COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to provide students with the basic principles of personal and interpersonal leadership that can be used in any life arena. The course will explore variables that affect productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency, and a variety of interpersonal skill-sets. Emphasis will be placed on vision, goals & objectives, motivation, decision-making, time management, power, team building, conflict, ethics, dealing with change, communication skills, and diversity issues. In addition, we will explore a variety of other topics, including developing your personal leadership style, and organizational politics.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Describe the changing global context of leadership
and of the new leadership models that are emerging in response to these
changes.
- Explain the personal leadership needs of
organizations
- Discuss the personal leadership practices needed to
support the new leadership models.
- Explain the role of “positive leadership” in
shaping high performance individuals and organizations.
- Describe the role teams and time management in
leaders success
- Describe the power of engagement, flow and meaning
in leadership.
- Apply positive shift in your leadership
understanding, and practice.
COURSE CONTENT
- Understanding your Personality
- Developing Assertiveness
Competencies
- Foundations of Leadership
- Leadership Principles
- Leadership theories
- Team Skills
- Time Management Skills
- Leadership Skills (Life Skills
and Professional Etiquettes)
- Personal Development
Planning
COMPULSORY READING MATERIAL
- Hughes, Richard L., Ginnett, Robert C., and
Curphy, Gordon C., Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience (7th ed.).
- Hughes, Richard L., Ginnett, Robert C., and
Curphy, Gordon C., Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience (6th ed.).
Chicago: Irwin, 2009
OPTIONAL READING MATERIALS
- Lyubomirsky,
Sonja; The how of happiness : a
scientific approach to getting the life you want; Penguin Press, 2008
- Gardner, John W., On Leadership, New York: The
Free Press, 1990
- Kellerman, Barbara, Bad Leadership, Boston:
Harvard Business School Press, 2004.