Columbia business school: Building & Leading Effective Teams | A course to look into

Dec. 9, 2021

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Building & Leading Effective Teams Harnessing your team’s collective intellectual and creative power will help you seize new business opportunities. Building and Leading Effective Teams, led by Bill Klepper, Professor of Management at Columbia Business School, empowers you to maximize the potential of your team to generate better decision-making, increase productivity and innovation, develop relationships and team solidarity, and generate broad organizational support for your initiatives. You will better understand your own behavioral style and those of their team members, identify the power dynamics in your organization, understand the interests and agendas of stakeholders, and enlist persuasive techniques targeted to the needs and interests of key decision makers. Organize, direct, motivate, and influence your team.

SHOW EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Understand your behavioral style and those of your team members to bring together teams whose strengths are aligned to your objectives Use this awareness of styles to increase mutual understanding, avoid friction, and heighten meaningful dialogue

DRIVE HIGH-IMPACT INTERACTIONS 

Lead inclusive decision making processes that generate innovative change initiatives Identify the key stages in team development and leverage behavioral strengths suited to the tactical needs of each stage

INFLUENCE WITHOUT AUTHORITY

Identify the power dynamics in your organization and understand the interests and agendas of key stakeholders Enlist persuasive techniques targeted to the needs and interests of key decision makers

WILLIAM KLEPPER 

Academic Director - Executive Education, Adjunct Professor - Management 

Dr. Klepper joined Columbia Business School in 1996 after over thirty years as a general manager in higher education. His teaching and research interest include Executive Learning, Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance. His most recent book, The CEO’s Boss: Tough Love in the Boardroom (2010) Columbia University Press was ranked as one of the Top Five Books by The Wall Street Journal’s livemint.com in December, 2010.

Key Conceptual Models 

✔ The Team Success Formula: Professor William Klepper’s pathway for developing innovative teams – Know Yourself, Control Yourself, Know Others, Do Something for Others. 

✔ Social Styles: A typological framework for understanding the social behavior of oneself and others: Analytical, Driving, Expressive and Amiable. 

✔ Consensus Decision-making: A strategic approach to generating innovative ideas that maximizes team collaboration and commitment to outcomes. 

✔ Persuasion Principles: Dr. Robert Cialdini’s seminal system of key persuaders. 

Additional Program Features

✔ Personal Assessment: The TRACOM Social Style™ Assessment provides an analysis of participants’ behavioral style; crucial for understanding and adapting behaviors to maximize team leadership. 

✔ Video Critique: “Welcome to Oregon Medical Innovations” follows the progress of a fictional team as they struggle to ideate around a pressing business issue; provides practice in identifying behavioral styles, common mistakes, and best practices related to team formation and collaboration.