Foundations of Everyday Leadership

Course Orientation
-You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.

Module 1: Head and Heart of Everyday Leadership
-This module will examine what critical levers an everyday leader has available (the management of information and the management of motivation) to accomplish a leader’s core tasks (making and implementing decisions), and why inclusiveness may be the most important skill in a leader’s toolbox.  


Module 2: Individual Decision Making
-This module will focus on the management of information (head) side of everyday leadership. We will examine decision analysis as a systematic approach to using information to make decisions, as well as the weaknesses and limitations of decision analysis.


Module 3: Group Decision Making
-This module will focus on group decision making as a vehicle for helping an everyday leader address some of the limitations of individual decision making. We will also consider the three key determinants of process loss in group decision making that need to be overcome for group decision making to be effective.


Module 4: Managing Motivation
-This module will focus on the managing motivation (heart) side of everyday leadership.  We will examine how leaders can best manage motivation, and the importance for individual motivation of a leader's management of interdependence among group members.