Teamwork Plus!

Course Objectives

Teamwork Plus! provides the Adizes conceptual foundation which leads to personal growth and dramatic improvement in organizational teamwork. This course will help you to discover what real teamwork is by seeing and understanding certain behavioural patterns in people and in organizations -- why they exist and what to do about them. Realistic views are provided which opens a whole new perspective on people and management. You will learn real solutions that can be applied today to real problems.

The Teamwork Plus! course presents seven insights into why people and organizations flourish.

1. Decision and action are not related!

2. Conflict is good!

3. Respect is a procedure!

4. Stability is bad!

5. Power resides at the bottom!

6. There are no immediate win-win solutions!

7. Structure causes strategy!

This course will explain each insight using fundamental Adizes concepts - concepts that can help transform you and your organization. By the end of this series, you will have a new framework for understanding and action.

Course Organization

This course is organized into six 2-3 hour modules:

1. Introduction to the Adizes methodology
2. Understanding management styles and complementary teams
3. Nine keys to management
4. Understanding Corporate Lifecycles
5. Understanding decision making
6. Effective Corporate Structuring

For each module, you will find online readings and course discussions with other students and instructors.

Timetable

You can begin anytime after the start date and you should allow at least 15 hours to complete the course. The amount of course time will depend on how much you participate in the course discussions. You may take the course at anytime of the day, from anywhere. Each module in the course must be taken in sequence.