Leadership

• Coursera: Foundations of Everyday Leadership & Applications of Everyday Leadership
• Illinois Catalog BADM 508: Leadership & Teams
• Offered in Spring Term (Jan-May)

This course is part of the Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization.

Course Description

This course is intended to extend and elaborate your understanding of the challenges of the “people management” side of organizations. This course will explore and develop the specific concepts and skills needed to address the everyday challenge of being a leader in a professional business organization. In this course, you will learn the critical foundations of effective leadership skills.

This is a course about skills and experience, learning to work better with others, and learning how to get others to work better together. We will use case study activities (such as role-playing) to improve your skills at diagnosing, analyzing, and handling the everyday challenges of being a leader.

Instructor

Instructor’s BIO 

Course Goals and Objectives

• Understand why and how leadership skills are so critical to organizational success
• Learn how to use leadership skills to work more effectively with others
• Learn how to use leadership skills to organize others to work more effectively together

Topics of this course

• Module 1: Head and Heart of Everyday Leadership
• Module 2: Individual Decision Making
• Module 3: Group Decision Making
• Module 4: Managing Motivation
• Module 5: Negotiation
• Module 6: Performance Management
• Module 7: Conflict Management
• Module 8: Leading Change

Course Materials

Suggested and Supplemental readings are assigned for each module. Suggested readings in Coursera courses are required for credit seeking students in this course.

• Some Suggested readings are from Harvard Business Review. You can open a few free articles per month, or you can register and gain access to more free articles a month. Registration is free. We suggest that you register so you can access more articles from their website for free. If you are interested in printing or downloading the suggested Harvard readings, you can visit your local library, or Harvard Business Review online.
• You will need to read a case (Au Bon Pain) and use it to complete the Study Group Case Analysis project. GO BUY THE CASE (AU BON PAIN).
• To purchase a package of the Supplemental readings for all 8 modules of both Everyday Leadership courses, visit the LAD online bookstore.
• You can also visit the LAD online bookstore to purchase a 2-page summary of the content of each of the 8 modules of both Everyday Leadership courses (16 pages total, written by the professor).

Live Session Schedule (Tentative) 

January 18th, 2017 – March 14th, 2017

Course Elements

IN COURSERA

• Lecture Videos.
• Readings.
• Case Study Activities.
• Quizzes.
• Peer Assessed Writing Assignment.

IN COMPASS 2G

• Live Case Study Activity.
• Forum Discussion.
• Module Essay.
• Live Sessions. with the instructors occur every week, on Tues 8PM or Weds 9AM.
• Group Case Study Analysis. The capstone activity for this course is an analysis of the case, Manufacturing Learning Laboratory at Digital Equipment Corporation. The analysis will be done as a collaborative effort in study groups.