Strategic Leadership

Catalog description

LEAD 862 explores and analyzes the requirements for effective strategic leadership in organizations. Strategic leadership examines the role of executive leaders and their effects on organizations. The primary role of executives is to foster financial success and create wealth in organizations. This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the requirements for effective strategic leadership in organizations as assessed by the balanced scorecard. The challenges of strategic leadership involve strategic planning, marketing products and services, selecting and training employees, facilitating organizational learning and development, and developing systems to support operations, innovation and human resources. These outcomes are lead indicators of financial success and wealth creation in organizations. Students will be given an overview of the various elements of the strategic leadership system, including organizational context/environment, leader's life stream of biographic and demographic elements influencing leadership, and followers' perceptions the leader's behavior. Emphasis in this course is placed on learning from "real world" senior managers/administrators to enhance the practicality and usefulness of the material covered in the course. As the course progresses, new knowledge and skills are integrated into a more sophisticated framework for understanding strategic leadership.