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What is the Leadership Focus?
These leadership area courses are designed to provide actionable takeaways for participants to improve their ability to foster and lead change in organizations. It also helps participants understand and foster innovation as a tool for change. Finally, it helps leaders activate their personal network and form framework for leading ethically. The learning outcomes for the communication focus include:
- Create organizational norms and sustain a culture of high performance during times of change
- Identify and mitigate organizational constraints on change plans
- Articulate strategic plans in a way that gains commitment
- Build your network and how to effectively use Linked-in
- Identify strengths and values and align them with organizational goals
- Identify cultural and structural factors that foster or block innovation in enterprises
- Analyze how innovation affects business results
Course Descriptions:
Leading Change. This course introduces the skills prerequisite to designing, implementing, and leading change in complex organizational environments. Leadership development topics include creating vision, soliciting involvement, catalyzing actin, transforming resistance, and tracking/evaluating change results. (1 credit hour)
Innovation. This course will take a 360-degree look at the notion of business innovation, ranging from the entrepreneurial to corporate and from the individual (creativity) to the collective (strategic). Students will explore a number of resources that help stake out a definition for innovation specific to business results and explore ways to foster creativity whether it be from an entrepreneurial perspective or an intrapreneurial effort to improve enterprise results. (1 credit hour)
Networking. This course reveals strategies for building more meaningful, more authentic professional connections by establishing and nurturing mutually beneficial, long-term relationships. (1 credit hour)
Ethical Leadership. This course explores concepts of ethical leadership at the individual, organizational, and societal levels. Students will develop the ability to frame, analyze, and resolve ethical dilemmas in their organization. They will gain new self-insight as they examine their own values and explore processes to produce ethical outcomes when faced with challenging situations. (1 credit hour)