Learning Topics

Communicating with Others is about gauging your current effectiveness in communicating, and learning techniques and strategies to become more adept in your interpersonal communication.

Articles and Tools

• The Basics of Communicating with Others
• The Gourmet Chef's Guide to Giving Feedback
• Tips for Active Listening

Designing Meetings is about techniques and methods that help meetings run smoothly and groups work collaboratively.

Articles and Tools

• The Basics of Designing & Facilitating Meetings
• Brainstorming Guidelines
• How and Why to Use a Meeting Agenda
• Tips for Recording

Leading and Managing Others is about how managers can be effective leaders of organizational change. When managers manage as leaders, they proactively take steps to lead a group towards a vision of the future.

Articles and Tools

• The Basics of Managing as a Leader
• Build Relationships with Your Team through Coaching
• Five Don'ts for the Manager/Leader
• Self-Assessment for Managers as Leaders (Microsoft Word)
• Understanding the Culture of Your Organization (Microsoft Word)
• What is Coaching?

Change management is a set of ideas, strategies, and skills that can be applied to engage change effectively. Managing Change offers resources to help individuals and teams respond to and manage change more effectively at MIT.

Articles and Tools

• The Basics of Managing Change
• Change Gauge Tool (Microsoft Word)
• Four Thoughts for Enabling Change
• Planning for Change: The Force Field Tool

Teams share a commitment to a common purpose, mission and goals. Working on Teams offers tools and techniques to help both members and leaders of MIT teams work more cooperatively and effectively.

Articles and Tools

• The Basics of Working on Teams
• Decision-Making Models
• Important Steps When Building a New Team
• Using the Stages of Team Development