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:

Understand the application of management principles for individual industry sectors.
Explore personal style and approach to leadership across diverse stakeholders.
Explain management responsibilities and opportunities for enhancing performance stakeholder leadership.
Develop approach to specific industry management structures.

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.