LD902 - Organizational Leadership
Course Description
Overview
Organizational Leadership provides a practical introduction to leadership by focusing on what it means to be a good leader and how leadership is practiced in ongoing organizations.
You'll explore leadership traits, skill development, vision-setting, listening to out-group members, conflict management, overcoming obstacles, and ethics in leadership while applying insights directly to your own leadership performance.
Organizational leadership helps leaders set strategic goals while motivating individuals to achieve them. This course examines leadership skills, traits, and behaviors and supports learners in applying concepts to their leadership development.
Who This Is For
Managers, supervisors, team leaders, emerging leaders, community leaders, faculty and staff, and entry-level employees interested in leadership.
What You’ll Leave With
- Identify your leadership philosophy, traits, skills, and behaviors through self-assessment questionnaires.
- Develop an understanding of how leadership is practiced in ongoing organizations.
- Establish a framework for your unique leadership style, including strengths, weaknesses, and ways to improve.
Series Structure
Practical leadership skills for real workplace situations
Readings, videos, assignments, and leadership self-assessments
Clearer leadership style, stronger decision-making, improved effectiveness
Course Content Outline
Module 1: Understanding Leadership
Define your beliefs about leadership, including leadership as a trait, ability, skill, behavior, relationship, and process. Compare leadership and management and distinguish destructive vs. effective leadership.
- Summarize six emphasis areas essential to leadership
- Discuss leadership vs. management
- Identify destructive vs. effective leadership
- Complete a leadership assessment
Module 2: Recognizing Your Traits
Explore six traits in effective leaders: intelligence, confidence, charisma, determination, sociability, and integrity—using real leadership examples and your own assessment.
- Explain six key traits of successful leaders
- Compare leadership of renowned figures
- Complete a leadership assessment
Module 3: Understanding Leadership Styles
Identify leadership styles (authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire) and analyze Theory X and Theory Y and their implications for leadership performance.
- Analyze implications of Theory X and Theory Y
- Compare leadership styles
- Complete a leadership assessment
Module 4: Attending to Tasks and Relationships
Learn why effective leaders must be both task-oriented and relationship-oriented, and assess your patterns of behavior.
- Compare task vs. relationship-oriented styles
- Explain why both are essential
- Complete a leadership assessment
Module 5: Developing Leadership Skills
Build capability across administrative, interpersonal, and conceptual leadership skills and assess how you can strengthen each area.
- Develop administrative skills
- Strengthen interpersonal skills
- Apply conceptual skills to challenges
- Complete a leadership assessment
Module 6: Engaging Your Strengths
Explore strength-based leadership, identify strengths, and apply strategies to become more effective as a leader.
- Assess the role of strengths in leadership development
- Engage your strengths to build effective teams
- Complete a leadership assessment
Module 7: Creating a Vision
Understand how leaders create and implement compelling visions—then assess your ability to create vision in your context.
- Identify five characteristics of a vision
- Translate vision into reality through leadership skills
- Complete a leadership assessment
Module 8: Exploring Destructive Leadership
Examine destructive leadership using the Toxic Triangle (destructive leaders, susceptible followers, conducive environments) and learn practical ways to confront and reduce toxic leadership.
- Describe three components of destructive leadership
- Analyze methods to address toxic leadership across leader/follower/context
- Complete a leadership assessment