Gain an understanding of the natural role you play on a team based on your behavior style. Identify typical challenges that teams encounter and discover ways to overcome these challenges.

Gain an understanding of what it means to function as a cohesive team. Examine team dysfunction and then learn how to motivate, empower, and engage a team to take ownership and drive results.

Learn about your identity and about the identities and experiences of others. Create a Brave Space for honest dialogue.

Explore the emotions associated with change initiatives and determine the vital behaviors that make change successful. Diagnose resistance and apply sources of influence to any change initiative.

Gain an understanding of what it means to function as a cohesive team. Examine team dysfunction and then learn how to motivate, empower, and engage a team to take ownership and drive results.

Collaboration is simply teamwork taken to a higher level. In this class we will examine opportunities for collaboration across UVA, barriers to collaboration, and key behaviors of successful collaborators.

Discuss the common barriers in giving positive and constructive feedback to others. Analyze a feedback framework that can be utilized to deliver highly effective feedback.

Identify the skills necessary to lead an effective meeting as a participant, as well as a leader. Practice constructing an agenda and planning your next team meeting.

Explore the notion that organizational change is inseparable from individual change. Learn to lead a group (large or small) in a new direction.

Discuss racial identity as a way to understand unearned privilege. Examine personal experience and develop a deeper understanding of diversity of inclusion.