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Effective Leadership and Management: Understanding and Influencing the Dynamics of Organizations

BUS ADM X498.4

40397
Delivery Options Online

Learn the concepts, application, practice and strategies involved in becoming a highly effective leader. As organizational expectations continue to increase with heavy workloads, fewer staff, increased complexity and reduced resources, you explore how leadership behaviors can increase organization and employee performance. Topics include managing talent, developing teams, resolving conflicts, making decisions, working with the multigenerational workforce, tackling work-family challenges, and addressing diversity and cultural dilemmas. Learn how to move from the tactical to the strategic as a leader, as well as how to address challenges systemically. Learn concrete skills to improve your ability to lead teams and achieve business goals.

Course Outline

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Course Objectives

  • Understand various leadership and management styles and approaches and how they influence organizational structures
  • Realize your own personal leadership style
  • Learn how to adapt your leadership style to the needs of the organization and your staff
  • Create and manage teams and organizational culture
  • Learn how to manage cultural and individual differences among Millennials, Gen-Xers, Boomers and Seniors

What You Learn

  • Distinction between management and leadership and where they overlap
  • Leadership models and styles (Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor, Blanchard, Kouzes, Block, Collins, Transformational, EQ)
  • The 5 Dynamics Assessment
  • Johari Window
  • Characteristics of high-performing teams and how to create one
  • Team development
  • Team projects
  • Diversity and culture
  • Organizational culture, structure and design
  • Decision-making strategies

How You Learn

  • Lectures
  • Discussions
  • Experiential activities
  • Team projects
  • Quizzes
  • Final paper

Is This Course Right for Me?
If you are a current or aspiring manager or supervisor, this course is perfect for you.

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Sections

Section 028

Jun 10, 2021 to Aug 12, 2021 Live Online

Course Fee(s)

Course Fee credit (2 units)

$925.00


Type Live Online

Access classroom-style interactive learning from anywhere in the world! Attend scheduled online sessions with your instructor and classmates in addition to completing your coursework.

Live Online format allows you to take classes from anywhere with an internet connection. Classroom sections will be taught in this format through Spring 2021. Learn more about this format.

Beginning August 15, 2020, you must have a Zoom account to participate.

Many schools are now accepting transfer credit for online coursework, including health and sciences programs. Check with your institution before enrolling.

Days

Th

Time

6:00PM to 9:00PM Pacific Time

Dates

Jun 10, 2021 to Aug 12, 2021

Schedule and Location

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Instructional Hours

30.0

Delivery Options

Online

Available for Credit

2 semester units

Instructors

  • Frances Bellows

Section Notes

Students must enroll before the first class meeting.

 

Section Materials

  • (Mandatory) A Leader's Legacy by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner © 2006 Jossey-Bass 1 edition ISBN 9780787982966
  • (Mandatory) Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee © 2013 Harvard Business Review Press ISBN 9781422168035

This course applies to the following programs:

Certificate Program in Leadership and Management

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Required Courses

  • Effective Leadership and Management: Understanding and Influencing the Dynamics of Organizations
  • Business Negotiating
  • Power and Influence in Organizations
  • Managing Change and Ambiguity in the Workplace
  • Organizational Communication Strategies for Managers

Electives

  • Planning and Managing Your Small Business Venture
  • Business Communication: Writing and Speaking
  • Essentials of Business
  • Essentials of Management
  • Marketing Management
  • Making Power Moves: Women and Leadership
  • Mediation and Conflict Resolution
  • Becoming a Leader: Women in Leadership
  • Organization and Management
  • Organization Development and Change
  • Power and Influence: Women and Leadership
  • Talent Management and Workforce Development
  • Improvisation and Leadership
  • Small Business Management
  • Transformational Leadership
  • Communication Skills for Business Professionals

Learn More About this Program

Notes

Departmental contact: extension-business@berkeley.edu | ?(510) 642-4231
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Frances Bellows

Frances Bellows, B.A., J.D., PMP, is an experienced consultant and the owner of Smooth Sailing Inc. She is an effective teacher who has worked with small business entrepreneurs and as an M.B.A. adjunct professor. Bellows has experience in many industries, both in the US and abroad, and is an effective project manager who believes communications and planning are the anchors for every successful project.

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