BUMO 758L

Leadership development is the process of enhancing your skills to influence and organize others to accomplish key goals. It goes beyond leadership theories by focusing on building skills to inspire and organize people to achieve tangible results. The approach taken in this class follows that used by most effective leadership development programs: comprehensive self-assessments, experiential exercises, action learning projects, and individually tailored skill-improvement plans.
As a result of taking this course, you will:

• Obtain broad feedback on your unique strengths, proficiencies and development needs.
• Create and implement a self-development plan for enhancing your leadership skills.
• Improve your skills for communicating with and organizing diverse people.
• Increase your capacity to lead others in challenging or stressful situations.
• Exercise personal leadership in a team project.