LDR504 Developing Dynamic Teams
Organizations are increasingly realizing the need for a team orientation, yet, despite the rhetoric, there remain significant cultural impediments to team development and maintenance. This course leads students in an application of group and team theory for recruiting, developing, mobilizing, and mending teams of employees and volunteers for maximum effectiveness.
Credits: 3
Student learning outcomes
- Apply an understanding of group development and dynamics in determining needs for HR interventions.
- Recruit, assemble, and mobilize a team formed around needed skills rather than existing positions.
- Assess potential team members for alignment with organizational values and vision.
- Identify existing and potential abilities and personal resources available in a team.
- Facilitate the development of those assets for maximum benefit to the holder of the resources, to others in their environment, and to the organization.
- Establish an environment conducive to the organizational members becoming an effective team and leads in a manner that promotes the emergence of such a team.
- Predict potential conflicts attached to various team models and produce appropriate interventions.