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:

Evaluate the impact of leadership and management actions and decisions on groups across various stakeholder groups inside with outside of organization and industry.
Compare and contrast organizational leadership and management across multiple stakeholder groups.
Outline personal leadership and management plan that effectively deploys personal strengths and capacities within various stakeholder groups.
Demonstrate effective collaboration and communication skills with various stakeholders.

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.