The Art and Practice of Team Leadership University of Manitoba

Overview

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this The Art and Practice of Team Leadership course at the University of Manitoba, you should be able to:

• facilitate team development that includes enhancing collaborative workplaces and creating organizational environments that foster learning
• identify the necessary skills for the exercise of team leadership
• assess your impact on others, based on differences in personal profiles and by actively soliciting feedback
• adapt personal leadership style, using your emotional intelligence, to support effective team functioning
• apply relevant concepts of team development (including systems thinking) to promote team learning, creative reflection, collaboration, interaction, and performance
• demonstrate awareness of team roles (leaders and followers, shared leadership) and flexibility in role assumption within a team to improve group functioning
• apply the Lencioni model of team leadership to improve group functioning
• describe methods to transform relationships among team members, including generating trust, constructing and communicating shared meaning and commitment, and mutual accountability
• apply appropriate frameworks for helping teams to observe, assess, and learn from group performance