Functional teaming & authentic leadership

At Coles, teaming is much more than just a study group and leadership is more than a course and a few assessments. We provide you with the academic foundations and tools to manage and understand yourself and others. Students are given the opportunity to explore how each team member functions in the group and use those differences to strengthen the whole. We use this information to help you become an authentic leader - learning how to lead through motivation without losing your sense of self.

Foundations of teaming helps learning teams develop a strong sense of importance and team purpose, as well as providing students a strategic approach to human resource matters and the motivation of others in business.

Authentic leadership helps you develop personally and professionally, through self-reflection, leadership training and by working with a committed executive coach.

Functional teaming and authentic leadership allow you to thrive in business and life. At Coles we provide you with the tools for both.

On Authentic Leadership
The focus on leadership is life changing at Coles. I take the leadership
tools back to my staff meetings. We joke at the office that my collegues
are the ones that really deserve the MBA. I use the leadership tools at my job
and the motivational leadership is making a positive impact.

Dale Rose, Class of 2006,
Manager, BellSouth

The foundational difference

Students come to Coles with considerable management and leadership experience. Coles Executive MBA takes it to the next level.

Managers will succeed only when they can identify
and deploy the differences among people.

Harvard Business Review, March 2005

Did you ever wonder why your employee acts the way he does and why your boss seems to drift off whenever you bring up talk of the budget? Foundations of teaming is about understanding why people think and act the way they do in order to lead a functional team in the direction you need them to move in.

By sharing aspects of your personal and self assessments with teammates, foundation of teaming will explore how each team member functions in a team and how differences in team members can be used to strengthen the whole.

To know is to thrive

Knowing what makes teammates respond will guide you to becoming a better leader as you practice motivational leadership techniques modeled after the world's most successful CEOs, government and movement leaders.

In addition, students are provided with academic frameworks for functional teaming so that their domestic and global learning teams thrive. Because so much of the curriculum is learned through interactions with your learning teams – the academic frameworks used to form your team charter and divide group tasks efficiently helps you thrive during and long after the Coles Executive MBA experience.

Foundations of teaming helps learning teams develop a strong sense of importance and team purpose, as well as providing students a strategic approach to human resource matters and the motivation of others in business.