Leadership 2.0 - Decision Making, Planning, Change Management, and Stakeholder Engagement BUSA 1160

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Improve Decision Making
• Assess personal and organizational barriers and traps to effective decision making
• Identify individual decision making styles and their potential impacts
• Understand when to utilize individual or group decision making
• Refine Planning and Productivity skills and strategies
• Identify and develop strategies to address procrastination and other common productivity barriers
• Construct and apply strategies for effective meetings
• Identify and develop planning tools and processes to effectively respond to organizational priorities and environmental changes
• Facilitate Change Management
• Identify individual change response styles and their impact on change leadership
• Evaluate change theories and describe processes for facilitating organizational change
• Analyze a current change initiative within an organization and identify opportunities to enhance the success change
• Understand Stakeholder Engagement
• Discuss an action plan for organizations to effectively and ethically deal with its stakeholders
• Debate the changing nature of the relations between the organization and its stakeholders
• Develop action plans to minimize the adverse consequences of crisis situations to business organizations and their stakeholders
• Apply issues management concepts to analyze the actual and potential challenges faced by business organizations

Effective as of Fall 2015