Leadership Development

This course explores leadership as a dynamic relationship with the organizational environment, stakeholders, and followers. Leadership in context is an essential concept, as well as the research-based core leadership competencies that effective leaders exemplify. Leaders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors will be studied in an inclusive context to assess their core leadership competencies and those practices that may vary due to the organizational structure. Relevant contemporary leadership topics will be examined to gain a broad perspective on leadership and considering the diversity of human interrelationships. The importance of ethical, strategic, and system wide decision-making is examined from the standpoint that leadership opportunities exist at all levels of organizations, in the community as well as the workplace. Strategies used to influence culture, promote learning, and implement change to move organizations forward are addressed. Students will assess their own leadership competencies and areas for growth to construct a personal leadership development plan.