MLD 483 Applied Leadership Capstone

Lecture Hours: 5
Credits: 5

Broaden and build leadership capacity and capability for creating, maintaining and growing high engagement organizations across multiple stakeholder groups. Focuses on individual, team and organization human dynamics, that impacts function, form and systems is explored. Gain awareness for understanding skills that foster organizational human processes for development of high commitment organizations. Build individual capacity to lead, engage and manage change in business management.

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

Create opportunities to Lead

Develop a Leadership Mindset: Recognize and create opportunities for leadership in yourself and others by proactively identifying challenges and stepping into leadership roles.
Sustain Long-Term Leadership Growth: Manage yourself effectively to stay engaged in leadership over time, balancing resilience, energy, and well-being to navigate the demands of leadership as a marathon, not a sprint.
Empower and Mobilize Others: Identify who needs to do the work and create opportunities for others to lead by distributing responsibility, fostering collaboration, and working across factions to drive collective progress.
Communicate Change and Challenge Effectively: Speak to loss with clarity and empathy, helping teams navigate the discomfort of change while maintaining focus on shared goals and long-term impact.

Content Outline

Application of Management Principles
- Design communication programming for change initiatives
- Analyze cross-functional team structure for change initiatives
Identify Personal Style of Management
- Craft enterprise-wide leadership paradigms.
- Strategize enterprise level response to external change forces.
Produce Plan to Connect With Industry Stakeholder Leaders
- Identify specific stakeholders of influence within the industry sector.
- Understand which key leaders of stakeholder agencies to emulate.
Identify Successful Stakeholder Agency Leaders
- Produce model of successful stakeholder agency.
- Articulate reasoning for stakeholder agency management style.