Creative Team Dynamics: Identity & Change

BBA: Strategic Design & Management | Parsons School of Design (2021)

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Instructor: Irna Sayeed (she/her)

Instructor Timezone : Pacific Time

Office Hours: By appointment

Email: [email protected]

Class Time: 7:00pm - 09:40pm ET

Zoom: Link

Course duration: 15 weeks

Course Approach: 100% Synchronous

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📜 What this course is about

Creative Team Dynamics focuses on understanding the unique creativity of each person and how that can be leveraged on multi-disciplinary teams to nurture innovation. In this course students are exposed to the theoretical contexts of organizational settings and the human dynamics within these settings. Students learn effective team-building and collaboration tools, including time-management, leadership and conflict resolution skills. Students also understand their identity, their values and how to channel their energy into their work.

Learning Outcomes By the completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate their understanding of:

  1. The factors that comprise, promote, and threaten the formation of personal identity
  2. An understanding of human-skills (soft skills) and Man-made skills (hard skills)
  3. The value of EQ in approaching social dynamics
  4. Methods for understanding, appreciating, and interacting with other members of a team
  5. How to form and manage a team based on objective criteria about its members
  6. Identifying and managing interpersonal conflict and difficult team dynamics
  7. Problem identification and the process of team-based problem solving
  8. Verbal, non-verbal, written, and presentation skills that support team dynamics and outputs
  9. A general understanding of organizations, departments, teams, project management and agile product development processes.

😇 What is expected of you

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