University of Sydney
Leading Tech-enabled Teams Sprint
- Delivery: Online
- Study Level: Advanced
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Course Type: Short Course
- Total Price: $1,345
Learn how to build and lead high-performing teams that use tech effectively.
Course overview
The leading tech-enabled teams' sprint equips leaders with frameworks and practical tools to navigate hybrid work, integrate AI effectively and build high-performing distributed teams. Thinking through real-world scenarios and hands-on exercises, you’ll discover how to balance autonomy with accountability, visibility with trust and technology with human connection.
Over four modules, you’ll explore strategies from leading experts and develop practical approaches for your team. These include hybrid team design, digital tool implementation and role structuring whilst building resilient, effective teams in environments shaped by rapid technological change.
The sprint includes an applied project where you'll create practical interventions tailored to your own organisational context.
Course highlights
- Build a strategic understanding of contemporary leadership challenges in hybrid and knowledge work environments.
- Apply principles for effective team coordination, visibility and role design.
- Distinguish between activity- and outcome-oriented work and structure teams accordingly.
- Identify risks and opportunities in digital tool adoption, including the use of AI and shadow IT.
- Design practical interventions to improve the performance and resilience of their teams.
- Complete an applied project aligned with their own organisational context.
- Receive the USYD digital badge, a credential recognising leadership in modern team environments.
Key facts
What you will study
The sprint combines asynchronous learning with live interactive sessions. Online modules include video content featuring University of Sydney Business School faculty and Microsoft experts, additional readings, a practical workbook and cohort discussions. Each module builds toward a final project where you’ll design a tech-enabled strategy for your own team, incorporating the principles and tools explored throughout the sprint.
Introduction and foundations
Modern teams face unprecedented challenges: geographic dispersion, cultural diversity and the integration of AI tools. This module establishes the foundations for leading in this complex environment. You’ll explore different hybrid work models from traditional office-centric approaches to fully distributed teams and understand their trade-offs. We’ll examine how AI is reshaping teamwork and introduce seven core principles for balancing flexibility with effectiveness, autonomy with support and technology with human judgement.
What you will learn
- Evaluate leadership approaches to hybrid and knowledge work environments, with a focus on outcome orientation.
- Apply principles of effective role design to support clarity, collaboration and flow.
- Assess the use of digital tools and AI in team settings, identifying risks and opportunities to enhance team effectiveness.
- Design a leadership intervention that addresses a real-world team challenge.
How will you learn
This course will be delivered online via self-paced modules and three live sessions over two weeks.
Materials
All course materials are provided electronically. Before the course begins, you will receive an email from Sydney Executive Plus with all the instructions you need to access the course materials and communications platforms.
Who should attend
Experienced managers and senior leaders across knowledge work and professional services sectors who are leading teams in complex, fast-paced environments and looking to enhance team performance whilst adapting to contemporary ways of working.
Who You Will Learn From
Dr Daniel Schlagwein
Professor of Digital Work and Organisation
The University of Sydney Business School
Dr Daniel Schlagwein leads the Digital Future(s) Research Group at The University of Sydney and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology. A global authority on digital work and nomadism, his research and industry insights have been featured in Wired, McKinsey Quarterly, and the Australian Financial Review. Daniel advises organisations and governments worldwide on digital transformation and the future of work.
Dr Maegan Baker
Strategy and Innovation Expert
The University of Sydney Business School
Dr Maegan Baker is a strategist and cross-sector leader with over 15 years’ experience across government, higher education and the not-for-profit sector. Formerly Director of Partnerships at NSW’s Advanced Manufacturing Readiness Facility, she specialises in partnership development, process improvement and human-centred design. Maegan holds a PhD in Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship and is passionate about building transparent, accountable and high-trust tech-enabled teams.
Baker Tamory
Senior Go To Market Manager, Data & Al
Microsoft Australia & New Zealand
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