...ORG300: Applying Leadership Principles Credit Hours: | 3 | Contact Hours: | This is a 3-credit course, offered in accelerated format. This means that 16 weeks of material is covered in 8 weeks. The exact number of hours per week that you can expect to spend on each course will vary based upon the weekly coursework, as well as your study style and preferences. You should plan to spend 10-25 hours per week in each course reading material, interacting on the discussion boards, writing papers, completing projects, and doing research. | Faculty Information Name: Phone: CSU-GC Email: Virtual Office Hours: Course Description and Outcomes This required first course for all majors provides an overview of leadership basics. In the context of studying at CSU-Global Campus, students will develop strategies for success in the online learning environment. The course engages students in discussion, exploration and application of leadership skills, principles and practices. Students will learn about the relationships and connections among leaders, individuals, and organizations. Topics include strategy, communication, motivation, power, organizational change, and workplace conflict. Additionally this course relates leadership skill to those skills needed to be a successful lifelong and online learner. Course Learning Outcomes 1. Describe social problems, the various perspectives on problems, and possible solutions. 2. Apply knowledge of a particular major or discipline to pressing...
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...Leadership Roles in the Workplace Prepared for Management and Supervision MGT-410 Instructor Ms. Jacqueline Carreras Prepared by Connie Burns-Marshall Management-Skills and Application by Rue & Byars book have a lot of useful information. It focuses on the essential skills that are needed to become a successful manager. It’s a roadmap for critical thinking that’s needed in leadership where problem solving, decision-making and empowerment are daily routine roles. Senior management value leaders that can focused on accomplishing organizational objectives accurately and efficiently with these professional skill sets. At the end of each chapter the questions are designed to promote critical thinking as a leader. (Rue, p. 3) Healthy control of my emotional intelligence is another important attribute that’s needed in the workplace and is related to critical thinking skills, since a calm head allows me to engage more effectively; both attributes can help me establish better relationships with co-workers, senior and middle management and external resources. Stress and challenges are common in practically all workplaces and jobs. Healthy emotional responses and expressions in response to stressful situations will help me project an image of professionalism, avoid negative consequences and maintain an open mind for critical thinking. If I have better control over my emotions I will typically show poise and patience in response to a stressful...
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...Course Schedule Course Schedule of Assignments Overview Session | Topic | Assignments | 1 | The Manager as a Systems Thinker | Discussion Activity 1 | 2 | The Manager as a Critical Thinker | Individual Paper 1 | 3 | Legal and Ethical Environment of Business: The Manager as an Ethical Decision Maker | Discussion Activity 2 | 3 | Team Work Plan | Team assignment | 4 | Organization Theory and Design | Discussion Activity 3 | 5 | Organization Theory and Design in the Global Environment | Team Project 1Individual Matching Exercise | 6 | Legal Environment: Courts, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Agency | Discussion Activity 4 | 7 | Critical Thinking in the Legal Environment: Torts and Products Liability | Individual Paper 2 Discussion Activity 5 | 8 | Legal Environment: Contracts and Forms of Business Organizations | Discussion Activity 6 | 9 | Knowledge Integration | Take-home Final | 10 | Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global and Technological Environment | Team Project 2 | Assignment Details Session | Module/Topics Readings/Assignments | 1 | The Manager as a Systems ThinkerObjective 1: Apply models of critical thinking and systems thinking to address complex organizational issues.Objective 2: Reflect on seminar assignments and relate the skills and knowledge gained to personal and professional goalsCompetency : Systems Thinking | Read the following articles which you can find and download from the UMUC library...
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...Leadership Development Seminars and ECQ-based Readings The success or failure of any endeavor depends on leadership. Now, more than ever before, we need leaders in our organizations and in our world. Great leaders create and communicate a vision and move people into action to achieve it. They ignite our passion and inspire us to do our best. Government leaders in the 21st century are experiencing change at a more rapid pace than previous generations. Rapid advances in technology have expanded the quantity of work we are capable of accomplishing, and also where it’s accomplished. We have a more highly educated workforce, yet face diminishing resources with an increased demand for productivity, and the essential services we provide to the American public. To be successful at navigating these challenges leaders must develop the essential skills to motivate their employees, effectively communicate with others, fine-tune critical thinking skills, and build and leverage partnerships. Future leaders must also be visionary; i.e., possess the ability to identify trends and the courage to be innovative. Being technically adept in your field will no longer be enough. In response to these demands on senior executives, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management identified five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) that all aspiring government leaders and executives must possess. These ECQs and Fundamental Competencies were developed by OPM after extensive research on the attributes...
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...Leadership Development Seminars and ECQ-based Readings The success or failure of any endeavor depends on leadership. Now, more than ever before, we need leaders in our organizations and in our world. Great leaders create and communicate a vision and move people into action to achieve it. They ignite our passion and inspire us to do our best. Government leaders in the 21st century are experiencing change at a more rapid pace than previous generations. Rapid advances in technology have expanded the quantity of work we are capable of accomplishing, and also where it’s accomplished. We have a more highly educated workforce, yet face diminishing resources with an increased demand for productivity, and the essential services we provide to the American public. To be successful at navigating these challenges leaders must develop the essential skills to motivate their employees, effectively communicate with others, fine-tune critical thinking skills, and build and leverage partnerships. Future leaders must also be visionary; i.e., possess the ability to identify trends and the courage to be innovative. Being technically adept in your field will no longer be enough. In response to these demands on senior executives, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management identified five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) that all aspiring government leaders and executives must possess. These ECQs and Fundamental Competencies were developed by OPM after extensive research on the attributes...
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...• ability to communicate effectively • ability to practice competently and skillfully in a changing health-care environment Culture Care Values • ability to preserve/maintain cultural identities • ability to accommodate/negotiate diverse life ways • ability to re-pattern/restructure health-care delivery methods • ability to apply ethical and legal principles to health care The Associate of Science in Nursing Program (ASN) is a two-year program of study combining didactic and clinical nursing courses as well as general education courses. The Program prepares beginning nurses who function as providers and leaders of direct and indirect nursing care for diverse individuals, families, and groups. The ASN graduates function as collaborative members within the discipline of nursing and the health care team. The ASN graduates use basic knowledge of therapeutic nursing interventions, communication, culture, critical thinking,...
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...STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Course Outline for Seminar Groups 3, 5 and 8 ONLY Semester 2 of the Academic Year 2012-2013 Instructor: Clive Choo, awechoo@ntu.edu.sg Learning & Teaching Methods This course is structured in a seminar learning format, where a 4-hour seminar is conducted every week for a total of 13 sessions. Each seminar is intended to inform and equip students with the conceptual tools to synthesize, evaluate and analyze strategic or ethical issues. In addition, seminar activities have been developed to provide opportunities for students to sharpen their critical thinking and ethical reasoning skills through: 1. Case analyses, where students apply the conceptual tools that they have learnt in the seminar to critically analyze different strategic issues. 2. An ethical reasoning exercise (given in pages 7 and 8) where students can apply ethical concepts. 3. A critical thinking exercise where students could analyse specific case study issue with theoretical framework and concepts. 4. A group project, where each student group generates a strategic audit report of a publiclylisted firm. See pages 8 and 9 for details. 5. Collaborative learning, where students work in a group and participate in class discussion so that they learn to defend and/or integrate different perspectives on strategic issues in a critical manner. 6. A final exam, where students apply their knowledge of course material learnt throughout the course in an integrative manner. 1 Course Assessments - Summary ...
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...Schulich School of Business York University Course Outline MGMT 5150K: Skills for Leadership September, 2015 Instructor: Alexandra Campbell acampbell@schulich.yorku.ca COURSE DESCRIPTION This course develops the thinking and reflective skills required for leadership in a turbulent world. Drawing on complexity science, the course applies a multiple perspectives framework to challenge embedded assumptions and advance students’ ability to think creatively, analytically and strategically. Students learn to identify and reframe complex problems more effectively, and to develop and communicate actionable solutions compellingly. This course will introduce MBA students to some of the new mindsets needed for success in today’s turbulent and complex global environment. For example, today’s leaders must have the capacity to accept and deal with unpredictability and be adept at recognizing and integrating multiple perspectives and priorities. They must be able to spot and anticipate emerging trends and patterns; ask and explore provocative questions about their organizations and the world at large; deal with challenging ethical issues; and generally think both “inside” and “outside the box” in a deep and probing way. LEARNING OUTCOMES The course develops and enhances students’ ability to deliver compelling and coherent presentations; to apply analytic, critical and strategic thinking to complex business problems and to reflect and identify underlying assumptions...
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...political environment in Arizona, the state of the economy, and leadership and management principles learned during the course and financial capability. The Arroyo Fresco Case Study will be available for download in the Course Content area. Team members should prepare Project Plan An abbreviated project plan due in Week 5 (format will be provided in the Course Content area) An updated project plan w/status column completed in Week 9 A presentation to the Board of Directors which will be presenting in the conference in Week 11. This can be a Powerpoint presentation, Adobe Acrobat presenter, video, or any creative combination you can think of. The presentation grading will be based on: Organized overview of strategy Persuasiveness of presentation Creativity in presentation Clarity of answers to comments/questions in the conference A brief seven (7) page paper (excluding tile page and reference list), which includes: Discussion of new strategy and whether it is financially viable. Analysis of results of Chapter 7 and the research completed Specific goals/recommendations for the future including generation of revenue. Description of how strategy will be executed and measured Demonstrate critical thinking as a team/individual using Bloom's taxonomy - Demonstrate knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Your ability to demonstrate the highest levels of critical thinking will impact your grade for this...
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...Course Project: Leadership Project Objective | Content Guidelines | Project Guidelines | Milestones | Grading Rubrics | Best Practices | | Objective | | TCO 5: Given an example of a role model or mentor, such as a community or industry leader, analyze the practices of effective leadership and accountability that contribute to documented success and create an individual plan for employing similar strategies at college and in a career. | | Content Guidelines | | * Define characteristics of an effective leader in your field of study.. * Identify a leader within your field of study who exemplifies positive leadership skills in your field of study. * Indicate your field of study and graduation completion. * Summarize the role of individual accountability as an element of success. * Define personal strengths (based on assessments) and list how they can be used to support success. * Evaluate the roles of critical thinking, leadership, and accountability as critical elements in a personal plan for success. | | Project Guidelines | | There are 2 parts to you Project: The Outline and the PowerPoint Presentation The Outline: * Turn in your outline and reference section in APA format in Week 5 (100 points). * You will need to find appropriate research, create and outline for your project and including a reference section for your project. The reference section should be in APA format. The outline should contain at least three in-text...
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...equally. John F. Kennedy was this ethical leader. During his tenure as President he faced many social and moral dilemmas where unethical practices were called in to question. He addressed one such issue when he used ethical leadership and critical thinking to lead a nation in recognizing equality for women. On December 14, 1961, President Kennedy established the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women to investigate women’s equality in education, in the workplace, and under the law (“Presidential Commission on the Status of Women”, n.d.). He wanted “to call attention to the unconscionable practice of paying female...
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...Natalia Perez Portfolio September 28, 2012 Table of Contents Statement of Authenticity …………………………………………………………………...……3 Personal Mission Statement……………………………………………………………………….4 Elevator Speech …………………………………………..………………………………………5 Education………………………………………………………………………………………….6 Resume…………………………………………………………………………………………….9 Professional development and Training ……………………………………………………..…..10 Reference…………………………………………………………………………………..…….11 Reference List …………………………………………………………………………….……..12 Awards and Accomplishments …………………………………………………………….……13 Volunteer History ………………………………………………………………………………..14 Professional Affiliations …………………………………………….…………………………..15 Career Path ………………………………………………………………..……………………..16 Work Samples ………………………………………………………………………...…………17 Statement of Authenticity I, Ani Ohanian am the writer of all of the statements you are about to read. None of these statements of information is plagiarized. All of the information you are going to read is valid. These statements are honest representation of what I represent in skills as a career in the Business Administration field. Personal Mission Statement I am a smart, determined and compassionate woman that will not give up on my dreams. I will not let anything get in the way of my success as it is for me and my family. I will...
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...TEAM MANAGEMENT MANA 4330, Section 001 Fall, 2010 Instructor: Dr. Terrance A. Wilensky Phone: 817- 272-0233(office); 214.735.7000 (cell) Office: 216 COBA E-Mail: twilensky@uta.edu Office Hours: 3:00-4:30 Tuesday and Thursday or by appointment Course Time & Location Tuesday and Thursday 11-12:20 PM COBA 245W Required Text: Lumsden, G., Lumsden, D., & Weithoff, C. (2010). Communicating in Groups and Teams: Sharing Leadership (5th. ed). Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning Course Content All organizations depend on people to carry out their tasks and work toward common goals, whether you work for a large or small corporation, a federal or state agency, or own your own business. Much of the time we spend working in organizations we spend working in teams. This course is designed to familiarize you with the dynamics of working in teams, to become more effective team members, and to lead teams. To accomplish this, we will examine a number of factors that influence team member interaction and ultimately team performance through lectures, slides, films, demonstrations, cases, and student class presentations. Additionally, this course is intended to provide you with the understanding and skill necessary to communicate effectively in any group, whether it is a social club, a religious organization, or a high-level executive committee in your future career. But it goes more specifically to your preparation for the intensive work in teams that...
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...Critical thinking is very important to the course material and research when you are evaluating something you must think about the desired outcome and analyze all possible battle and potential outcomes. One of the aspects of critical thinking that I still need to develop would be communicating affectively when working complex situations. I am very open minded and will gather as much information as I can to get my desired outcome but once I’ve made up my mind I’m pretty much done and won’t consider what other people have to say about my desired outcome. Being in a leadership position I am charged with helping soldiers gather resources and solve complex situations so critical thinking is very important so that I can make sure my soldiers are...
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...University of Phoenix Material Critical Thinking Worksheet Chose one of the following scenarios: You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day that your research is due, and you concentrate most of your time on your individual assignment. The paper takes longer than you thought, and you are unable to conduct research for the group project by the deadline. You feel bad about this and do not respond to inquiries from group members. You post a message to the group explaining you are having computer problems. The group expresses their empathy and proceeds without you, completing and submitting the project with your name included. * A position opens in your department at work. You recommend to a coworker and friend in another department that she should apply. You previously consulted with this person on small projects, and she appears knowledgeable and responsible. In fact, you became friends through these work contacts. Your friend appreciates your recommendation and arranges a meeting to ask you more details about the work done by your department. The meeting is productive...
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