Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
MGT 3435 - Leadership in Practice
This course enables students to develop their perspectives, skills, and techniques to put strategic leadership into practice. It draws on the broad concepts of strategic leadership of knowing business or industry from multiple perspectives; demonstrating agility or cognitive flexibility to set and achieve goals; mobilizing leadership of self and others through collaboration, communication, and teamwork; and executing analysis to competitively drive results to create a viable future. This course uses preflection, reading, research, lectures, discussion, reflection, and active and experiential learning, culminating in a semester-long, team-based leadership simulation focused on sustainability.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to define key factors and issues relevant to effective strategic leadership in practice, communication, and teamwork.
- Students will be able to demonstrate their strategic leadership practices, including thinking, analysis abilities, agility in decision making, team building, outcomes, collaboration, and continuous learning concepts in a leadership simulation.
- Students will be able to articulate, discuss, and reflect on effective leadership and team skills such as the importance of communication regarding alignment, guidelines, or shared expectations or norms of a team.
- Students will be able to utilize and manage conflict to improve decision-making and accomplish team objectives.
- Students will be able to create an end-product proposal that is likely to be executed upon and gain buy-in using and refining executive communication and presence skills.
- Students will be able to assess their leadership practice and describe how they might modify it in future situations.
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