B6500-005: Lead: People, Teams, Organizations
Block Week 8/26-8/30 - 09:00AM to 12:15PM
Credit hours: 1.5
Location: WJW 310
Instructor: Katherine Phillips
This course focuses on the skills sets needed to elicit high commitment and productivity from people and groups. Awareness of one's own values, beliefs, decision-making tendencies and behaviors is seen as a crucial first step in becoming a leader. Thus, a significant portion of the course consists of activities designed to enhance students' self-awareness. The course provides students with the interpersonal skills needed to motivate key actors in the workplace and to manage group dynamics so as to create synergy among group members. Methods of instruction include individualized feedback, cases, role-plays and experiential exercises.
Katherine Phillips
Katherine Phillips was a Columbia Business School faculty member from 2011 to 2020.