MGT 130: Understanding People, Building Teams

This session is divided into three modules:

What Kind of Leader Are You?
An overview of what it means to be a leader / manager.
-Transitioning from peer to boss
-Leadership characteristics
-Leadership styles

Cultural Competency: Managing a Diverse Workforce
Diversity includes race, age, sexual orientation, cultural differences – where do you even begin? The reality is that moving beyond a diversity focus for legal reasons to an inclusion focus can result in multiple perspectives with an enormous positive impact on your organization, its employees, and its constituents.
-Diversity in today’s workforce: what’s required, what’s desirable
-How to deal with different motivations for different people
-Diversity is not just different cultures
-Going beyond diversity to an inclusion focus
-Move from conflict to optimizing cultural differences

Building Your Team
Putting together an effective team may be the most challenging – and difficult - thing you do as a supervisor.
-Building your team
-The basics of teamwork
-Reaching out to others in your organization to ensure alignment with your team

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