Business Acumen

Catalog description

This course centers on providing students with business acumen needed to enact successful talent management and organization development careers. Specifically, the course will heighten students' understanding of how to diagnose an organization's strategic landscape, competitors, and positioning, as well as its financial health and operations to identify needed change interventions and to leverage talent. Students will learn to develop a business case for change at various levels, including program return on investment and impacts, and how to measure the effectiveness of interventions. Prerequisite: None.