Team Academy: Leadership and Teams

Abstract

In his 2006 article, Mark Van Vugt posed the view that “whenever a group of people come together, a leader-follower relationship naturally develops.” The leader-follower relationship in a Team Academy based education programme can be contentious and challenging, as well as rewarding and enlightening. Learners in these programmes, often situated in Higher Education undergraduate courses, have to work at understanding the psychology and behaviours of those in their teams, and this journey ultimately brings them back to self-reflection.

In this text, the third in the series, researchers and Team Academy practitioners explore the ways in which learners on programmes based on this learning-by-doing model, attempt to navigate the complexity of team dynamics, whilst understanding their place and impact on the process. There is often a different approach to leadership taken by Team Academy learners, allowing often for a more fluid and organic emergent process. Self-leadership is a core concept within the model and in this book a number of chapters explore the way in which mindset and understanding of self in teams creates opportunities for learning and development that foster entrepreneurial action. The approach to team focuses more on creating communities of practice that can span the global network of programmes inspired by the Team Academy model. In this book, authors explore the concept of community in teams, and the environment that creates or challenges the Team Entrepreneur (student) as they embark on their entrepreneurial journey. The reader is challenged to consider how such a heutagogical learning model impacts on team identity, performance and engagement, and how the mental and physical spaces created in such programmes enables the learner to become truly self-determined.

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Online Publication Date: Dec 2, 2021
• Publication Date: Dec 2, 2021
• Deposit Date: Feb 23, 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Series Title: Routledge Focus on Team Academy
• ISBN: 9780367755973
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7109082
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/Team-Academy-Leadership-and-Teams/Vettraino-Urzelai/p/book/9780367755973
• Contract Date: Jan 15, 2021