Week 4 – Culture Of all the organizational studies we’ve undertaken, I feel this was the most important subject we broached. Culture within an organization is a powerful tool that can help or hinder an organization and how it is deployed and maintained our vastly important. A culture that fits the environment it works in …

Week 3 – Teamwork There was a lot here I wanted to unpack and understand. I’ve been a part of several high functioning teams and I wanted to know why. A team forms from a working group by using a common approach, holding each other accountable, and getting everyone to trust each other to accomplish …

Week 2 – Motivation Understanding motivation is difficult, and this evidenced by the many theories of motivation out there. We talked about the baseline motivation model – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – and how most other motivation frameworks fall within that pyramid in some fashion. We then broke the theories down into three sectors which …

Week 1 – Leadership A personal takeaway regarding the spectrum of contemporary leadership styles that order itself based upon the degree of shared decision making, I most likely fall under the facilitative style given that I like to lead teams towards a goal while letting them decide how to get there. This would be in …