COMM 4050 - Leadership and High Performance Teams

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

Communication

Description:

The dual theoretical and conceptual areas of Leadership and High Performance Teams are frequently misunderstood and equally misapplied. We will work to dispel those misconceptions by first concentrating on Leadership qualities found in a variety of settings that include both personal and professional foci. We will distinguish between managerial behaviors/consequences and true leadership as it relates to the relationship between leaders and followers. After spending around twelve weeks on Leadership, we will move into the arena of High Performance Teams for the remainder of the semester. We will distinguish between day-to-day group dynamics and how people come together to create and maintain the highly specialized behaviors supportive of a High Performance Team. There will be frequent in-class exercises to facilitate learning and the successful consequences of these exercises are dependent upon you having read the assigned readings. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Understand the importance of human communication in the formation of the leader/follower relationship. 2. Transfer a practical understanding of small group dynamics to the social contexts of both leadership and high performance teams experienced in both your everyday and professional lives. 3. Recognize the important, meaningful roles that leaders, followers, and team members fulfill during their communication interactions with others. 4. Understand the axioms of leadership theories as well as the nature of principled and ethical leadership. 5. Evaluate the various strategies by which these theories and axioms can be applied and function. 6. Explore application of these theories and axioms by experiential practice in the classroom. Prerequisites: COMM 2120. SP

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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