MGT 781 Strategic Leadership and Team Building
Organizations must have clarity in values, strategies, goals, and roles and responsibilities to be successful. In this course, students will practice applying six critical questions to create clarity. By the end of this course, students will arrive at an organization's core purpose and its core values. They will also develop a business definition and identify an organization's strategic anchors. After that, students will define an organization's thematic goal, defining objectives, and standard operating objectives. Finally, students will apply the strategies that they learned in the first course to build a healthy and cohesive team, both by 1) cultivating the five behaviors that healthy teams possess and 2) being cognizant of different working styles and preferences. The focus of this course revolves around six critical areas that define and sustain a healthy organization; the organization’s purpose; the behaviors that guide the organization’s purpose (values); the business definition; how is success measured; a single overarching goal; and ownership of goals. Students will explore strategies and practices that healthy organizations engage to ensure alignment with their values, strategies, and goals, as well as the roles and responsibilities of the leadership team. Students will examine an organization’s performance against the six critical areas, creating a ‘playbook’ that ensures organizational health. Students will also explore best business practices that establishes team cohesion, based individual strengths and various work preferences.
Offered
Online