Leading Teams: Motivating and Inspiring Individuals

A course by Ross School of Business, University of Michigan in collaboration with National Arts Strategies

Course Description

Embark on a transformative journey with the "Leading Teams: Motivating and Inspiring Individuals" course, offered by the prestigious Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in collaboration with National Arts Strategies. This comprehensive leadership-development-program is specifically tailored for leaders in the cultural sector, equipping them with essential leadership-skills-in-cultural-sector to drive employee-engagement-strategies and optimize team-performance-optimization.

In today's competitive landscape, motivation-in-organizations is a critical challenge, with only 13% of workers worldwide exhibiting high levels of engagement. This course delves deep into the root causes of motivation problems and provides you with practical tools and techniques to solve them effectively. By focusing on creating optimal work conditions, structuring goals, and aligning rewards with desired behaviors, you'll learn how to bring out the best in your team and foster a culture of high performance.

What Students Will Learn

  • Creating and communicating a shared-vision-communication for your team
  • Setting-effective-goals and expectations that drive results
  • Understanding human needs and performance-drivers-in-teams across cultures
  • Implementing reward-alignment-in-organizations to motivate desired behaviors
  • Developing critical leadership-and-hr-practices specific to the cultural sector

Prerequisites

This introductory-level course requires no specific prerequisites. However, a basic understanding of management principles and a passion for leadership in the cultural sector would be beneficial.

Course Coverage

  • Visionary leadership and team-vision-creation
  • Goal-setting-for-teams and expectation management
  • Cross-cultural understanding of human needs and motivation
  • Reward systems and performance feedback
  • Organizational-behavior-analysis and team dynamics
  • Employee-motivation-techniques and engagement strategies
  • Cultural-sector-management-skills and leadership practices

Who This Course Is For

  • Current and aspiring leaders in the cultural sector
  • Managers seeking to enhance their team-engagement-enhancement skills
  • HR professionals in arts and culture organizations
  • Anyone interested in leadership-development-program with a focus on motivation and inspiration

Real-World Applications

  • Create a more engaged and motivated workforce
  • Implement effective goal-setting and reward systems
  • Improve team communication and collaboration
  • Enhance overall organizational performance
  • Address and solve motivation problems in their teams
  • Develop a leadership style that inspires and drives results

Syllabus

Weeks 1 & 2: Becoming a Visionary Leader

  • Creating a shared purpose and core values
  • Setting stretch goals
  • Communicating vision effectively

Week 3: Setting Effective Goals and Expectations

  • Characteristics of effective goals
  • Making goals meaningful and motivating
  • Balancing challenge and specificity in goal-setting

Week 4: Understanding Human Needs and Drivers of Performance Across Cultures

  • Fundamental needs driving human behavior
  • Cultural differences in motivation
  • Leveraging needs to enhance team motivation

Week 5: Aligning Rewards and Behavior

  • Creating effective reward systems
  • Delivering impactful performance feedback
  • Driving performance through aligned incentives

This course offers a unique blend of academic insights from University of Michigan faculty and practical wisdom from industry leaders like Franci Phelan (Kennedy Center), Aaron Dworkin (UM School of Music, Theatre and Dance), and Tim Cynova (Fractured Atlas). By enrolling, you'll gain invaluable cultural-sector-leadership-course experience and motivational-strategies-for-teams that will elevate your leadership capabilities and drive your organization's success.