Leadership & Executive Development ((3 Credits))

Catalog description

Success in leading people and managing performance, demands an understanding of how teams and work units operate and what motivates employees, as well as a candid assessment of your own personality traits and leadership style. Topics covered focus on alignment of leadership skills and roles with organizational goals and interests, organizational paradoxes, rationalistic and humanistic structures, gender diversity in corporate leadership, cultural change, communication, personality, engagement, power and influence, conflict management, and ethics. Within these broad categories, we will examine specific theories and models that have been used to describe and explain leadership and organizational dynamics as well as examples of successful leadership practices. Assessment tools for leadership development are also included in this course.