LEADING AND WORKING IN TEAMS
Examines team dynamics, highlights key factors that influence team effectiveness, develops skills in diagnosing opportunities and threats that face teams, and enhances teamwork expertise. The content is applicable to projects across specializations. For instance, teamwork skills are essential to project teams developing new products/services, working on business strategy, implementing process improvements, designing new financial investment instruments, and developing real estate. In any of these projects, employees would work as a team to accomplish their goals. The team's success or failure will depend, to a large extent, on how the team members work together.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Declared in a Master of Business Administration degree program Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze team dynamics to identify barriers and facilitators of effective team functioning and performance. Audience: Graduate 2. Explain the effectiveness of various leadership strategies and styles in shaping team outcomes. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply creativity and communication techniques to enhance team collaboration and problem-solving in real-world scenarios. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze team dynamics to identify barriers and facilitators of effective team functioning and performance. Audience: Graduate 2. Explain the effectiveness of various leadership strategies and styles in shaping team outcomes. Audience: Graduate 3. Apply creativity and communication techniques to enhance team collaboration and problem-solving in real-world scenarios. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027