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Challenge summary

Summary: Reflection on the Soft Skills needed in management.
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1 – 2 hours
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Tying together all the threads.

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Stimulus resources

  1. The article about how President Obama uses

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  2. Your notes from the long read called Demographic Diversity.
  3. Brie Code’s Tumblr post on diverse teams.
  4. Knowledge acquired through your reading about work attitudes by managers and how they can influence the whole workforce.

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Purpose

Now that you’ve read about influence as a managerial technique, and seen how a manager’s attitude can, in turn, influence how employees act, it’s time to tie all of this together. Think about how influence and attitude can help managing diverse teams and dealing with bias. The idea is that this will:

  • Help you focus on one aspect at the nexus of these three concepts.
  • Make you think about how the challenges of diverse teams can be managed correctly or incorrectly.
  • Consider how you, as a manager, could properly manage these challenges to make your organization more efficient.