Building and Leading Effective Teams
MIT's Sloan School of Management offers this intensive one-week introduction to leadership and teamwork, built for the Leaders for Manufacturing program but published openly through MIT OpenCourseWare. The class meets daily over five days and relies on experiential exercises rather than lectures, asking participants to practice group skills and build supportive relationships in real time. A central concept is the 'Universe Within,' the internal images, thoughts, and experiences that shape how leaders act under pressure. Course materials include the syllabus and session outlines used to run the exercises, giving instructors or self-learners a template for a short, hands-on leadership workshop. There is no paid certificate; MIT OpenCourseWare materials are free to use under a Creative Commons license.