Leading Groups and Teams

All teams are groups, but not all groups truly function as teams. Successful organizational leaders recognize the differences and are adept at strategically creating diverse groups and teams to accomplish organizational goals. This course offers applied leadership strategies addressing the various types of teams, principles of team behavior, strategies for avoiding team dysfunction, effective team leadership, and leveraging interpersonal strategies and organizational resources to ensure collaboration, synergy, and effectiveness.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Evaluate the impact of organizational context and resources on team leadership and performance
• Determine team composition, roles and responsibilities, and decision-making processes to ensure effective team leadership and business execution
• Utilize proven leadership strategies to cultivate team norms which empower team members to harness the power of diversity, safely express divergent opinions, and work interdependently
• Lead the development of a team culture using strengths, weaknesses, and talents of individual team members to create team synergy and interdependence
• Implement specific leadership tactics to prevent and mitigate team dysfunction