Checking date: 12/05/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Leadership
(18925)
Master In Business Administration - MBA (Plan: 466 - Estudio: 301)
EPE


Coordinating teacher: MELERO MARTIN, EDUARDO

Department assigned to the subject: Business Administration Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 2.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
No requirement
Objectives
This course is focused on examining leadership theory emphasizing on the development of leadership and interpersonal skills through self-assessment cases and exercises. It will cover the impact of emotional and social intelligence applied to leadership on the team development and performance. With this course, participants will improve as a leader in different aspects: - leading personal and professional life: setting targets, vision, goals - organize teams and people: team building, change management, conflict solving and motivation. - improve communication skills: Influence, effective feedback, conflict resolution, creative thinking, evaluation, and interpersonal skills.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
The programme is divided into 2 modules: I) Inside-out, composed by 7 classes that focus on the development of an authentic leadership. After the 7 classes, an individual evaluation is run, based on an individual storytelling self reflection (powered by purpose and vision). II) Outside-in, in 2 classes the knowledge from the previous classes will be applied into a practical group project, giving life for each one's authentic leadership and vision to flourish in benefit of others. It ends with a group evaluation, based on applying a shared vision into a project. I) Inside-out Class 1: Reactive Mindsets Applied behavioral economics to uncover the hidden forces on decision making processes, and the different Coping Mechanisms we develop in life. A research-based approach to show how our mental model process impacts the leadership decision process at the corporate level. Class 2: Proactive Mindset. Workshop dynamics to apply the skills of innovative leadership. Methods, frameworks and tools to mitigate pitfalls in team Decision-Making. How can we stimulate shifts in our own mindset to lead for better futures? Edward de Bono Role Plays to create constructive divergence and give feedback. Class 3: The Reactive and Proactive mindsets. Contextual teamwork game to recognize biases on our daily basis. A board game built to facilitate the learning process and when to apply the most suitable tools to mitigate them. Class 4: Authentic Leadership. Conformity pressures that impact the role of leadership. Frameworks and dynamics to discover your authentic leadership. Online assessment to identify each one's proactive mindset for self-reflection. Class 5: Empathy: the follower's perspective. Power versus Authority. Assessment to discuss the dysfunctions of a team, and to work on building a safe space, and a culture of trust. Dynamic of Leading & Following to identify each one 's leadership style. Class 6: Empathy: Active Listening. Dynamics to absorb the 4 levels of listening. How to apply active listening to develop a leadership that prioritizes a meaningful employee experience. The origins of Flow and the practice of storytelling skills as a leader. Class 7: Vision: Strategic and Creative Thinking. Leadership skills to face uncertainty. How to accept mistakes, and create a culture that nurtures creativity and innovation? The practice of long term thinking. Reframing your narrative and limiting beliefs. Envisioning skills to materialize a leadership purpose statement, a what-if vision, and a story that justifies it. II) Outside-in Classes 8 & 9: Context and Needs to create the project in groups. Applying leadership skills in a real project. A guest is invited to serve as a real-life context for the group to identify needs and challenges to be solved in a project. Training the skill to translate the challenge to a given problem. The individual leadership visions from the first module (Inside-out) are now aligned to cope in group and translated into a shared vision. Class 10: The final project: co-creation and prototyping. Workshop of ideation to guide the creation of the project of the group. From the vision into a road map to sell your project.
Learning activities and methodology
Classroom teaching methods will include lectures, movies, class discussion, videos, oral presentations, written assignments, group projects...
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 0
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100




Basic Bibliography
  • Daniel Kahneman. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin Group. 2002
  • Edward de Bono. lateral Thinking: Be more creative and Productive. Penguin Group. 1990
  • Frederic Laloux. Reinventing Organizations. Nelson Parker. 2014.
  • Richard Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein. Nudge:Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. Yale University Press. 2008
  • Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. Immunity to change. Harvard Business Publishing. 2009

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.