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IEMS 344: Whole-Brain Leadership


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Prerequisites

Work experience recommended, Junior or Senior Standing

Description

Description

This course examines whole-brain thinking and leading.  Students will draw upon previous work and leadership experience to identify their own thinking and leading preferences and those of team members.  Students will examine contrasting thinking and leading styles in an effort to appreciate and combine these to produce optimal outcomes.

A number of leadership theories and ways of leading will be examined including creative and agile leadership.  Analytical thinkers/leaders will be challenged to spend more time with innovation and creativity, while creative thinkers/leaders will be presented with opportunities to engage in analytical problem-solving. 

This course is a MS elective for Industrial Engineering.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Examine and understand thinking and leading preferences for self and team
  • Understand how to lead contrasting thinking and leading preferences
  • Appreciate the development of creative leadership, take risks, take action, challenge the process, and push to new opportunities
  • Apply the components of agile leadership- self-awareness, mental agility, people agility, change agility and results agility.
  • Appreciate the need for leading throughout the organization
  • Develop as people leaders, enabling others to act, inspiring a shared vision, and strengthening others while creating a spirit of community.

TOPICS

  • Whole-brain thinking/leading
  • Creativity, problem solving, idea generation
  • Agile leadership
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Entrepreneurial thinking/leading
  • Values Based Leadership
  • Leading through coaching

MATERIALS

Required: Tom Rath, Strengths Based Leadership, (ISBN-13: 978-1-59562-025-5), Gallup; Book with Assessment (~$25).

Students will purchase a thinking/leading assessment tool that will provide information for the course and well beyond, the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® (HBDI).  The cost per student will be $50.