ORGN 4040: Individual, Team, and Organizational Development

This course focuses on change at an individual, team and organizational level. We examine how training programs help individuals improve their skills, how managers can use scientific principles to improve team performance and, finally, how organizations plan and execute change at a large scale. Topics include the development and evaluation of training programs, advances in training methods, the psychology of teams, the design of teams, team building and the steps of organizational change initiatives.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate next-generation communications skills, including the ability to express ideas in video and audio formats;
• Summarize how humans develop capabilities over their lifetime and the different contexts in which they develop – individually, as team members and as organizational members;
• Define basic learning principles;
• Apply the basic learning principles to help people learn;
• Explain job analysis and use it to create training;
• Apply design principles to teams and identify interventions to improve performance;
• Describe and apply basic principles of change management. 

In this course, you will

   Learn the scientific underpinnings of individual learning and team performance; 

   Create a capstone training project and receive feedback from your peers.

Meet Your Instructor

Tracy Jennings 

  tracy.jennings@colorado.edu

Dr. Tracy Jennings is a teaching professor in the Division of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics at Leeds School of Business. She holds a degree in Religion from Williams College, a PhD in Cognitive Psychology and an MBA, both from the University of Denver. Dr. Jennings began her career at IBM and later assumed new product development leadership roles at U S WEST and Yipes Communications.

Dr. Jennings teaches organizational behavior and all of the human resources courses at Leeds. In addition, she taught in China and led five Leeds Global Seminars in Shanghai and Beijing. Jennings won the Joseph L. Frascona Teaching Excellence Award in 2013.