Curriculum
Develop your understanding of team dynamics and learn strategies and tools for leading human teams through AI-driven change.
What forces determine whether a team succeeds?
How is AI changing the way teams work together?
How do you rebuild a team that is breaking down?
Leading Human Teams in the Age of AI presents a research-based curriculum to help you find answers and take action. If you want to build stronger teams, make better decisions, and keep people engaged through change, the curriculum equips executives and managers to lead with greater confidence.
Experiential Learning
The rigorous and hands-on curriculum is designed to move you from insights to tangible and clear actions. Led by faculty, experience live simulations, followed by group debriefs, and collaborative study group time. You’ll leave with a roadmap for team interventions that you can apply to your work when you return.
Stanford Expertise
As AI integrates into teams, the distinct characteristics and strengths of humans is becoming more important than ever – this is where Stanford GSB faculty excel. Gain insights from the leading minds in team dynamics, power, influence, and organizational behavior. It’s a uniquely Stanford experience designed to empower leaders to build, diagnose, and guide human teams, specifically in the AI era.
Program Highlights
Below are just a few of the sessions you’ll attend as part of the program.
Leveraging Compositional Advantage
In response to growing demands for efficiency and flexibility, organizations are relying on teams to do much of the work traditionally accomplished by individuals. When managed well, teams stimulate creativity and innovation, make an organization more adaptive to market forces, and ultimately tap into the organization’s deep intellectual resources. When managed poorly, individual and organizational performance can suffer. In this session, we will explore how successful teams can harness the capabilities of their members.
Managing with AI: Managerial Applications
Building on the idea of AI as a prediction machine, this session addresses how managers and organizational leaders should integrate AI into decision-making. We focus on the manager’s enduring role as final arbiter of judgment, and how leaders can operate effectively in a world where AI can produce endless options, ideas, and content on demand. The organizations that succeed will integrate AI into their operations, without ceding strategic decision-making to the machines.
Navigating & Shaping Hierarchy
Formal and informal hierarchies are all around us. Therefore, effective leaders need a deep understanding of hierarchy’s promises and pitfalls. In this session, we will discuss research on power, status, dominance, influence and leadership. We will play and debrief the Promotion! strategy game, which will serve as our platform for discussing the ubiquity and diversity of hierarchy, the emergence of dysfunctional and well-functioning hierarchies, and the role of strategic thinking, perspective-taking, cooperation and competition in navigating and shaping
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