Course Description:

This course examines how to be a successful (that is, effective) leader. Based on D. Quinn Mills' book, Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live, a text used at Harvard Business School, this course asks the crucial questions about leadership in today's organizations: What is leadership and why is it important? What does effective leadership require? What is visionary leadership? What is the role of charisma? What is the difference between managing, administering, and leading?

Course Objectives:

• What isLeadership?
• Importance ofVision
• LeadershipSkills
• LeadershipArchetypes
• Situational LeadershipModel
• The Risks of LeadingChange
• Scenarios

Course Content:

• Define leadership and explain itsimportance
• Discuss some of the better-known leadership theories (Fiedler's contingencytheory)
• Importance of Vision / how to set & write avision
• Distinguish leadership from management andadministration
• Explain the role of ethics inleadership
• Discuss the positives and negatives surrounding charismaticleadership
• Recognize the importance of training, learning, and role-playing inleadership
• Discuss the seven bases forleadership
• Explain why formal authority alone does not guaranteeleadership
• Discuss the key qualities forleadership
• Identify the central skills needed for effective leadership and explain ways to strengthen or develop those skills in aleader