Week 1 – Introduction Excited for this course, but a little weary. It is a prerequisite for other MBA classes, and it is known as being difficult. I have an accounting background so I hope I can lean on that to work through these concepts easier. This week we talked about regulatory environment, accounting standard …

Week 5 – Change Management A more scientific approach to change and managing it in an organization is probably apropos given the consequences of mishandled change. Communication is an important component of it because it builds trust with those being affected. Stakeholders need to be identified and brought into the change plan. People fear change …

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 …