LDR 2440 - Leading Teams

Credits: 4

Evaluating and transferring knowledge in team-based environments with diverse groups of employees can be challenging. Leaders need to adapt their practices for working across multicultural, multi-gendered, multi-racial, multi-abled employees and collaborators, as well as across national borders. This course will expose students to theories of team leadership and help them develop tools for sharing knowledge in an effective way. Measuring team effectiveness is difficult for team-based leadership because a majority of team tasks within organizations are not quantifiable. Some of the criteria which can be used to measure teams’ tasks are: Output from teams should meet or exceed expectations; collaborative efforts among team members should enhance the capabilities of other team members; the team experience should satisfy the personal needs of team members.