Learning Team Experience

Learning Team

The Learning Team Experience

Teamwork is one of our core leadership competencies. During your time at Wharton, you will participate in as many as 20 teams, including first year Learning Teams, elective course teams, club and conference roles, student government, and co-curricular programs and fellowships. As your first team at Wharton, the Learning Team serves as a model experience for team formation and effective teamwork. The Learning Team is a laboratory meant to hone your teamwork skills, providing you with the opportunity to practice different leadership styles and skills that promote collaborative learning and development through group projects across the Fixed Core curriculum.

Each Learning Team is assigned a second-year Leadership Fellow (LF). In addition to coaching and mentoring first-year students on personal development, LFs also mentor, support, and facilitate the team formation process and serve as team process consultants for the Learning Teams. LFs mentor Learning Teams throughout the Learning Team Experience Retreat, Management 6100: Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership, and also facilitate the learning team 360 peer review process.

  • A group of people sitting on grass, engaged in a discussion. They appear relaxed and are using mobile devices and taking notes. They are wearing matching maroon shirts, suggesting participation in a group event or gathering.
    Learning teams are meant to be a laboratory in which to cultivate persuasive, rather than positional, leadership skills.  A diverse group of five or six students is randomly assigned to a team, and students learn to lead in a peer environment.
  • A group of people in yellow shirts engaging in a team-building exercise on a grassy field. They are standing on wooden planks, holding ropes, and moving in unison.
    Learning teams are immediately called to act and collaborate at the Retreat, creating a vision and team operating principles.
  • A group of people in red shirts are participating in a team-building activity outdoors, using ropes and a blue bucket on a grassy field.
    Through a variety of teamwork and leadership challenges, learning teams and cohorts form bonds that will serve as the foundation of their working relationships throughout the academic year.

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