Leadership IQ · Online certificate courses
Team Players Unlocked
Recognize the strengths your team needs—and put them to work.
- Format
- Online · self-paced
- Duration
- 4 weeks
- Weekly commitment
- ~1.5 hours
Inside the course
Build a balanced team, not just a collection of talented people.
Effective teams need different ways of thinking and contributing. This four-week course introduces the five roles found in high-performing teams and shows you how to spot missing voices, improve decisions, and make meetings more productive.
- Identify the five team roles and the strengths people naturally bring.
- Build a better balance of contributions across your team.
- Reduce groupthink and apply the roles to decisions, meetings, and everyday work.
For team leaders, managers, and professionals responsible for improving how a team works together.
Week by week
What you’ll learn
Week 01The Five Roles That Make or Break Your Team
The Five Roles That Make or Break Your Team
Your team struggles not because people lack skills or trust—but because you're missing critical roles that no amount of team building can fix. Based on research with thousands of teams, this module reveals why 97% of high-performing teams share the same five-role structure, while traditional "dream teams" consistently fail.
- Research showing 97% of top teams have this structure (while only 21% of failing teams do)
- The five essential roles every team needs to function at peak performance
- The Director: Why they tap their pen impatiently in meetings (and the "elbow point" principle)
- The Achiever: The psychological reason they'd rather perfect the work than lead the meeting
- The Stabilizer: Why they're always worried about risks others ignore
- The Harmonizer: How they read a room's emotional temperature in seconds
- The Trailblazer: The brain wiring that makes them see opportunities where others see disaster
- The body language that instantly reveals each role before they even speak
- Why superstar-heavy teams underperform according to Harvard's analysis
Week 02Curating A Perfectly Balanced Team
Curating A Perfectly Balanced Team
Stop trying to clone your top performers—start curating a balanced team where everyone plays to their strengths. This module provides the exact tools and techniques to assess your team's role composition, develop missing capabilities, and achieve the optimal mix that research shows drives performance.
- The assessment technique that's twice as accurate as traditional personality tests
- Why star performers' productivity drops 20% when they change teams
- The mathematically optimal team composition for an 8-person group
- How to identify which role each person naturally fills using meta-perception
- The conversation script for asking someone to switch roles gracefully
- Which role switches feel natural vs. forced
- The "Greek mask" reframe that makes role changes feel like growth
- The visual mapping technique that makes role gaps undeniable in 10 minutes
- Emergency protocols for when a crucial role-holder leaves suddenly
Week 03Decision Velocity—Eliminating Groupthink and Meeting Waste
Decision Velocity—Eliminating Groupthink and Meeting Waste
Your team doesn't need more trust exercises—it needs a decision-making system that prevents the conformity bias affecting 75% of teams. This module delivers battle-tested techniques that triple idea quality, cut meeting time by 17 minutes, and ensure every voice contributes.
- The 10-minute pre-meeting technique that triples idea quality
- Why 75% of people knowingly give wrong answers in groups
- The one-sentence tool that cuts meeting time by 17 minutes on average
- How subtle body language creates "spirals of silence" that kill innovation
- The framework Amazon uses to delegate 80% of decisions safely
- Four debrief questions proven to boost team performance 20%
- The "herding effect" technique for surfacing minority viewpoints
- How to detect hidden groupthink using meeting transcripts and AI
- Why written input beats verbal brainstorming every single time
Week 04Advanced Applications—Roles in the Real World
Advanced Applications—Roles in the Real World
The five-role framework transforms under real-world pressure: remote teams struggle to read role cues, crisis situations demand instant role flexibility, and AI tools can now simulate missing perspectives with surprising accuracy. This module tackles the messy realities of modern teams.
- Why remote teams lose 40% of role clarity (and the three fixes that restore it)
- How to use AI to simulate your missing roles
- Building role coverage like a Broadway show
- The 48-hour protocol for temporary teams to establish all five roles
- Why flat organizations still have hidden hierarchies
- Cross-functional identity crisis solutions
- The succession planning mistake 80% of companies make
- Using AI to analyze which roles dominate your Slack channels
- The 5-minute conversation that reveals someone's true role before hiring
Schedule & participation
Learn on your schedule. Finish with a certificate.
- Starts
- November 16, 2026
- Complete by
- December 13, 2026
- Weekly commitment
- ~1.5 hours
Study when it suits your schedule. Complete the required coursework by the deadline to earn your certificate.
Coursework, access, and certificate requirements
Course Logistics
📅 STARTING THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 16TH
Take 1 course per week for 4 weeks on your own schedule—no required login times. Each week includes a video course, one assignment, and a brief quiz. Expect around 1.5 hours per week total.
🕐 ON YOUR SCHEDULE
On Friday, November 13th, each participant will receive an email with their login information to access the course. Work ahead or fall behind as needed, but ALL MODULES, ASSIGNMENTS AND QUIZZES MUST BE COMPLETED BY 11:59 PM (PST) ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13TH. Certificates will not be issued if coursework is incomplete by the deadline.
👥 GROUP DISCOUNTS
We offer GROUP DISCOUNTS for groups from the same organization. For custom group pricing, simply contact Jill Sutherland (Director of Client Services) at jill@leadershipiq.com
🏆 YOUR CERTIFICATE
Once you've successfully completed the course, you'll get your CERTIFICATE to showcase your mastery. It looks great on your LinkedIn profile!
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