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    Aug 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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MNGT 294 Leading Teams Through Innovation and Change (5 credits)



Course Description
Students will develop skill sets needed for leading teams and organization through uncertainty – the norm of today’s business environment. These skill sets are relevant for leaders in project, entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship settings.

Course Content
a. Leadership
b. Motivation
c. Strategic Planning
d. Facilitate Change
e. Conflict Management
f. Workplace Diversity
g. Team Development
h. Problem Solving and Decision Making
i. High-Level Trust
j. Ethics
h. Teams
i. Change management

Student Outcomes
1. Explain and apply leadership principles to effectively meet organizational goals.

2. Describe and analyze how emotional intelligence impacts leadership effectiveness.

3. Describe and analyze how power dynamics, organizational politics affect organizational growth.

4. Apply and analyze organizational learning strategies to improve organizational performance.

5. Describe and apply effective negotiation strategies to ethically meet organizational goals.

6. Apply conflict management and negotiation techniques to solve organizational challenges.

7. Apply and analyze team building, operation, and behavior strategies and factors that influence team effectiveness.

8. Apply and analyze cross-functional and cross-cultural communication strategies to facilitate effective team development.

9. Apply and analyze effective coaching and team development strategies through innovation and change.

10. Apply critical and innovative thinking skills to improve decision-making processes within teams and across organizations to meet organizational goals.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: ABPO 2: Teamwork and Collaboration: Work effectively within and across groups/teams to achieve common goals. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
1. Case study
2. Essay exam
3. Instructor observation
4. Journal
5. Objective exams including multiple choice, true/false and matching
6. Oral presentation
7. Paper
8. Peer-evaluation
9. Portfolio
10. Project which includes individual and/or group projects
11. Self-evaluation
12. Simulation which may include a role-play or learning lab



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