communication models, and culture-building practices that foster trust, creativity, and clarity.
Drive measurable results: Use performance frameworks like OKRs, Balanced Scorecards, and execution templates to connect strategy to action, make data-informed decisions, track progress, and demonstrate clear business impact.
Lead through change: Apply structured change-management models to maintain performance and protect morale, while strengthening adaptability, communication, and decision-making during transitions.
Meet the course designer
Kimberly Black, Associate Professor, Business Strategist & Leadership Innovator
“True leadership starts from within. When you lead yourself with clarity and purpose, you create the space for your team to thrive.”
Kimberly has built her career across industries including finance, healthcare, retail, and real estate. Growing up in an entrepreneurial family gave her a practical perspective on what it takes to inspire people and drive results.
As faculty member at DeVry University and part of the DeVryPro design team, Kimberly contributed to Foundations of Self-Leadership with a focus on the realities leaders face today—the need for emotional intelligence, resilience, and collaboration in fast-moving workplaces.
Her expertise is reflected throughout the course, where each module is designed to give learners practical tools they can put into action immediately. From building trust to making confident decisions, Kimberly’s insights help learners lead with empathy and drive meaningful outcomes.
Why take this team leadership course
Turn leadership into strategic leverage with a course designed to elevate you from individual effectiveness to team-level influence, culture transformation, and performance acceleration, equipping you to lead with purpose, precision, and measurable impact.
Empower your team
Build a strong leadership pipeline by using coaching frameworks, accountability structures, and collaboration tools that develop capability and strengthen ownership.
Deliver measurable outcomes
Turn strategy into execution using leadership analytics, performance metrics, and data-driven decision tools that improve reliability and accelerate results.
Shape culture through vision
Strengthen engagement and drive cultural alignment through clear communication, shared values, and vision-led leadership practices.
Grow as a strategic leader
Deepen competencies in strategic thinking, analytical decision-making, influence, agility, and communication, skills essential for higher-level leadership roles.
Celebrate your success
After completing this course, you’ll earn a digital badge that you can use to demonstrate your achievement to employers and peers.
Leading Teams and Driving Impact modules
Discover the team leadership course modules you’ll experience as part of the Leading Teams and Driving Impact course:
Build cohesive, high-accountability teams using trust frameworks, conflict-resolution tools, and team diagnostics which surface strengths and growth opportunities.
Develop a compelling leadership vision and use models like McKinsey 7S and CVF to strengthen culture, innovation, agility, and team engagement.
Use OKRs, Balanced Scorecards, SWOT, and execution systems to drive data-informed decisions, strategic alignment, and measurable business impact.
Take the next step in your leadership pathway
Since you’re exploring this team leadership course, you may also be interested in courses that help you expand your influence, strengthen relationships, and lead with confidence.
- Foundations of Self-Leadership: The first course in the Leadership Pathway. Build emotional intelligence, resilience, and personal effectiveness to prepare for advanced leadership and team-based responsibilities.
- AI for Leaders: Innovate, Influence, and Build the Future: Learn how to leverage AI tools to improve decision-making, strengthen communication, and create innovative team environments where people and technology work together.
Interested in a degree program instead?
Explore undergraduate and graduate business, technology, and digital health programs offered by DeVry University and its Keller Graduate School of Management.
1 State of the Global Workplace: 2025 Report. Gallup, April 2025