Soft Skills: Leadership and Team Management

Code:

CTLGE01

Acronym:

CTLGE01

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Personal Development

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S (edição n.º 1)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Orientation and Integration Office
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	0	Syllabus	1	-	1,5	10	40,5
L.AERO	0	Syllabus	3	-	1,5	10	40,5
L.BIO	7	Syllabus	3	-	1,5	10	40,5
L.EA	5	Syllabus	2	-	1,5	10	40,5
L.EC	59	Syllabus	2	-	1,5	10	40,5
L.EEC	57	Syllabus	2	-	1,5	10	40,5
L.EGI	78	Syllabus	2	-	1,5	10	40,5
L.EIC	67	Syllabus	2	-	1,5	10	40,5
			3
L.EM	37	Syllabus	3	-	1,5	10	40,5
L.EMAT	7	Syllabus	3	-	1,5	10	40,5
L.EMG	1	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2008/09	2	-	1,5	10	40,5
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the training unit, students should be able to:

• Understand and critically evaluate different approaches, theories, and leadership styles.
• Identify cross-cutting aspects of team functioning, as well as their relational dynamics.
• Identify and apply communication skills in a teamwork context and recognize their importance for leadership and for the well-being and functioning of teams.
• Identify practices of humanized and transformative leadership, recognizing the critical factors associated with them.
• Establish plans for introspection and self-evaluation to enhance leadership and team management abilities.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Leadership Approaches, Theories, and Styles
1.1 Traits, Behavioral, Situational, Transformational, and Servant Leadership
1.2 - Skills for Being a Leader

2. Work Teams
2.1 Characteristics and properties of work teams
2.2 Cohesion and Group Thinking
2.3 Conflict: its emerging nature and function

3. Communication
3.1 Determinants of human communication
3.2 The role of communication in establishing and managing interpersonal relationships
3.2. Reciprocity and feedback in the communication process

4. Becoming a Leader
4.1 Representations of leadership
4.2 The challenges associated with the transition to leadership positions
4.2 Strategies for self-monitoring and self-care

Mandatory literature

Mullins , Laurie J.; Management and organisational behaviour. ISBN: 978-0-273-72408-7
Cunha , Miguel Pina e; Manual de comportamento organizacional e gestão. ISBN: 978-972-8871-58-1

Complementary Bibliography

Lourenço, P.R; Liderança e eficácia: uma relação revisitada, Psychologica, 23, 119-130., 2000
Alexandre Rangel; O Que Podemos Aprender Com os Gansos: Lições de cooperação, liderança e motivação, Casa das Letras, 2006
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; trad. Joana Morais Varela; com aguarelas do autor; O principezinho. ISBN: 978-972-23-2829-6
Humphrey Watts S. 1927-2010; TSP leading a development team. ISBN: 0-321-34962-8
Rego, Arménio; Cunha, Miguel Pina; Liderança humanizada, IEFP Dirigir : revista para chefias (pp41 - 45), 2012
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego; Liderar, Publicações Dom Quixote, 2007. ISBN: 9789722038652
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego; Liderança - A Virtude Está no Meio, Actual Editora, 2011. ISBN: 9789896940249
Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego; A Essência da Liderança Mudança - Resultados - Integridade, Editora RH, 2003. ISBN: 9789728853013
Rego, A.; Liderança nas organizações: teoria e prática, Universidade de Aveiro, 1998

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation of basic concepts
Debate and brainstorming with a view to student participation and involvement, encouraging reflection on the concepts' applicability
Exercises and simulations, stimulating critical thinking and the critical development of solutions
Group dynamics exercises for skills training; Analysis and integrative synthesis of learning.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	60,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	10,00
Trabalho de campo	8,00
Trabalho escrito	18,50
Estudo autónomo	4,00
Total:	40,50

Eligibility for exams

  - Attendance at 75% of classes is required;
AND
 - Completion of the assessment components defined for the CT (see below).

 

Calculation formula of final grade

• Participation and involvement during classes: 60%
• Fieldwork and Written Assignment: 40%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

** Students with TE status valid for the academic year, should contact the teacher in the 1st class

Classification improvement

Not applicable