Extended Education

The Art and Practice of Team Leadership (LDRS 0540)

This course will focus on a systems thinking approach to team learning and team leadership. It will encourage a systemic perspective to ensure organic communication with the immediate organizational environment and knowledge of influences of the environment on the team. It also aims at fostering appreciation of shared leadership in teamwork and its relevance in the context of current organizational demands. Learners will develop understanding of five critical principles that promote or stand in the way of effective teamwork and team leadership. At an applied level, learners will learn to express themselves authentically and with clarity so they can learn from each other. It will offer concrete ways to increase awareness, choices, and freedom with all the personal integrity, responsibility, and accountability those ideas imply. Specific tools will be offered for building enduring relationships and develop greater trust in groups and teams.

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    Course length

    36 contact hours

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    Format

    Online

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    Course fees

    $800
    Pricing subject to change without notice

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Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this course, 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 

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Extended Education
185 Extended Education Complex
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

extended@umanitoba.ca
204-474-8800
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