MGMT7061 Leading High Performance Teams

Offered By	School of Mgt, Marketing & International Business
Academic Career	Graduate Coursework
Course Subject	Management
Offered in	Autumn Session, 2009 and Summer Session, 2010
Unit Value	6 units
Course Description	This is an intensive, interactive, and experiential course focusing on teams and teamwork. It is a theory-based, but highly practical approach to the subject, designed to provide students with essential skills to become effective and productive team members and leaders of teams. Proven teamwork tools, roles, and processes are introduced and used as part of the course so that participants are familiar with those they will use at work. The course is run much like a seminar or workshop. Sessions are intended to be learning laboratories, and mimic the real world as closely as possible. For our intents and purposes, the classroom is the real world. While prior or current professional work experience in teams is not essential for students' ability to contribute to and benefit from the course, much of the material with which we will be working comes from participants' day to day interaction with the real world and honest confrontation with self and others through classroom activities.
Learning Outcomes	In developing the course, special care was taken to generate learning objectives that are relevant, meaningful, practicable, and worth pursuing for individuals currently or likely to be in or lead teams. These, from the course outline, are reiterated here: Explore and critique a range of theories and perspectives on teams and teamwork. Create models of team leadership and understand the practical implications of various models and approaches. Provide a common vernacular for teams and teamwork. Introduce methods of and build skills in team-building. Develop analytical skills to assist in assessing how well (and why) teams are performing and what corresponding appropriate courses of action might be. Build practical and sustainable teamwork and collaboration skills, including problem-solving, decision-making, and Action Planning. Help students grasp the fact that there is the work of the team and there is teamwork, what the distinctions are, how both are essential, and how they relate. Provide a framework for High-Performance Teams and a strategy for achieving and sustaining high levels of performance. Provide a framework for High-Performance Teams and a strategy for achieving and sustaining high levels of performance. Provide a framework for High-Performance Teams and a strategy for achieving and sustaining high levels of performance. Foster an understanding that the team is a complex system within a larger, complex system (the organisation and broader environment) and implications of this for working in, with, and leading teams.
Indicative Assessment	Course assessment is a mix of individual and team assignments and projects, typically including: 1 team project: delivery and debrief of a team-building activity 1 team project: study and presentation on the "state of the art" of / for some aspect of teams in the organisational context 1 individual team analysis paper 1 journal article review 1 or more reflective learning journal submissions
Workload	5 x 4 hour class, 2x 8 hour class(not per week, entire term)
Course Classification(s)	TransitionalTransitional courses are designed for students from a broad range of backgrounds and learning achievements, which provide for the acquisition of generic skills; or an informed understanding of contemporary issues; or fundamental knowledge for transition to Advanced or Specialist courses.
Areas of Interest	Management
Eligibility	At least an average of 65% (or equivalent) in the final two years of an Australian undergraduate degree and 3 years professional work experience since graduation.
Prescribed Texts	See Course Website: http://teaching.fec.anu.edu.au/MGMT7061/
Preliminary Reading	See Course Website: http://teaching.fec.anu.edu.au/MGMT7061/
Indicative Reading List	See Course Website: http://teaching.fec.anu.edu.au/MGMT7061/
Programs	Graduate Certificate in Management, Master of Business Administration, and Master of Management
Other Information	For further information please refer to http://ecocomm.anu.edu.au/courses/course.asp?code=MGMT7061
Academic Contact	See http://ecocomm.anu.edu.au/courses/course.asp?code=MGMT7061

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