Full course description
This course will help you and your team recognize and tap into the assets within the team. By the end of the course, team members will be able to:
- Articulate how personality and core values impact the work within a team.
- Identify how ideas about leadership influence their interactions with others.
- Apply the theory of how mental models are created to a personal or job-related experience.
- Use a tool to determine the level of team readiness and make plans to support the growth and productivity of the team.
This series of three courses is designed to help you discover or reaffirm your skills to collaborate effectively with colleagues on a school or district leadership team. The series includes (1) Recognizing & Using Your Assets to Build a Highly Effective Team, (2) Creating Productive, Efficient Teams, and (3) Successfully Navigating Conflict as a Team.
The overall series learning objective is to recognize ourselves as leaders and to develop skills for (1) identifying the individual assets that each team member brings to the team, (2) using protocols for increasing timely, efficient decision-making, and (3) navigating conflict successfully to make the work of the team productive for the school/district and satisfying for all team members.
You may choose to engage with the whole series or the course that will best meet your current needs.
This series or individual course will be most effective when completed simultaneously with your team members. This could be accomplished by scheduling time to move through the course together, literally in the same room at the same time, or it could be accomplished by individuals engaging with the content lessons independently and then coming together collectively for the activities, collaborative discussions, and reflection. Whichever way you choose to engage is up to you; however, the goal of this series is to increase your capacity for working with team members and there will be activities that require you to apply your learning or skills with team members.