In this course, you will begin to develop and enrich your leadership skills, while exploring historical trends in management through the lens of leadership theories and behaviors. In the leadership role, you will analyze and apply concepts and models to real organizational situations. Through self-assessments, explore your own leadership style, skills, and goals to create a personal leadership profile that will grow throughout the program.

In this course, you will continue your journey of leadership development through introspective reflection, examining your personal/organization values in business and societal settings. You will develop skills in ethical decision making to further enhance organizational performance and goal achievement.

Today’s organization is immersed in a competitive and dynamic environment requiring adaptive organizational structures to increase capacity and create a framework for development and growth. Within the organizational environment, leaders must be equipped to resolve conflict. The emphasis in this course is on leadership and relationship styles among individuals within the organization. You will develop skills needed to lead diverse teams, develop others, and apply strategies to create a culture of continuous improvement.

Leading change is one of the most important and difficult challenges facing any leader. This course is an introduction to the role of leadership in managing change and responding to organizational crises. As a leader, you will analyze strategies for managing change as a constant state, evaluate situations for potential crises, and develop proactive approaches for crisis management. Effective communication strategies are key to successfully leading through these situations.

Organizational strategy is impacted by increasing globalization, uncertainty in the marketplace, and disruptive innovation. Leaders must respond by creating an organizational learning culture to promote strategic innovation, and adapt and grow in a constantly changing environment. This course helps you build the capacity for strategic leadership to meet organizational challenges. In the role of leader, you will learn to develop leadership strategies, skills, and tools required for creating a plan to reinforce organizational strategies and competitive growth.

You will learn to use data analytics that can be used for leadership development to guide your decisions, set priorities, and determine where to invest your times and resources. You will also utilize data analytics to assess an organization’s ability to effectively use data to compete in the 21st century marketplace.

In this capstone course, you will have the opportunity to apply the concepts and principles that you have learned throughout your Master of Science in Organizational Leadership program, after you first identify a challenge or issue that you choose to investigate, utilizing an organization that you are familiar with. This can include issues of diversity and awareness, communication problems, leadership issues, and conflict, to name a few. You will begin by recognizing the applicable stakeholders and then use relevant knowledge and data to construct a plan for addressing and resolving the challenge. The project will culminate in the creation of an assessment strategy for evaluating plan results. An important component of this course is a comprehensive self-analysis of your preparedness to act in a leadership role including an understanding of your own bias’, through the finalization of your Personal Leadership Profile that you have been working on throughout your degree program.