Soft Skills: Leadership and Team Management

Code:

CTLGE01

Acronym:

CTLGE01

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Personal Development

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S (of 24-03-2013 to 30-04-2014)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Orientation and Integration Unit
Course/CS Responsible:	Soft Skills: Leadership and Team Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CTLGE	21	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	10	40,5
-	2	-	-	-	1,5	10	40,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

At the end of the training unit the student should be able to:

• Understand the relationship between different leadership styles and different motivational patterns of work teams;

• Know the different team work motivational patterns';

• Understand the relationship between different leadership styles and different motivational patterns;

• Identify the different types of conflicts that emerge in work teams;

• Identify key operating characteristics of a team, its structure and its dynamics;

•F eedback mechanisms (reinforcement / punishment) its role on motivation and managment;

Learning outcomes and competences

 General concepts of strategic management team leadership;
Communication skills for driving teams (feedback, praise and criticism, assertiveness);

Understanding and intervention teams, according to different leadership styles and different motivational patterns;

Analyze and solve paradigmatic leadership situations and team managment

Working method

B-learning

Program

• The concept of leadership and its role within the project team;

• Trait Theory vs developmental theories on the emergence of leaders (personal and educational and contextual factors)

• Different leadership styles;

•The main characteristics and behaviors of teams of work

•the different motivational patterns of work teams;

• Conflict and its role in organizational dynamics; • 

 • Feedback: the use of praise and criticism in teams´s management;

• The leader as mediator and a motivater

Mandatory literature

Rego, A. & Pina e Cunha, M. ; Liderança: a virtude está no meio, Lisboa: Atual Editora, 2011
Grayson, Curt, Baldwin, David Bryan; Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create, In Ideas Into Action Guidebooks.Greensboro, N.C. : Center for Creative Leadership, 2007. ISBN: 9781882197972. 9781932973860

Complementary Bibliography

Almeida, F. N.; O gestor: a arte de liderar, Lisboa: Editorial Presença, 1996
Almeida, F. N.; Psicologia para gestores – Comportamentos de sucesso nas organizações, Lisboa: McGraw-Hill, 1995
Cascão, F. & Neves, A.; Liderança e animação de equipas, Porto:Edições IPAM, 2001
Estanqueiro, A.; Saber lidar com as pessoas, Lisboa: Editorial Presença., 1993
Fachada, M. O.; Psicologia das relações interpessoais, Lisboa: Edições Rumo, 1998
Lepri, R; A arte da liderança nas organizações do futuro, Aparecida – SP: Ideias & Letras, Lda., 2005
Manual Prático Lidel – Negociação: Técnicas & Ferramentas; Silva, M. P., Infante, M. & Ribeiro, A. V., Lisboa: Lidel – Edições Técnicas, Lda, 2000

Teaching methods and learning activities

Exhibition ;

Discussion and brainstorming ,

Group dynamic exercises for skills training;

Analysis and synthesis of integrative learning.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	50,00
Trabalho de campo	50,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Assumes a frequency of over 75% of the  classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

• Timeliness (10%) • Participation and involvement (50%) • Autonomous work: proposed resolution of a case study (40%)