Strategic Leadership, Group B

Strategic leadership is the practice of adding value to an organization by influencing, inspiring, and coordinating activities to enhance long-term prospects while meeting short-term requirements. Rather than being an individual activity, leadership is co-construed within social groups at various levels of the organization. Set against the backdrop of leadership theory, students learn about their own leadership style, further developing it as they work through a number of common leadership challenges.

Learning topics include:

·         Session 1: Strategy & Strategic decision-making

·         Session 2: Leadership Theories & Leadership in context

·         Session 3: Leading people and teams

·         Session 4: Leadership development

·         Session 5a: Leading through crisis

·         Session 5b: Followership

·         Session 6: Leading Organizational Change (Simulation)

Classroom etiquette

Don’t multitask! Classroom experiments showed that performance on tests drops by 11% when multi-tasking. Further, these experiments showed that test performance drops by 17% when being near to someone who is multi-tasking!

 If you have a question, ask! All slides were prepared according to rigorous textbooks and recent research, but there is no universal truth since leadership involves people. This course aims to enable you to become a responsible leader in the future and provide you with relevant knowledge and tools to accomplish that.

 Attending the first two sessions is not mandatory – you can also read the textbook chapters and articles provided in the Moodle course instead. When you participate, be on time. When preparing only with the written material, you will miss out on the practical exercises and the discussions. All exam questions for sessions 1 and 2 can be answered with the material provided on the slides. But the advice provided during the first two sessions is crucial to achieving the best results in the business simulation in session 3.

Session Guide

Sessions 1 through 5 are separate sessions for each stream (A, B, C).

Session 6 will be a simulation where students of all streams will work in mixed groups.

The principal aims of the course are:

•       To provide students with a broad and critical understanding of the key issues and concepts in leadership.

•       To stimulate both appreciation and consideration of current leadership theory and research.

•       To allow students to reflect on their experience, extrapolate, and develop better leadership skills.

•       To prepare students for future roles in which they must work with individuals and groups in organizations.

Final Exam (max 60): 60 Single-choice questions, 1 point per question, 60 minutes

Business Simulation (max 20): 10 points for the first “Follower”, 1 point for each additional “Follower” (max 10)

Preparation of Strategy (max 10)

Individual Reflection (max 10): providing feedback on group work (5 points), evaluating outcomes and own contribution (5 points)