LEADING TEAMS

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.

MHR 412

Offers an understanding of fundamental principles, methods, and tools used in management consulting and develop skills to diagnose the functioning of an organization, problem solving, and to design and implement interventions to enhance individual, group, and organizational effectiveness.

MILSCI 202

Study examines how to build successful teams, various methods for influencing action, effective communication in setting and achieving goals, the importance of timing the decision, creativity in the problem solving process and obtaining team buy-in through immediate feedback.

MHR 700

Management of people and organizations, exploring concepts that will be valuable as a current employee or a future employee, manager, or leader. Concepts will be discussed at the individual, group or team, and the organizational level. Key organizational behavior topics include: diversity, attitude and job satisfaction, emotions, personality and value, individual and group decision making, motivation, teams, leadership, influence, strategy, organizational structure and culture, and change management.

EPD/GENBUS/MHR 783

Students will gain the knowledge and skills to continuously enhance their own team performance and productivity as well as the teams they are involved with. They will also be in a much better position to lead teams effectively.