Leadership

Catalog description

This course examines leadership, influence, and power across a variety of disciplines, with a strong emphasis on ethics. This course focuses on a Transformational based approach to leadership and leadership development as well as the skills necessary for facilitating positive change in groups, organizations, and communities. Active learning opportunities to understand and practice essential skills such as continual learning, powerful communication, problem solving, managing process, goal achievement, conflict resolution, win-win negotiating, and empowering stewardship are woven throughout the course. Effective leadership practice through emphasis on strengths development is the goal of this class. Historical, literary, and contemporary examples of successful leaderships provide a framework for examining the theories and practice of leadership and power. Prerequisite: PSY 113 or SM 393