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Course: Leading Teams (NC-MEDGLDGTMS)
Leading a team through any task or project requires special skills, and an understanding of the team dynamic and politics. This introductory-level course for managers or anyone interested in leading teams, addresses the key issues surrounding leadership in a team environment. Why is leadership important to team success? What is required of a team leader to lead his team effectively? This course considers how team leaders must account for the special and unique circumstances of working in a team, where responsibility, accountability, communication, and leadership are shared.
Learning Outcomes
- List and identify the key characteristics and types of teams
- Recognize the benefits and challenges of empowered teams that leaders need to be aware of
- Identify differences in the primary and secondary roles filled by empowered teams and team leaders
- Recognize the key sources of motivation for empowered teams
- Explain Tuckman's model of team development
- Recognize the key qualities and skills of a team leader
- State the value of using the "checklist for team leaders"
- Recognize and apply suggested approaches for managing conflict in teams
- Discuss the different approaches needed for leading virtual teams
- Estimated time to completion: 5 hours
- Access time: 90 days
- CEUs: 0.5
- Contact hours: 5
- May earn 0.5 IACET CEUs and/or 5 ATD CI credits and/or 5 HRCI credits and/or5 SHRM PDCs. Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 70% to qualify for IACET CEUs.
Offered in partnership with MindEdge.