Building Inclusive Teams

Catalog description

Being a trustworthy individual contributor while learning to be a collaborative team member is essential for professional and personal success in today’s diverse and global environment. In this course, students will develop and practice intrapersonal and interpersonal skills necessary for successful team membership and leadership. Through exploring and developing appreciation for multiple perspectives, values, attitudes, and behaviors of self and others, students will further learn communication skills related to listening, conflict resolution, feedback, motivation, and change management. Dynamics and power structures inherent in different types of work groups will also be recognized. Through applied team learning, students will develop skills to influence and support effective team development and collaboration that includes all individuals in a manner that brings historically excluded persons into team processes, activities, and decision-making.