Leadership Syllabus

Course Description:

This course is designed to identify leadership skills that should be utilized at the managerial level.

Delivery Method: Classroom lecture, PowerPoint presentation, and classroom activity

Course Objective: To build strong leadership skills at the Management level utilizing self-development.

Reasoning:

A. This course is relevant, as it supports the necessary skills needed for quality leadership in the workplace. This course is important because it reinforces the skills that are necessary to lead and communicate at the management level.

B. The impact that this course will have on the manager level is the management team will be able to identify the leadership skills that they are lacking in, primarily on their own, and

• Ask what skills does a strong leader exhibit.

2. Ice Breaker Activity (10 minutes)

• Have students introduce themselves, and give their name, department, and position.

• State the course Objective.

3. Presentation (10 minutes)

• I will start by identifying the difference between leadership skills and leadership traits, and explaining the difference between skills and traits, as they will be doing a group project, and this will help with the project.

• The students will be called on for examples.

• Start Leadership skills slideshow presentation.

4. Group Project (20 minutes)

• Have class break up in to groups.

• Hand out 1 blank piece of paper to fill out for each group.

• Ask the groups to pick a team leader.

• Have the groups talk among themselves for 5 minutes and have them write down as many leadership skills as they can think of.

• Give each team leader a different colored Dry-erase marker and have them approach the white board, and write in a column, all of the leadership skills they came up with.

5. Slideshow Continuation (10 minutes)

• Continue slideshow of leadership skills that are essential at the Management level. Get to the slide of the list of leadership skills, and compare it to what is on the lists of skills written on the white

Individual Writing Project (20 minutes)

• Ask each student to perform a written leadership analysis of a well-known leader in society or someone in their everyday lives. In their papers, students should name specific leadership skills of the individuals they have chosen and provide examples of how those skills were demonstrated. Students should draw conclusions about the effectiveness of these leaders and identify what other people can learn from their examples.

• Explain to the students that the writing project should be no more than 1 page long.

• Have students summarize who they chose and why verbally to the class.

7. Self-Assessment (10 minutes)

• Hand out the skill assessment worksheets to all students.

• Have the students assess each skill according to how well they apply it on a daily basis at work.

• Have the students identify the skills that they feel they need to improve on.

8. Progress Self-Monitoring (20 minutes)

• Hand out the “Leadership Self Development Worksheet”. Have the students write ideas on how they can work on their skills to improve those specific skill sets that they are lacking in.

• Go over each of the skills listed on the