Leadership by Design, Spring 2009
As we move forward into the 21st Century, success in meeting the challenges and opportunities facing us depends on the effectiveness of those leading and managing organizations. This course invites inquiry into these fundamental societal roles and provides the opportunity to explore and develop your individual leadership and management profile.
Today's organizations are becoming more complex and require a greater reliance on interdependent work. A new leadership skill set is emerging that is based on participative management, building and maintaining relationships, and change management. In addition, tomorrow's leader/managers will be expected to exercise a more collective version of leadership, where process skills are fundamental and leadership is shared by many. This course will explore the elements of team and organizational contexts that can be "designed" to support healthy working relationships, creative innovative thinking, quality output and optimal performance. Students build on a foundation of self-awareness of management and leadership skills to apply the most current knowledge about creative problem solving, motivation, power, conflict resolution and team building with classmates. Emphasis will be given to developing communication skills, dialectic problem solving, systems thinking and pattern recognition capacities, and change management methodologies. Students will be asked to imagine and "redesign" the roles of leadership and management to meet the requirements of tomorrow's world.
Books:
• Developing Management Skills, 7th Edition, by David A Whetten and Kim S. Cameron
• Emotional and Social Competency Inventory, University Edition (ESCI-U) published by the HayGroup
As we move forward into the 21st Century, success in meeting the challenges and opportunities facing us depends on the effectiveness of those leading and managing organizations. This course invites inquiry into these fundamental societal roles and provides the opportunity to explore and develop your individual leadership and management profile.
Today's organizations are becoming more complex and require a greater reliance on interdependent work. A new leadership skill set is emerging that is based on participative management, building and maintaining relationships, and change management. In addition, tomorrow's leader/managers will be expected to exercise a more collective version of leadership, where process skills are fundamental and leadership is shared by many. This course will explore the elements of team and organizational contexts that can be "designed" to support healthy working relationships, creative innovative thinking, quality output and optimal performance. Students build on a foundation of self-awareness of management and leadership skills to apply the most current knowledge about creative problem solving, motivation, power, conflict resolution and team building with classmates. Emphasis will be given to developing communication skills, dialectic problem solving, systems thinking and pattern recognition capacities, and change management methodologies. Students will be asked to imagine and "redesign" the roles of leadership and management to meet the requirements of tomorrow's world.
Books:
• Developing Management Skills, 7th Edition, by David A Whetten and Kim S. Cameron
• Emotional and Social Competency Inventory, University Edition (ESCI-U) published by the HayGroup