Teamwork and Leading Organizations

3 units

Skillfully contributing to, building, and leading collaborative efforts-from small project based teams to larger functions and divisions-will enable you to have an impact throughout your career. The purpose of this course is to lay a foundation of interpersonal skills and systems thinking that will enable you to differentiate yourself as a valued-adding member and leader of organizations. The specific learning objectives for this course are to develop your skills as a contributor to and leader of project-based teams. This includes sharpening your understanding of the core elements of team design and how leaders and team members alike can promote effective team processes. Develop your skills as a leader in and of organizations. This comprises being able to architect a system-its structure, work design, culture, and people management practices-to execute a given strategy, within a given environment. At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to independently transfer your learning to design, launch, and lead project-based teams in a manner that (a) meets or exceeds stakeholder's expectations for task performance; (b) contributes to the growth of individual team members; and, (c) leaves team members willing to work together again in the future; systematically analyze an organization's architecture, assessing its internal congruence and its utility for executing a given strategic approach, either when engaged in early organizational design (e.g., scaling a start-up team) or when diagnosing the reasons for unsatisfactory organizational performance.