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Team Dynamics
COURSE DELIVERY:
02/19/21 - 02/20/21
COURSE TITLE
Better Together: Leading and Developing High-
Performance Teams
DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Learn to maximize your team’s potential.
2. Leverage your team members’ roles for high
team performance and understand how to
match the right people to the right tasks.
3. Apply proven tools in communication, decisionmaking,
and learning to strengthen your team’s
motivation, alignment and collaboration.
4. Empower yourself and your team by learning
how to influence others.
This course will introduce the participant to the importance
of creating and empowering teams to fuel an organization’s
success. Team dynamics, appropriate role assignments,
and effective leadership are fundamentals of positive team
outcomes. Students will learn ways of leveraging their behavioral
style as a team leader and to successfully lead diverse and
cross-functional teams.
Travis Maynard teaches team effectiveness and leadership classes at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels at CSU, where he has been nominated for
a variety of teaching awards. In addition to teaching, Travis has also conducted
extensive research in the areas of team effectiveness and leadership.
He is currently conducting research projects with the U.S. Army and NASA looking
at team resilience and adaptation. He has received several research awards for his
publications in premier journals.
Travis holds a BBA in Accounting from the College of William and Mary, an
MBA from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business, and a Ph.D. in
Organizational Behavior from the University of Connecticut.
Instructor: Dr. Travis Maynard
College of Business
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