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Optimizing Diversity on Teams

Culture-Driven Team Building,

By drawing on social science perspectives, this course enables you to learn what diversity is, and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation and creativity. You also learn how to draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams, handle conflict and establish common ground rules through real-world cases and peer-to-peer discussions. In addition, you discover how to overcome common biases faced in diverse teams. Systems of power, reward and rhetoric are discussed to help you create prosperous teams where differences flourish.
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Rating 3.8 based on 10 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $99
From University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
Instructors Aviva Legatt, Ph.D., Derek Newberry, Ph.D., Dr. Aviva Legatt
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Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Personal Development Leadership And Management

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culture-driven team building specialization

Thought-prov Right on topic for the issues I'm seeing in the workplace This course is pretty lightweight, similar to other courses in the Culture-Driven Team Building specialization I've taken so far, but the combination of all those courses has immediately proved to be valuable to me in the workplace.

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Many times we tend to prefer teams with less diversity just because it is easier to manage.

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Nike diversity case study was particularly interesting.

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I find it too politically charged as it emphasized the "visual diversity" (religion, ethnicity) over the "second-order diversity" (diversity of professional profiles and personalities) which should be the focus of a management course.

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The overall information in this course was very informative and in some aspects rewarding as refreshers as where the mindset is with some population standards.

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Rating 3.8 based on 10 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (44 weeks ago)
Cost $99
From University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
Instructors Aviva Legatt, Ph.D., Derek Newberry, Ph.D., Dr. Aviva Legatt
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Business
Tags Business Personal Development Leadership And Management

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