Go Deeper with Certificate Programs
Take your leadership skills further with a certificate program:
What You'll Get
Introduction
Watch a sneak peek
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From Superpowers to Great Teams—A sneak peek of the course
3 Video Lessons
- Making Work Work—The three key ingredients
- Doing Great Work—Putting people at the center
- Doing Great Work—It starts with you
1 Assignment
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Reflect on Your Best Work: Thriving—as individuals, duos, teams, and as an entire company—starts with you. It starts with identifying and activating the best in yourself.
Lesson 1: Superpowers
3 Video Lessons
- Your Superpower—What were you put on Earth to do?
- What’s Your Superpower?—Stories of how they show up
- Your Superpower in Action—Using power wisely
1 Article
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Explore the Superpowers— Click through the gallery to explore all the superpowers.
1 Assignment
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Identify Your Superpowers—It's time to identify your superpowers. The Superpowers Card Sort is a quick, fun way to put a name to the things you do best—naturally, skillfully, and joyfully.
2 Activities
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Get to Know Your Superpower—Your superpower is the unique contribution you bring to your work, your team, and your life. This activity will help you zero in on that superpower.
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Make Your Superpower Plan—Awareness is just the beginning. Take action to amplify your superpower and mitigate its shadow side.
Lesson 2: Dynamic Duos
Watch a sneak peek
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Building Strong Bonds
3 Video Lessons
- Dynamic Duos—The power of two
- Building Strong Bonds—The smallest atomic unit of trust
- Triggers—Using empathy to strengthen relationships
3 Activities
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Map Your Duos—Build awareness of your core duos and search for patterns across them.
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Reflect on Triggers—More deeply understand your broken duos.
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Build Stronger Duos—Develop a plan to make your relationships more resilient.
Lesson 3: Great Teams
2 Video Lessons
- Ensembles—Six qualities of great teams
- Ensembles—Creating conditions for great teams
2 Assignments
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Assess Your Team—Take a pulse check of where you currently are as a group.
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Share Your Ritual—By sharing your ritual ideas with other learners, we hope to inspire more people to take agency in strengthening their teams and organizations.
Conclusion
1 Video Lesson
- Final Thoughts—Start small, start now
1 Activity
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Make a Plan of Action—Make a plan incorporating small steps you'll take to show up as your best self, strengthen your relationships, or set up your team to thrive.
1 Assignment
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What's the one thing you'll take away from this course? Maybe it's a quote or piece of advice or framework. How will you use it to design your business? Or, how have you started to use it already?
Meet Your Instructors
Keith Yamashita
SYPartners Chairman and Founder
Keith works with companies including Apple, IBM, Nike, and Starbucks to bring unique, human-centered approaches to business and social challenges. He is an author, essayist, and lecturer on leadership and design. He holds degrees in organizational behavior and economics from Stanford University.
Keith Yamashita
SYPartners Chairman and Founder
For the past two decades, Keith has led SYPartners, working with leaders at companies including Apple, eBay, IBM, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Facebook, Nike, OWN, and Starbucks to bring unique, human-centered approaches to business and social challenges. From 2009 to 2011, Keith served as The Charles and Ray Eames Brand Fellow at IBM, working to build a culture of design across the organization. He is also an author and essayist on leadership and design, with articles in the Harvard Business Review and several journals. Keith has lectured at the Yale School of Management, Stanford Business School, and the Jack F. Welch Leadership Center, and was an on-air commentator with Maria Bartiromo on the Business of Innovation. Keith holds an MA in organizational behavior and a BA in quantitative economics from Stanford University.
Sara Kalick
Former Vice President, SYPartners
At SYPartners, Sara worked with clients including American Express, Planned Parenthood, Huawei, and Girl Effect to set bold visions and strategies and achieve their potential. She also helped develop a new SYPartners product, Leadfully, for emerging leaders. Sara holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from ESADE Business School.
Sara Kalick
Former Vice President, SYPartners
As a leader in SYPartners' consulting practice, Sara worked with clients to set bold visions and strategies and achieve their potentials. Her clients included Swisscom, American Express, Planned Parenthood, Huawei, Girl Effect, and Kohl's. As Managing Strategy Director in New York, Sara focused her coaching and mentorship skills to deepen SYPartners' bench of strategy leadership. In 2015, Sara began developing a new SYPartners product, Leadfully, which helps emerging leaders everywhere be their best selves. Sara holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from ESADE Business School.
Deepen Your Learning
Downloadable Workbook
Superpowers Cards
Ritual Cards
Certificate of Completion
FAQs
We offer three types of courses: self-paced courses, cohort courses, and certificate programs. On-demand courses allow you to start, learn, and finish a course completely on your own schedule. Since courses are on-demand, there's no community experience of going through the material with other learners at the same time. There is no teaching team providing feedback on your submissions.
Cohort courses run on a set calendar with fixed start and end dates. You will be learning alongside other learners, but still have the flexibility to work at a pace that fits your own schedule—there aren't mandatory live components. In cohort courses, you'll have access to a teaching team who will answer your questions and give feedback on your assignments throughout the course. Self-paced courses allow you to start, learn, and finish a course completely on your own schedule. Since courses are on-demand, there's no community experience of going through the material with other learners. In on-demand courses, there is no teaching team providing feedback on your submissions.
Upon completing a course, the certificate and digital badge for the course will automatically become available to you on your profile page within 24 hours. There, you can view your certificate, download it, and access your Credly badge. We've partnered with Credly, a leading digital credentialing platform, to provide learners with a digital badge that they can share on social media, email signatures, or add to their LinkedIn profiles or resumes.
IDEO U courses are not currently eligible for university credit.
You'll need a stable internet connection and a device (computer, tablet, or phone) with a modern web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge. Some course activities may work better on a computer than a mobile device. You'll also need to be able to view videos, which requires a browser that supports HTML5 video.
Once you enroll in a course, you can access it by logging into your IDEO U account at ideou.com and clicking on your profile icon in the upper right corner. Then click on "My Courses" to see all of your enrolled courses. Click on the course you want to access to go to the course page. Your courses are always available in your account, even after the course end date.
We offer refunds for on-demand courses if you haven't accessed the course content yet. If you've accessed the course content, we are unable to provide a refund. To process a refund, contact us.
Yes, we do! We offer group pricing when you purchase 5 or more seats for the same course. Contact us at learner-success@ideou.com to get a quote.
Loved by Learners Across the Globe
From Superpowers to Great Teams
“The skills taught in this course need to be taught to everyone. The way we work is changing and those who embrace the change will be the ones with not just great teams but with individuals who aren't just performing at their best but who have superpowers they know how to use.”
From Superpowers to Great Teams
“It forced me to think of people and my relationships in a way that I wouldn't have otherwise. It wasn't always comfortable but that's why it was meaningful.”
From Superpowers to Great Teams
“I've enjoyed the self-paced courses and think of them as a way to remember and reinvigorate my skill-set. They're beautifully executed as well.”
From Superpowers to Great Teams
“Great experience, lovely learning interfaces for virtual on demand learning, and nicely produced videos.”
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