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My COurses
My COurses
Below are some of my courses that I've taken at Indiana University Indianapolis that have helped shape my understanding of leadership.
Academic and Strategic Plan.docxAbove is a strategic plan that was developed in my Introduction to Organizational Leadership course taken in Spring 2024.
Introduction to Organizational leadership
Introduction to Organizational leadership
This course was a great introductory course into organizational leadership. We explored various leadership styles and began to reflect on which one we want to align with. This course offered basic definitions and perspectives of leadership styles that I will develop on in later courses. The development of a personal strategic plan aligns with implementing personal, professional, or organizational strategies, which is the first concept of the Organizational Leadership Program Learning Outcomes. My main takeaway from this course is the significance of goals and how essential they are for achieving what I intend to accomplish. The artifact I've chosen represents my original plan for my academic journey and the goals I want to accomplish.
Personal Ethics Action Plan.docxMy Ethical Decisions in Leadership Paper from the Ethical Decisions in Leadership course taken in Spring of 2024.
Ethical Decisions in leadership
Ethical Decisions in leadership
This course provided insights into how important it is to remain ethical in decision-making. My biggest takeaway from this class is the different case studies I participated in that explored real scenarios of unethical decision-making of leaders in organizations. This class aligns with both ethical issues influencing organizational decisions and the understanding of ethical values in public service. My biggest takeaways from this course are the impact of leaders within organizations on their unethical decision-making and how it can negatively impact stakeholders. This class helped me realize that as a future leader, I need to not only be smart with the decisions I make but also remain ethical. My artifact I chose for this class, explores ethical decision-making and a case study of a huge organization and the impact of their decision-making. This artifact aligned with the problem-solving IU learning profiles by creating ethical solutions for Apple to follow within the case study prompt provided.
Final Presentation.pptxAbove is a PowerPoint on my group's project we delivered as the major assignment in this course in Fall of 2024.
Project management & Planning
Project management & Planning
This class was very helpful with breaking down a huge project into different phases (Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing). These phases help keep activities organized as a project is being completed. This class covers the project management techniques for the completion of organizational activities, an outcome for Organizational Leadership. This artifact represents my group's project that we completed and presented to the class. This project helped give hands-on experience with creating important documents like a project charter, work breakdown structure, list of stakeholders and risks, project team structure, GANTT chart, and RACI chart. This artifact meets the innovator and communicator learning IU profiles. My group created a project designed to build a student organization by raising money to help with hurricane and disaster relief. This topic was inspired by all of the flooding and hurricanes in mid-2024. This project involved a lot of communication with important deadlines and deliverables that made up half of our grade in the class.
Reflection Paper - Employee Relations.docxAbove is my end-of-the-semester reflection paper over my Spring 2025 Employee Relations course.
EMployEE RELations
EMployEE RELations
This class is extremely important for future Human Resource professionals, supervisors, managers, and leaders to follow state and federal employment laws. While this class covers my HR minor, it does touch on the ethical issues of the program objectives and the responsibilities of supervisors, managers, and leaders. My artifact I chose is a reflection paper on the class and the information I learned. A major takeaway is the introduction of the Civil Rights Act and the impact of Title VII on organizations. This law forced organizations to become more diverse since leaders could no longer discriminate against protected groups legally anymore. This relates to the objective of distinguishing ways diverse workplace contexts affect organizational behavior and leadership.
Research Project Plan_Bruce.docxMy capstone research project about the relationship between motivation and positive job outcomes.
Management, Leadership, & Policy
Management, Leadership, & Policy
This class helped wrap up everything I learned in college by challenging me to come up with a research topic and conduct primary and secondary research. This paper was the most stressful thing about my final semester, but I feel more confident in doing similar work in my professional career. This project covers the communicator, innovator, and problem-solving IU undergraduate learning profiles. This project also covers the last program objective for COLS by designing research studies to identify a problem, design a research purpose, create a research question or hypothesis, collect, analyze and interpret data, and arrive at reasoned conclusions. While this project I would describe as a difficult process, it helped with critical thinking by identifying a problem and trying to see if there's a solution to the problem.
Applied Leadership Philosophy.docxMy Applied Leadership Philosophy & Strategy Paper
Leadership Applications
Leadership Applications
This class also helped wrap up everything I've learned in the COLS program. This paper allowed me to define what my future leadership philosophy is based on the material we covered in all required classes of the COLS program. This class, in general, covers all of the program learning outcomes since this is a capstone course of the COLS program. This paper would cover the innovator IU learning outcome since I'm truly innovating how I want to lead in the future.
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