MBA 514 Leadership, Influence, and Currency of Trust

This class guides students through designing their personalized leadership paradigm, focusing on practical skills and valuable attributes that will maximize leadership success. The framework for this class takes a design process approach to leadership in a mindfully engaging manner, which consists of five major design dimensions and challenges. These include (1) design self, (2) design relationships, (3) design others’ success and collective innovation, (4) design culture, and (5) design the future. The design process approach follows the philosophy that each key dimension of the leadership paradigm can be purposefully planned and developed. In the major taxonomy of designing relationships, significant emphasis is placed on analyzing a leader’s influence in parallel with the concept of currency of trust.

Credits

3

Outcomes

1. This course will prepare students to:
2. 1. Applies leadership concepts, models, & frameworks to real-world scenarios.
3. 2. Analyze proper applications for leadership influence and currency of trust to enhance leader-member relationships.
4. 3. Devise a change strategy for implementation.
5. 4. Design generative contexts to cultivate and improve organizational members’ innovation capabilities.
6. 5. Design a personalized leadership model.