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University of Colorado Boulder

Teamwork Skills: Communicating Effectively in Groups

University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera

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Recently revised and updated! Effective teamwork and group communication are essential for your professional and personal success. In this course you will learn to: make better decisions, be more creative and innovative, manage conflict and work with difficult group members, negotiate for preferred outcomes, improve group communication in virtual environments, develop a better overall understanding of human interaction, and work more effectively as a team. Our goal is to help you understand these important dynamics of group communication and learn how to put them into practice to improve your overall teamwork.

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Matthew A. Koschmann, PhD

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4.5 rating, based on 8 Class Central reviews

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  • Karthi M

    Karthi M completed this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.

    Teamwork is the collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.This concept is seen within the greater framework of a team, which is a group of interdependent individuals who work together towards a common goal. Basic requirements for effective teamwork are an adequate team size. The context is important, and team sizes can vary depending upon the objective. A team must include at least 2 or more members, and most teams range in size from 2 to 100. Sports teams generally have fixed sizes based upon set rules, and work teams may change in size depending upon the phase and complexity of the objective. Teams need to be able to leverage resources
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    The most boring course I've taken since my university days. The course consists of four modules, and for the first two modules we've been beating about the bush juggling definitions of communication, anchoring, etc. No possibility for practical implementation whatsoever.
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    Olia Fjodorowa @Olia
    the transmission vs social construct theories of communication was a real eye opener on what I'm doing wrong in my life.
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    Jason Muckley

    Jason Muckley completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

    I loved this course. The content was very relevant to me as a Project Manager. There were lots of new developments in communication science, including strategies that were pertinent to my job function in the class. The content was very professional and interactive. The different projects and case studies were engaging and interesting.
  • Martijn Mertens

    Martijn Mertens completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

    This was a very nice course! I learned a lot of valuable skills and tricks that I can use later in life.
  • Damla Doğançay

    Damla Doğançay completed this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

    It was a really good course which I enjoyed. You gonna definitely learn the issue :) There is no readings but there are quizzes and some essays but not panic they are easy and graded with peer review :)
  • Sabrina M
    This course is so very informative and the instructor explains every concept thoroughly. It will be helpful for anyone who want to understand the hidden forces of social interactions and develop people's skills.
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous completed this course.

    The course is so helpful for me , finished all of it and all quizes but can't submit the assignments because of my poor English and will appreciate if there is anyone can help me
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