Description

This course will support students in acquiring a leadership lens that features intellectual diversity, strategic thinking and managerial competencies needed in today’s business world based on knowledge economy. There are two integrated dimensions of leadership that this course will focus on: organizational and individual. Studying organizational leadership will provide answers to some of the above listed questions while developing an individual leadership skills set will support personal growth of each leader-student.
In this course, students will explore organizational leadership theories as well as examine how to strategically lead self and others while fostering a culture of performance. Students will use tools that leverage organizational and individual development. Through an integration of a variety of these tools, strategies, and theories, the students will develop knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA) necessary in contemporary leadership development. These will include: individual skills assessment, appreciative inquiry, action planning, understanding group dynamics, tools for transforming groups into teams, mentoring and coaching instruments as well as familiarity with preliminary strategic environmental scans at the organizational level. Students will develop basic leadership KSA that will increase their individual leadership awareness, facilitate growth, and increase appreciation of diversity and business ethics as well as ensure solid relatedness to contemporary leadership issues.