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Assessing Your Leadership Capability
LDR 4200 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Online
Organizations are only as effective as the individuals who work in them. This course focuses on enhancing students' individual awareness, reflection, and effectiveness as leaders. Through a focus on self assessment, participants will learn to appreciate the differences between themselves and others and deepen their understanding of what motivates people in the working environment. In this program orientation, students will be introduced to the methodologies and processes that are essential aspects of leadership: competency development and planning, action learning, and mentoring. In addition, students will be assessed on their leadership capabilities and use these outcomes to determine their focus for development.
Establishing the Framework: What Is Leadership?
LDR 4210 / 3 q.h.
July 23 - August 18
Burlington (Hybrid) MW 5:45 PM-8:45 PM
June 25 - August 18
Online
Providing the foundation from which the other program elements build, this course asks the essential questions, “What is leadership?” “What does it take to be a leader?” and asks of students, “What does it take to be a leader in my organization?” Both classic and contemporary models are explored. As the nature of leadership is multidimensional, a single definition is insufficient. The nature of leadership is explored through various perspectives to deepen and enrich students’ appreciation of its complexity. The activity-rich experience in this course will provide learners with ongoing feedback from their peers and opportunities for growth and development.
Evidence-Based Leadership and Decision Making
LDR 4220 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Online
Leadership is not an exact science; decisions cannot be prescribed with absolute certainty. How, then, does a leader know when to act? By what criteria do we make decisions, when our access to information may be incomplete? This course is designed to increase a leader's information literacy for decision making. Students will be given the tools to identify and translate knowledge needs into clear, focused, answerable questions; match information needs with the most effective information resources, and retrieve the best available evidence; appraise the new information for its validity and relevance; and apply the new information when making leadership decisions.
Ethical Decision Making
LDR 4230 / 3 q.h.
July 23 - August 18
Boston (Hybrid) TuTh 5:45 PM-8:45 PM
June 25 - July 21
Burlington (Hybrid) MW 5:45 PM-8:45 PM
June 25 - August 18
Online
The fact that there is not one universal set of leader behaviors one considers ethical and no guidelines to follow to determine ethical behavior poses unique challenges to managers today. Yet, as managers we are daily faced with situations where individual values may conflict with those of our teams or organizations. Applying a decision-making model using real-world ethical dilemmas, participants will analyze behaviors and consequences and make recommendations for actions ethical managers can make.
Leadership Practicum
LDR 4240 / 3 q.h.
June 25 - August 18
Boston (Hybrid) M 5:45 PM-8:45 PM
Online
This practicum integrates theory and practice through a structured consulting experience working with organizations or conducting an applications-oriented research study. Students will be introduced to the problem-solving consulting model. From problem identification through recommendations, student teams will work with decision makers to solve organizational leadership issue or conduct practical research studies. |
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