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Building and Leading Effective Teams

3-1-0 units · Graduate

An intensive one-week introduction to leadership, teams, and learning communities. Introduction of concepts and use of a variety of experiential exercises to develop individual and team skills and develop supportive relationships within the Fellows class. Restricted to first-year Leaders for Global Operations students.

Summer 2005

Topics

  • Introduction to Universe Within
  • Lunch with LFM Staff
  • Teams and Team Work
  • Break
  • Movie: Dead Poets’ Society
  • Close of Day
  • Leadership Skills
  • Improving Performance: Seeing and Listening, Advocacy and Inquiry
  • Lunch
  • Team Process and Composition
  • Team Performance Model
  • Innovation and Change: Outward Bound on Thompson Island
  • Team Roles
  • Team Performance
  • Leaders and Teams
  • Leadership as Vision and Values
  • Building a Learning Community
  • Leadership Development Self-assessment
  • Check-out and Feedback
  • Close of Universe Within
  • Individual and Group Photo Session (Business Attire, Meet in LFM Offices)
  • Pizza Party

Readings

  • Senge, Peter M., Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, and Bryan Smith. “The Ladder of Inference.” In The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook . New York, NY: Currency Publishers, pp. 242-250. ISBN: 0385472560.
    Listed reading
  • Senge, Peter. The Fifth Discipline . New York, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1994, pp. 200-201. ISBN: 0385260954.
    Listed reading
  • Carroll, John, and Sachi Hatakenaka. “Driving Organizational Change in the Midst of Crisis.” MIT Sloan Management Review 42, no. 3 (Spring 2001): 70-79.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: None G (Summer) 3-1-0 units

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