LEADING TEAMS

MHR 401

Examines components that comprise teams, highlights key factors that influence team effectiveness, develops skills in diagnosing opportunities and threats that face teams, and enhances teamwork expertise.

EPD 710

Build the foundations for developing, refining, and strengthening your effectiveness as a leader of engineering teams, projects, and organizations. Enhance your understanding of how to match your leadership style to a team's focus, organization, and culture. Grow your understanding of your strengths and weaknesses as a leader using proven assessment tools. Develop a plan for growing your leadership competency.

EPD/GENBUS/MHR 785

Improves students' negotiating skills, doing so by providing a theoretical underpinning that will help them to understand the sources of effective and ineffective approaches to negotiations.

MHR 706

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.

EPD 606

Key team management concepts, principles, and practices. Team dynamics, team roles, leading and facilitating teamwork, and managing team conflict in the context of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)-related work.