Leadership Courses

MGMT 3061 Leadership in Practice: Everyday Moments of Leadership Course Description

Every day, life gives us opportunities to practice leadership: experiencing group conflicts, recognizing the achievements of a classmate, overhearing an offensive joke, observing microaggressions, sharing innovative ideas with your team. In this course, you will learn how to investigage and respond to these moments of leadership using fundamental leadership science and frameworks grounded in theory and empirical evidence. These moments provide a chance to do something different, often through understanding complex issues, navigating change, showing empathy, and influencing others. 

The course will expose you to fundamental leadership science and frameworks backed by leadership theory and empirical evidence. You will focus on understanding personal leadership strengths and vulnerabilities through assessments, reflection, and feedback. To improve your leadership capabilities, you must know from what point you are starting. Throughout the class, there will be reflection exercises and assessments that will help you understand your values, default traits, and work styles as you navigate everyday moments of leadership.

Each semester, several guest speakers visit the class to share how they practice leadership in their everyday lives and careers. These sessions provide diverse perspectives on how leadership can be demonstrated across different contexts and experiences. 

In addition to classroom learning, you complete a Personal Best Leadership Project, where you apply the concepts from the course to your own life and the groups you are part of. This project gives you the opportunity to put leadership theory into practice by exploring your personal approach to leadership and reflecting on your development throughout the semester. 

Leadership skills are best learned by integrating and applying evidence-based theoretical concepts to practical situations. These skills are difficult to meaningfully assess with exams and typical assignments. Thus, we will learn with practical exercises and the application of course materials to your life as a leader. The experiential learning of the class will allow you to navigate leadership moments and bring the course concepts to life.

MGMT 3063 Leadership in Action

Course Description

Leadership In Action prepares students to translate leadership theory into practice. Students work with a client on real-world leadership challenges by applying the frameworks from Everyday Moments of Leadership. By the end of the course, students will have identified, analyzed, and proposed solutions to leadership challenges for a client.

The Department of Work and Organizations approaches leadership development from six perspectives: academic foundation, experiential education, relational guidance, research infrastructure, cultural immersion, and community connections. This course focuses on experiential education and relational guidance. The experiential learning portion of the class will allow you to navigate leadership moments and bring the course concepts to life. Plus, you will have the opportunity to work one-to-one with a coach throughout the semester as you explore your leadership style and work to solve real-world, leadership challenges.