Elective Course – in English | part of UNISTART for supervisors
Leading Teams and Groups
Objectives
- Participants will be familiar with and be able to identify processes of group dynamics.
- Participants will be familiar with the phases of group/team building.
- Participants will be aware of their role and leadership techniques for various phases of team building.
- Participants will be familiar with particular aspects of group communication, including particularly aspects of equality awareness (non-biased language, gender bias...).
- Participants will be familiar with the stages of conflict development, and develop some resources and methods for effective intervention.
- Participants will learn techniques for de-escalating conflicts in teams.
Contents
- Leading teams and supporting their development
- Basic introduction to group dynamics
- Reflections on and exploration of phases of team development
- Characteristics of successful teams
- Guiding the process of team development
- Characteristics of communication in teams
- Situational leadership
- Handling conflict situations
- Intra- and interpersonal conflicts
- Stages of conflict escalation; hot/cold conflicts
- Understanding your role in conflict interventions
- Analysis tool for conflicts
- Case studies/share experiences
- Workshop challenging situations from the practical experiences of participants
- Practise responses in simulated situations
- Devising solutions
- Advice from colleagues
APPLICATION
This module is part of UNISTART for supervisors. Application directly via personalressort.uni-graz.at