Course: MGMT401
Section: 1F08
Date: Not Yet Scheduled
Location: Fogelman College of Business, Education Suite – Room 385
Program Fees: $695 per individual; 10% discount for 3 or more registrations from the same organization
Enroll online: Not Yet Scheduled

This two-day program teaches participants how to initiate, develop and maintain high performance teams utilizing exercises, self-analyses tools, discussion and mini-lectures. This highly interactive module will teach participants how to transform a bad team into a good team; a good team into a high performance team.

Topics Covered in the Program Include:

• The difference between groups and teams: When are they appropriate?
• The characteristics of high performance teams
• How team communication differs from one-on-one communication
• Team member roles and participation: How to get individuals to do what they do best
• Team performance killers and how to avoid them: Groupthink and the Abilene Paradox
• Team synergy: Creating a learning-oriented team

Who Should Attend?

Individuals holding positions across all levels of organizational hierarchies, including non-management professionals whose job it is to get work accomplished with and through peers and colleagues who are part of their work teams. This leadership program would be especially appropriate for lower and mid-level managers aspiring to move up the hierarchy, director level managers who have gained experience but feel a need for more formal leadership education, supervisors who aspire to managerial positions, small business owners and non-profit managers who must motivate volunteers.

Faculty: Bob Taylor, Ph.D.

Dr. Taylor is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Management in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at The University of Memphis. He teaches in the MBA, Executive MBA, and International MBA programs at the U of M, and has been an invited instructor at the University of Lethbridge, Canada, The University of Eichstadt, Germany and at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. He has written extensively in a number of management areas and published a management textbook entitled Management: Comprehension, Analysis, and Application. He won the UM Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992 and has been a consultant/trainer for numerous local and national companies and organizations since 1980.