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Working in groups and teams
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This free course, Working in groups and teams, explores team working from start to finish. It looks at how successful teams are created, roles within a team, the life cycle of a team, how to manage conflict within teams and evaluating team performance.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- recognise the difference between groups and teams and understand when each is more appropriate
- understand issues in team constitution (team roles)
- identify the different stages of team development and how a manager can support the team at each stage
- understand and identify team processes (inputs, throughputs and outputs) and the manager's role
- understand and manage conflict.
First Published: 08/08/2012
Updated: 12/06/2019
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