Leading with Impact: Developing Your Leadership Skills, Becoming a Leader

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Year 1	Laura Guillén Ramo	Dirección de Personas y Organización	ENG

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

The call for leadership is strong. A quick look at the front page of the daily newspaper confirms our collective yearning for leadership across sectors, institutions and borders to resolve the dilemmas of complexities of modern life. The assumption is that good leaders make a difference and that we are better off because of them. This course explores the fundamental question, "Who emerges as leaders and what accounts for effective leadership??

Ask people around: what is leadership? For some, leadership is synonymous with control and efficiency. For others it centers on persuasive abilities. Some equate leadership with heroic figures, while other with a very charismatic person.

Leadership is complex. All that we know confirms that. But if we don't understand at a basic level what leadership is (and is not), how we can prepare ourselves to lead well?

In this course, students of the Master of Science programs will learn the nature and practice of leadership - leading self, leading others, leading organizations and leading a responsible business in society. As future business leaders, it is important to establish a reflective understanding of the behaviors and capabilities to lead a rapidly changing organizational environment. Effective and responsible leadership requires leaders to have awareness of the context in which they lead. This involves the ability to communicate the purpose of their leadership project, knowledge of their strengths and limitations, care for the welfare of their stakeholders, as well as the challenges and dilemmas they may encounter. In addition, leaders need to know how and where to grow - and how they can help others to grow and to become leaders in their own right. Thus, the course brings together knowledge from cognate disciplines (e.g., psychology, management, sociology) to help students develop into fair, authentic, empowering, and responsible leaders.

Course Learning Objectives

- To explore the fundamentals of business leadership
- To deepen the understanding and improvement of self-awareness
- To understand that leadership takes place at the individual, team, and organizational level
- To provide practical skillset to improve their impact on others
- To help students develop and deepen their own leadership skills
- To practice and self-reflect about leadership experiences

CONTENT

1. What is leadership? Introduction to course
2. Understanding and managing self Increasing self-awareness as a leader (strengths and limitations).
3. Understanding and managing others
4. Leadership styles and destructive leadership behaviors
5. Leadership styles and destructive leadership behaviors
6. Establishing power and influence
7. Difficult conversations and conflict resolution
8. Change managemente
9. Final presentations

1. What is leadership?

Introduction to course

2. Understanding and managing self

Increasing self-awareness as a leader (strengths and limitations).

3. Understanding and managing others

4. Leadership styles and destructive leadership behaviors

5. Leadership styles and destructive leadership behaviors

6. Establishing power and influence

7. Difficult conversations and conflict resolution

8. Change managemente

9. Final presentations

Methodology

The pedagogical approach will be based on active learning, self-reflection and team interaction. The appropriate teaching method will be chosen depending on the learning objectives of each class session. During class, students will be listening to mini-lectures, watching and discussing videos, participating in role-plays, and doing in-class exercises.

Description	%
Participation ad class preparation	40
Group assignment	30
Final exam	30

Assessment criteria

Descripción %
Participation and class preparation 40

Group assignment 30

Final exam 30

Participation & Class Preparation (40%)
Participation and class preparation will be assessed in two ways.
- Attendance and In-class participation (20%). Class attendance and participation constitute 20% of your grade. Bear in mind that the better the class discussions, the more we will all learn from them. It is therefore essential that everyone prepares for the class and makes substantive contributions to class discussions using various means available online (e.g., chats, polls, group and plenary contributions).
- Class preparation (20%). To understand course contents, you will be asked to complete various activities prior to the class session. Doing so in a timely manner will give you 20% of your grade.

Individual exam (30%)
Students will be required to take an exam covering the course content that will account for 30% of your grade. More information will be provided in class.

Group assignment (30%)
This group assignment will give you 30% of your grade. The aim is to give the group an opportunity to prepare a presentation that relates the concepts seen in class with organizational reality. The presentation provides the opportunity for you to reflect on the question ?what makes a great leader?'. You should discuss topics covered in the course and critically reflect on how they apply in real organizations.

Bibliography

What makes a leader? 2004. By Daniel Goleman. HBS.

The set-up-to-fail syndrome. 1998. By Manzoni, J. F., & Barsoux, J. L. HBS

Why should anyone be led by you? 2006. By Goffee, R., & Jones, G. R. HBS.

The real reason why people don't change. 2001. By Kegan, R. & Lahey, L. HBS.

Tepper, B. J., Simon, L., & Park, H. M. (2017). Abusive supervision. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 4, 123-152.

Van Kleef, G. A., Homan, A. C., Finkenauer, C., Gündemir, S., & Stamkou, E. (2011). Breaking the rules to rise to power: How norm violators gain power in the eyes of others. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2(5), 500-507.

Knight, R. (2015). How to handle difficult conversations at work. Harvard Business Review. https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/H01TF0-PDF-ENG?Ntt=

Norton, M. I., Villanueva, J., & Wathieu, L. (2009). elBulli: The taste of innovation. Harvard Business School Press.

Type:	OPT	Curs:	1	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	3 ECTS

Leading with Impact: Developing Your Leadership Skills, Becoming a Leader (2225.YR.006031.1)

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