Transform Your Group into a High Performing Team
Move beyond “cooperation” and start driving consistent results through intentional leadership.
In a Nutshell Most leaders are actually leading a group of individuals who happen to report to the same person. This course is the definitive roadmap for turning that collection of individuals into a unified, high performing unit. You will learn how to move past the drama of the “storming” phase and install a culture where execution is the standard, not the exception.
Identify Your Team Type: Understand if you are leading a crew, a task force, or a standing functional team to match your leadership style to the specific mission.
Master the 5P Meeting: Implement a structured cadence designed to build an unbreakable accountability culture without the “shame and blame” of traditional management.
Operationalize Commander’s Intent: Learn to share the “Why” so clearly that your team can intelligently adapt and solve their own problems when circumstances inevitably change.
Install Healthy Conflict: Create a conflict-aware environment where team members debate ideas rather than attacking personalities.
Move the Middle: Stop wasting energy on the actively disengaged and learn how to pull the “not engaged” majority into high performance.
This Course Is For
Managers in High-Stakes Environments: Leaders who need consistent execution regardless of shifting circumstances.
Remote and Hybrid Leaders: Anyone managing geographic separation, time zones, and the nuances of digital camaraderie.
Emerging Leaders: Individual contributors moving into their first role where they are responsible for others’ results.
HR Professionals: L&D leaders looking for a field-tested framework for their management pipeline.
Course Description
The word “team” is one of the most overused and misunderstood terms in the modern workplace. Simply putting people in proximity or on the same org chart does not create a team; it creates a group of people “waiting for the bus.”
High performance is not a gut feeling or a good intention; it is the objective, quantifiable byproduct of an intentionally constructed culture.
Through this training, Dr. David Arrington serves as your tour guide and “leadership sommelier” to help you explore the critical stages of team development—Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.
You will learn to identify exactly where your team is currently stuck. Most teams plateau in the “Storming” phase because the leader lacks a repeatable process for handling friction.
This course provides the blueprint to move your team toward consistent results, ensuring they deliver high-quality products every single time, without excuse or error.
Furthermore, you will tackle the “Silent Killer” of performance: disengagement. With research showing that a significant number of professionals have left a job specifically to get away from a manager, this course shows you how to be the leader people want to work for over their entire career.
Through a strategic communication approach, you will learn to delegate the objective and empower your people to own the “How.”
What You Will Learn The Mechanics of Execution: Discover why high performance is a quantifiable objective and how to bridge the gap between “talking” and “doing.”
The Interdependence Framework: Learn how to help individuals sublimate their own needs for a communal goal, creating a unit that works as one.
Psychological Ownership: Shift your team’s mindset from simply “putting in time” to becoming dedicated stakeholders who take personal pride in driving every result.
Strategic Conflict Management: Identify the five ways people handle friction and learn how to move from unproductive avoidance to collaborative solutions.
Authentic Trust Building: Learn why “invulnerability” is a leadership trap and how owning your mistakes actually builds your credibility with the team.
The Diversity Advantage: Understand how informational diversity and varied perspectives drive innovation and faster problem-solving.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most programs teach you how to manage tasks. This course teaches you how to lead individuals through a psychological shift from compliance to commitment. We focus on the “Why” to supercharge the “What.”
Yes. While the core principles of high performance are universal, we address the unique challenges of digital environments.
For those looking to dive deeper into virtual relationship dynamics, we recommend our companion course, Relational Leadership in a Hybrid Environment.
High performance is quantifiable. If your team only executes when the planets are aligned or when you are micromanaging them, you have an average team.
High-performing teams execute consistently regardless of the curveballs thrown their way.
We view diversity and inclusion as critical indicators of a high-performing team.
Research consistently shows that teams leveraging diverse perspectives solve problems faster, make better decisions, and are more profitable than stagnant, homogeneous groups.
Instead of finishing the course and wondering what to do next, we provide a proprietary implementation roadmap.
This plan guides you through the first 30 days of shifting your team’s culture, ensuring the frameworks you’ve learned turn into immediate, measurable changes in your team’s output.
Reviews
Surprised and not surprised by some of the information provided here. Either way, easy course to navigate, insightful, and informative.
I highly recommend this course for current leaders/supervisors or those working their way up to leadership roles. The content is presented in a logical manner and is applicable to all careers.
This course has a lot of great information to help continue grow and develop as a leader from building team accountability to celebrating diversity to identifying achievable goals and providing clear vision for the team. There is a lot of good content in this course.
I liked very much the layout of the course and how it built upon team building and how you as leader must bring out the best in the team members and hold the not performing accountable.
I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed the content of this course. I like the amount of material for each segment that provides tools to incorporate into daily work life. Beneficial to assist with identifying engaged versus disengaged employees as we navigate in a remote work environment. The is especially important for new team members and helping to increase inclusion across the team.
The concepts covered in this class are an organized and refreshed version of guidance to efficient Leadership. I found this class engaging and essential to remind us how to build and keep high performing teams, I highly recommend it.
Thank you for the preparation of this course! I really enjoyed the lesson on engaging communication. That has been a subject that I have often struggled with and this course gave some more tools that I can use leading my team.
Outstanding course. Leadership is the ability to influence others. My takeaway is about guiding and impacting outcomes, setting goals, and having a vision. Effective leaders envision what they want and how to get it. Leadership is a 24/7 full contact sport! The prize is the respect of others earned by the discipline that generate self-respect.
Dr. Arrington was engaging and very knowledgeable. The course material was easy to follow along and understand.
In my experience with online courses in the past, it was hard to feel connected and engaged during the course. Dr. Arrington’s delivery and perspectives are engaging and insightful. Looking forward to taking more courses in the future!
As someone who is a relatively new in their career with some leadership to show on paper, this course really help identify areas of improvement and outlined strategies to utilize stepping into leadership positions. Job well done Dr. Arrington!
Very timely and applicable to what you are facing today as a leader.
There are so many small aspects that Dr. Arrington spoke about that truly play a large valuable role in leadership and creating success. This course dives right into those important tidbits early on and all throughout to the end. Leaders take note of this course, Managers take note because this will get your team on the right track and bring continued success!! Thank you for the opportunity to participate.
Dr. Arrington’s course on how to manage high-performing teams is excellent and engaging. He breaks the process and requirements down regarding the development and sustainment of high-performing teams in a meaningful way. I appreciated the 30-day plan at the end so I have a roadmap to follow as I return to my team.
Dr. Arrington is always entertaining, making sure his message is delivered in a way resonates with all individuals regardless of their position on a team, leader or not. The lessons taught are short and simple in order to keep you engaged. Highly recommend!
The concepts in the Leading High Performing Teams is priceless and I will be working my implementation plan shortly. Great class and excellent teacher.
This course material was relevant for leaders and all employees; even those not in leadership could aspire to learn more about workplace participation from this course. The presentation was easy to follow, progressed quickly, and held my interest. Thank you!
Great course, it provides a lot of good information on team building focusing on high performance teams. It covers topics such as how to deal with conflict, what types of teams, including diversity and inclusion.
An excellent course, presenting a lot of useful information and tools that will help you build and transform just about any team into one that delivers consistent results.
This course was replete with tools for any manager and leader to use and implement. I believe the portion on diversity is critical. We have to focus on it in order to get our teams to the next level. Thank you David.
I often have to lead diverse teams during stressful projects. It’s not that the course teaches you brand new concepts, it’s that the course makes you think of ways to incorporate the class material into your existing leadership style or processes.
Really breaks down the process of developing a team and leading them to success. There was a lot of good advice.
Authentic, applicable to so many miserable situations I’ve observed over the decades, and well narrated by an energetic and motivating instructor. The bitesize modules made the course pleasant, repeatable and manageable while running flawlessly on my relatively old, obsolete Android handheld device.
Thank you for including topics such as Building Trust. Trust is an important element of any successful Team and is a reason why some employees begin to look for employment elsewhere when they don’t trust Leadership. And thank you for including Varied Backgrounds and Worldviews and Engaging Diversity as a topics because they are very important elements of a Team that should be considered when hiring employees. Thank you for addressing Workplace Diversity, especially as related to our unconscious biases and how they affect our cohesiveness within the Team. I learned a lot during the lesson on Creating Accountability and the role Leadership plays in accepting responsibility for mistakes made by the Team. Thank you and good luck with your book “Promotable”!
The course provides lots of practical advice and information on how to Lead a High performing Team. Don’t miss out on this great resource!
Great info! Definitely recommend for leaders at all levels of their career.
From day one this course added value to my work performance. Not only was the course informational and practical, the energy made for an exciting learning atmosphere. I was able to listen to some lessons in my car while driving and return to my computer to review the presentations and material. Great Course!
I thought this course was very valuable. I appreciated the practical examples and suggestions for leadership actions that were provided. The honest explanations and personal experience set the tone for a thoughtful and in-depth instruction on diversity. Also, the reading selections mentioned were great! Finally, the multi-platform approach for instruction was extremely helpful. Not having to be chained to my work computer allowed the experience to be less of a grind and helped to remove work distractions from pressing in.
Excellent course! Concise, relevant points that can be used right away. Looking forward to implementing some of them with my team!
This is a very well thought out course that really teaches you the right ways to lead a team. This course has to be done on your own time, but it’s worth every minute. Thank you Mr. Arrington for spreading your knowledge.
This course wraps up significant essential team leadership concepts, practices, and procedures which can be instantly applied to any team situation. They are simply stated, easy to understand, and instantly usable. The presentation is positive and upbeat. It was a pleasure to work through this course and lessons learned were incredibly valuable!
Excellent course that is extremely relatable and easy to put into action using the new tools, immediately. I intend to leverage and implement a handful of the techniques right away. Having taken other courses with Dr. David Arrington, I expected nothing less!
This course focuses on many aspects of leadership and shows how it’s not just that we get a job done. People need to be valued to get the best results. There were very good processes and tips that I will use in the future.
The strategies and guidelines of leading high-performing teams that are presented are very useful to the org.
The strategies and guidance given are some of the best I heard. The clarity and simplicity made the course amazing to me.
Dr. Arrington makes difficult material seem easy. He made several days of online material seem like nothing. I looked forward to hearing his words of wisdom in a fun and non-threatening environment. He always made himself available to answer questions and bounce ideas. Also, he practices what he preaches. Even though there were some technical difficulties, he was able to quickly resolve it and was fair about providing adequate time to complete the course to make up for the delay caused by the technical difficulties. I was sad to see this course end as he really felt like a mentor in my brain. A very worth while course to take. Valuable lessons about conflict, trust, and other important qualities every leader should have.
This course was well taught. Very easy to understand and great life values.
Dr. Arrington presented a comprehensive course with tools that can be applied to create a path to consistent, high quality performance. His energy and attitude are motivating!
This course provided practical information that can be easily applied to managing teams in the workplace and beyond.
Another outstanding course by Dr. Arrington. Truly informative and thought provoking material presented in a straightforward forward manner.
I enjoyed the content about getting to know your people in order to build a high performance team. The concepts in this course are not hard to understand, but the challenge comes with implementing them. Good course for leaders to take and learn tools that they can apply to their future endeavors.
I feel this course is full of useful information and would be helpful for first time leaders as well as a refresher course for experienced leaders.
The course is broken down into manageable lessons focused on providing guidance and understanding into what makes a high performing team. The course provides insight into the “Why” how to engage and build a high functioning team. Dr. Arrington provides real world, practical application guidance. The virtual delivery is not only thought provoking but engaging. Dr. Arrington delivers the course in three platforms catering to multiple learning styles. I would highly recommend this course to. my peers.
This course was very practical and realistic on how to lead high performing teams. Dr. Arrington Awesome Presentation, and format. I would recommend this course to my peers. The virtual course was very engaging throughout.
Thank you for providing great information.
Dr. Arrington has a way of breaking the information down so that its so easy to relate to yet keeping it on a professional level. He is a gifted teacher and speaker! Thank you so much!
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Reviews
Surprised and not surprised by some of the information provided here. Either way, easy course to navigate, insightful, and informative.
I highly recommend this course for current leaders/supervisors or those working their way up to leadership roles. The content is presented in a logical manner and is applicable to all careers.
This course has a lot of great information to help continue grow and develop as a leader from building team accountability to celebrating diversity to identifying achievable goals and providing clear vision for the team. There is a lot of good content in this course.
I liked very much the layout of the course and how it built upon team building and how you as leader must bring out the best in the team members and hold the not performing accountable.
I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed the content of this course. I like the amount of material for each segment that provides tools to incorporate into daily work life. Beneficial to assist with identifying engaged versus disengaged employees as we navigate in a remote work environment. The is especially important for new team members and helping to increase inclusion across the team.
The concepts covered in this class are an organized and refreshed version of guidance to efficient Leadership. I found this class engaging and essential to remind us how to build and keep high performing teams, I highly recommend it.
Thank you for the preparation of this course! I really enjoyed the lesson on engaging communication. That has been a subject that I have often struggled with and this course gave some more tools that I can use leading my team.
Outstanding course. Leadership is the ability to influence others. My takeaway is about guiding and impacting outcomes, setting goals, and having a vision. Effective leaders envision what they want and how to get it. Leadership is a 24/7 full contact sport! The prize is the respect of others earned by the discipline that generate self-respect.
Dr. Arrington was engaging and very knowledgeable. The course material was easy to follow along and understand.
In my experience with online courses in the past, it was hard to feel connected and engaged during the course. Dr. Arrington’s delivery and perspectives are engaging and insightful. Looking forward to taking more courses in the future!
As someone who is a relatively new in their career with some leadership to show on paper, this course really help identify areas of improvement and outlined strategies to utilize stepping into leadership positions. Job well done Dr. Arrington!
Very timely and applicable to what you are facing today as a leader.
There are so many small aspects that Dr. Arrington spoke about that truly play a large valuable role in leadership and creating success. This course dives right into those important tidbits early on and all throughout to the end. Leaders take note of this course, Managers take note because this will get your team on the right track and bring continued success!! Thank you for the opportunity to participate.
Dr. Arrington’s course on how to manage high-performing teams is excellent and engaging. He breaks the process and requirements down regarding the development and sustainment of high-performing teams in a meaningful way. I appreciated the 30-day plan at the end so I have a roadmap to follow as I return to my team.
Dr. Arrington is always entertaining, making sure his message is delivered in a way resonates with all individuals regardless of their position on a team, leader or not. The lessons taught are short and simple in order to keep you engaged. Highly recommend!
The concepts in the Leading High Performing Teams is priceless and I will be working my implementation plan shortly. Great class and excellent teacher.
This course material was relevant for leaders and all employees; even those not in leadership could aspire to learn more about workplace participation from this course. The presentation was easy to follow, progressed quickly, and held my interest. Thank you!
Great course, it provides a lot of good information on team building focusing on high performance teams. It covers topics such as how to deal with conflict, what types of teams, including diversity and inclusion.
An excellent course, presenting a lot of useful information and tools that will help you build and transform just about any team into one that delivers consistent results.
This course was replete with tools for any manager and leader to use and implement. I believe the portion on diversity is critical. We have to focus on it in order to get our teams to the next level. Thank you David.
I often have to lead diverse teams during stressful projects. It’s not that the course teaches you brand new concepts, it’s that the course makes you think of ways to incorporate the class material into your existing leadership style or processes.
Really breaks down the process of developing a team and leading them to success. There was a lot of good advice.
Authentic, applicable to so many miserable situations I’ve observed over the decades, and well narrated by an energetic and motivating instructor. The bitesize modules made the course pleasant, repeatable and manageable while running flawlessly on my relatively old, obsolete Android handheld device.
Thank you for including topics such as Building Trust. Trust is an important element of any successful Team and is a reason why some employees begin to look for employment elsewhere when they don’t trust Leadership. And thank you for including Varied Backgrounds and Worldviews and Engaging Diversity as a topics because they are very important elements of a Team that should be considered when hiring employees. Thank you for addressing Workplace Diversity, especially as related to our unconscious biases and how they affect our cohesiveness within the Team. I learned a lot during the lesson on Creating Accountability and the role Leadership plays in accepting responsibility for mistakes made by the Team. Thank you and good luck with your book “Promotable”!
The course provides lots of practical advice and information on how to Lead a High performing Team. Don’t miss out on this great resource!
Great info! Definitely recommend for leaders at all levels of their career.
From day one this course added value to my work performance. Not only was the course informational and practical, the energy made for an exciting learning atmosphere. I was able to listen to some lessons in my car while driving and return to my computer to review the presentations and material. Great Course!
I thought this course was very valuable. I appreciated the practical examples and suggestions for leadership actions that were provided. The honest explanations and personal experience set the tone for a thoughtful and in-depth instruction on diversity. Also, the reading selections mentioned were great! Finally, the multi-platform approach for instruction was extremely helpful. Not having to be chained to my work computer allowed the experience to be less of a grind and helped to remove work distractions from pressing in.
Excellent course! Concise, relevant points that can be used right away. Looking forward to implementing some of them with my team!
This is a very well thought out course that really teaches you the right ways to lead a team. This course has to be done on your own time, but it’s worth every minute. Thank you Mr. Arrington for spreading your knowledge.
This course wraps up significant essential team leadership concepts, practices, and procedures which can be instantly applied to any team situation. They are simply stated, easy to understand, and instantly usable. The presentation is positive and upbeat. It was a pleasure to work through this course and lessons learned were incredibly valuable!
Excellent course that is extremely relatable and easy to put into action using the new tools, immediately. I intend to leverage and implement a handful of the techniques right away. Having taken other courses with Dr. David Arrington, I expected nothing less!
This course focuses on many aspects of leadership and shows how it’s not just that we get a job done. People need to be valued to get the best results. There were very good processes and tips that I will use in the future.
The strategies and guidelines of leading high-performing teams that are presented are very useful to the org.
The strategies and guidance given are some of the best I heard. The clarity and simplicity made the course amazing to me.
Dr. Arrington makes difficult material seem easy. He made several days of online material seem like nothing. I looked forward to hearing his words of wisdom in a fun and non-threatening environment. He always made himself available to answer questions and bounce ideas. Also, he practices what he preaches. Even though there were some technical difficulties, he was able to quickly resolve it and was fair about providing adequate time to complete the course to make up for the delay caused by the technical difficulties. I was sad to see this course end as he really felt like a mentor in my brain. A very worth while course to take. Valuable lessons about conflict, trust, and other important qualities every leader should have.
This course was well taught. Very easy to understand and great life values.
Dr. Arrington presented a comprehensive course with tools that can be applied to create a path to consistent, high quality performance. His energy and attitude are motivating!
This course provided practical information that can be easily applied to managing teams in the workplace and beyond.
Another outstanding course by Dr. Arrington. Truly informative and thought provoking material presented in a straightforward forward manner.
I enjoyed the content about getting to know your people in order to build a high performance team. The concepts in this course are not hard to understand, but the challenge comes with implementing them. Good course for leaders to take and learn tools that they can apply to their future endeavors.
I feel this course is full of useful information and would be helpful for first time leaders as well as a refresher course for experienced leaders.
The course is broken down into manageable lessons focused on providing guidance and understanding into what makes a high performing team. The course provides insight into the “Why” how to engage and build a high functioning team. Dr. Arrington provides real world, practical application guidance. The virtual delivery is not only thought provoking but engaging. Dr. Arrington delivers the course in three platforms catering to multiple learning styles. I would highly recommend this course to. my peers.
This course was very practical and realistic on how to lead high performing teams. Dr. Arrington Awesome Presentation, and format. I would recommend this course to my peers. The virtual course was very engaging throughout.
Thank you for providing great information.
Dr. Arrington has a way of breaking the information down so that its so easy to relate to yet keeping it on a professional level. He is a gifted teacher and speaker! Thank you so much!
