Explores the different types of roles that individual contributors may take in team-based environments; methods for navigating challenging situations to improve team productivity; and techniques for strengthening leadership, communication, and collaborative skills. Successful leaders leverage a variety of techniques and tools to discover, understand, and maximize the ways in which teams interact, communicate, and collaborate. At the conclusion of the course, students should be able to develop and execute action plans by applying these practices for optimum team productivity and output.