Leadership

Online Master's Degree Program

Course Objectives:

• Determine the nature of organizations in terms of structure, environments, and outcomes.
• Analyze the significance of the human element in organizational behavior.
• Develop an understanding of the role and effectiveness of leaders and management decision making in the modern organization.
• Provide an opportunity to think creatively and to apply skills and learning in innovative ways.
• Assess the research skills needed and apply the scientific method to a topic of interest in organizational behavior.
• Describe the fundamentals of decision making, including the basic steps and the need to balance ideal and satisfactory decisions.

Course Objectives:

• Examine the major theories and models of leadership.
• Analyze contemporary issues in organizational leadership.
• Analyze individual models of leadership within organizational situations.
• Assess personal leadership practices.
• Design a leadership action plan for a contemporary social issue.

Course Objectives:

• Evaluate self-leadership.
• Synthesize externally administered rewards and natural (intrinsic) rewards.
• Identify the concept of behavior as taking place at two levels and how self-leadership. strategies influence behavior at both.
• Describe the importance of beliefs relative to behaviors and apply this mental strategy by challenging and replacing irrational and dysfunctional beliefs and assumptions with more positive and rational ones.
• Analyze how team self-leadership is the application of mental and behavioral self-leadership strategies at the team level.
• Evaluate emotional self-leadership in the context of emotional intelligence.
• Recognize examples of the ways in which self-leadership strategies can be applied to work/organizational situations.
• Synthesize the full array of self-leadership strategies into a comprehensive self-leadership framework.

Course Objectives:

• Analyze the differences between leadership and management in the dynamics of leadership.
• Evaluate the components of a bureaucracy, including the inherent threats found in today’s organizations.
• Assess why planned change efforts often fail.
• Develop a method for effectively implementing planned change.
• Analyze the various roles that a change maker can play within an organization.
• Dissect the relationship between technology and change.
• Recognize leadership strategies to implement change in various groups, agencies and organizational settings, to include private business, government, education, and profit / non-profit organizations.

Course Objectives:

• Determine the nature of organizations in terms of structure, environments, and outcomes.
• Analyze the significance of the human element in organizational behavior.
• Develop an understanding of the role and effectiveness of leaders and management decision making in the modern organization.
• Provide an opportunity to think creatively and to apply skills and learning in innovative ways.
• Assess the research skills needed and apply the scientific method to a topic of interest in organizational behavior.
• Describe the fundamentals of decision making, including the basic steps and the need to balance ideal and satisfactory decisions.
• Explain the factors managers should consider in determining the level of associate involvement in managerial decisions.
• Define key elements of organizational structure, including both structural and structuring dimensions.
• Explain how corporate and business strategies relate to structure.

Course Objectives:

• Evaluate the ethical demands of the leadership role.
• Assess personal ethical development.
• Analyze ethical issues in organizational leadership.
• Develop a model to practice ethical leadership through moral behavior and moral influence.

Course Objectives:

• Analyze the transformational power of words.
• Apply rhetoric – Logos, Pathos, Ethos – to enhance communication.
• Analyze the audience, or receivers of the message.
• Align verbal messages with nonverbal behaviors.
• Analyze conversation dynamics in which individuals attempt to manipulate others.
• Interpret the nonverbal communication cues of others.
• Develop “frames” that create mental images and convey a specific message.
• Cultivate charisma or “connectedness” in which you win the hearts and minds of followers.

Course Objectives:

• Analyze case studies in leadership to discern common traits displayed by leaders.
• Evaluate various philosophies of leadership.
• Evaluate strategies to address administrative, interpersonal, and conceptual skills needed by leaders.
• Implement practices that promote a positive culture within a small group.
• Analyze group dynamics to identify in-group and out-group needs and issues.
• Practice conflict management skills to deflate conflicts between group members.
• Evaluate case studies to identify ethical conflicts.
• Develop models that can be used to help overcome obstacles that arise while leading a group.

Course Objectives:

• Assess the attributes of a successful coach.
• Design an effective coaching session.
• Analyze coaching to correct unproductive behavior.
• Acquire the eight traits of an effective coach.
• Compare and contrast creative solutions through coaching.
• Develop feedback skills conducive to delivering good and bad news.
• Create your own coaching mission/vision/philosophy statement/job description.

Course Objectives:

• Implement cross-cultural situations through practice experience.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of cross-cultural communication and leadership in a global environment.
• Understand the importance of civil and political engagement and its role in a global environment.
• Develop the skills necessary to read, evaluate, and use intercultural theories.
• Engage in cultural knowledge in intercultural communication contexts.
• Formulate language and nonverbal elements in message production and consumption.
• Integrate practical work solutions, and others for ways to integrate culture into social change and civic engagement.
• Analyze ideologies and their role in face-to-face and mediated communication.

Course Objectives:

• Describe the functions, roles and common organizational structures that support learning and performance improvement.
• Explain the role of memory, emotion, attention and practice in learning.
• Compare three (3) learning theories’ strengths and weaknesses.
• Classify types of learning along axis of explicit-tacit and theory-practice.
• Describe the cycle of knowledge creation and socialization.
• Contrast purpose, best use, strengths and weaknesses of three (3) types of collective learning.
• Explain the value received by aligning the planning of learning to performance improvement needs.
• Critique three common types of leadership learning programs.
• Diagram the relationship between learner, instructor, content, and other learners for three different learning delivery technologies.

Course Objectives:

• Implement leadership theory through practice experience.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of diversity and leadership accountability in a global environment.
• Build a strong leadership portfolio which aligns with a personal leadership statement, a compilation of leadership experiences, and research on leadership growth.
• Identify key leadership areas such as management, ethics, strategic thinking, and organizational culture.
• Engage in leadership behaviors and development.
• Analyze theoretical and practical knowledge and leadership.
• Integrate VIP2 Leadership development.
• Analyze leadership situations and dilemmas, and best practices for leadership decision-making.