This course takes you through the leadership process from the current research perspectives to the personal side of leadership; leadership as a relationship builder, and the leader as a social architect. In this course you will:

• Discuss what it means to be a leader

• Examine the ages old leadership paradigm of leadership as traits, behaviors or contingencies

• Evaluate culture as a contingency factor of leadership

• Analyze the leader as an individual and what influences courage and moral leadership

• Assess the value of followership

• Discuss how a leader can enhance motivation and empowerment

• Analyze group dynamics and how to lead global teams

• Examine how to manage diversity of ideas, cultures, values, and points of view in global teams

• Determine the role of power and influence on a leader’s success

• Determine how a leader can give strategic direction to shape culture and values

• Learn how to lead for and manage change