MLD 482 Applied Leadership 2

Lecture Hours: 5
Credits: 5

Broaden leadership capacity and capability for creating, maintaining and growing high performance organizations. Focused on individual, team and organization human dynamics that impacts function, form and systems is explored. Understand skills that foster organizational human processes for development of high-performance organizations. Build individual capacity to lead, engage and manage change in multiple unit business entities.

Prerequisite: Entry into the Applied Leadership Baccalaureate Program; or completion of AAS degree; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Navigate Complexity with Confidence: Develop the ability to explore tough interpretations of challenges, recognizing multiple perspectives and uncovering deeper insights in complex situations.
Assess and Adapt to Team Dynamics: Learn to take the temperature of your team and organization, identifying tensions, emotions, and readiness for change to respond with empathy and strategic action.
Lead with Purpose and Experimentation: Strengthen your ability to hold to purpose while acting experimentally, balancing long-term vision with a willingness to test new approaches and adapt to evolving circumstances.
Foster Trust and Well-being: Build a trustworthy decision-making process and cultivate a culture of self-care, ensuring that both you and your team maintain resilience, well-being, and sustainable leadership practices.

Content Outline

Application of Management Principles
- Define communication programming for multi-unit entities
- Explain team-based structures to drive business outcomes across multiple business units
Identify Personal Style of Leadership
- Understand diverse leadership tendencies.
- Establish a system to manage change and improvement within a leadership team
Produce Plan to Connect With Industry Sector Leaders
- Identify specific leaders of influence within the industry sector
- Understand which key leaders of the industry sector to emulate.
Identify Successful Industry Sector Leaders
- Produce model of successful industry sector leader.
- Articulate reasoning for sector leader management style.