Leadership Dynamics
This demanding online course requires a minimum commitment of 40 learning hours over twelve weeks, including a weekly 45 minute facilitated discussion lead by your instructor. Carefully crafted to enable you to learn both about leadership and how to lead, the course brings you on a development journey in which you learn about yourself, develop your leadership skills (applying learning as you go), and – working with classmates – learn by doing. The course also helps you contextualize learning through exercises in your workplace to enable you to build on your learning at work and throughout your career.
Course Details
Topics and concepts you will study in the course include:
- Leadership theories (including transactional leadership, transformative leadership, laissez-faire leadership, authentic leadership, servant leadership, situational leadership, visionary leadership, shared leadership, and distributed leadership)
- Followership
- Leadership development
- Authority and Responsibility
- Self Efficacy
- Emotional Intelligence
- Race, gender, culture, introversion and extroversion
- Communication and persuasion
- Vision, future focus, and strategy
- Decision Making
In addition, you will study yourself through a course-long journaling exercise and participate in some peer-mentoring to help you learn how to give and receive feedback.
What you will learn
Following successful completion of this course, participants will:
- Be familiar with leadership theories and have developed a robust understanding of leadership, and followership while cultivating their own leadership approach
- Have insight into how leadership development works and how to develop other leaders
- Understand formal and informal authority, what it is to wield power, and what the abuse of power is
- Understand how factors such as race, gender, and culture influence behavior and perceptions of leadership
- Understand the concept of self-efficacy and its importance for leadership and leadership development
- Realize the importance of self-awareness and self-reflection
- Know how to be authentic while still changing what you do and how you do it and have practiced mentoring others (an important leadership skill), and moving themselves from a “current self” to a “future self”
- Have practiced the leadership skills of communicating, planning, giving and receiving feedback
- Be able to identify and analyze both good and bad leadership
- Have greater self-awareness and self-efficacy
Course duration
12 weeks @ 3+ Hours per week
Class size
Minimum of 8
Target Audience
- Seasoned, experienced leaders who wish to revitalize their thinking on leadership
- Aspiring or newly appointed managers in public or private sector organizations of all sizes
- People with responsibility for leading or managing others, such as crew chiefs, floor managers, nurses, police officers, and supervisors
- HR professionals and anyone with an interest in understanding leadership and organizational behavior
