UMGT 125 - Leadership

Practical tools to create an environment of goal achievement and team development. Includes motivational theory, group dynamics, personal strengths, goal setting and change management. Also includes expectation management, collaboration, factors that undermine engagement.

Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify personal strengths.
2. Evaluate factors that undermine employee motivation and engagement.
3. Diagnose team skill sets and develop a plan to build synergy and collaboration.
4. Determine team expectations and goals.
5. Facilitate team development.
6. Explore the critical aspects of change.

Outline:

Define leadership
- Ineffective position power and effective legitimate power.
- Motivating a high performing team
Assess and Build Team Performance
- Use StrengthsFinder to identify strengths
- Effective and ineffective use of strengths
- Four domains of team strength
- Individual contribution to team strength
Strategic Communication
- Identify consequences of influence that negatively impacts performance
- Tools to reverse negative expectancy cycles and create positive cycles
- Influence team behavior
- Skillful negotiation
Planning and Timely, Informed Decisions
- Organization mission, values and objectives
- Decision making models
- Innovation
- Executing the plan
Adapting to and Leading Change
- Disruption and organization response
- Credibility through practice and follow through
- Effective coaching
- Develop resiliency