Why choose this course?

My name is Agnieszka Piekarzewska - you can call me Agness - and I work at the WSB University in Poznań. Please join me in the course of "Team Work Efficiency and Project Team Management". In this course I will guide you through the knowledge you need in order to be an effective team member in contemporary organisations. See you soon!

Teamwork Efficiency. Course description:

Teamwork has always been an essential capability for successful enterprises. Effective teamwork takes good problem-solving, decision-making, communication and interpersonal skills. The students will get acquainted with the best practices in team formation, working on a team, leading teams and managing multiple teams. The course also covers more specialized topics, such as working in virtual teams, team communications, working through team dynamics, and tips and traps in managing teams.

Teamwork

Content

  • Characteristics of effective teams and teamwork
  • Elements of successful teamwork, 
  • Purpose and types of teams, the reasons why organizations use teams, nature of team success and characteristics of successful teams
  • Team processes motivation, social loafing, group cohesion, team roles, tasks and social behaviours
  • Cooperation and competition, the reasons why people in a team are competitive, problems with competition and benefits of cooperation
  • Leading self-managing teams, team diversity, effects of diversity and virtual teamwork 
  • Evaluating and rewarding teams, team performance evaluations and reward systems
  • Team building and team training, types of teambuilding programmes and types of team training
  • Effective teamwork in the workplace.

Learning outcomes. Completing the course allows students to:

create an effective team
use techniques to help speed up team development and improve performance
apply the knowledge of leading teams and virtual teams and select methods and strategies for use by the team
use the functional approach to leading teams
explain team processes like team roles, team motivation, power and social influence, team cohesion, cooperation and competition in teams
define and explain personal skills necessary to organize, evaluate and reward teams

Project Team Management. Course description:

The purpose of the "Project Team Management" course is to effectively explain the mechanisms behind project building and management. During the course, the participants will learn how to recruit a team using modern methods, co-create organizational culture, and identify team members by differences and roles in the team. Afterwards, they will learn how to take care of team motivation and well-being, as well as the principles of conflict management and talent management.

Teamwork

Content

  • Team building 
  • Team member recruitment issues
  • Understanding and developing organizational culture 
  • Team member characteristics. Team Roles 
  • Employee Motivation. Your team’s well-being
  • Conflict Management 
  • Talent Management 
  • Learning & Development. Knowledge management.

Learning outcomes. Completing the course allows students to:

identify phases of team development
define the elements of organizational culture
identify group roles and their impact on the project
identify motivators and demotivators in the organization
identify strategies for resolving conflicts in a project
define the organization's talent strategy
Identify element of Learning & Develpment, with focus on talent management and knowledge management
match team roles expectations to each phase of team development
identify success factors in multicultural project teams
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