Course

Leadership Training and Development

Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Department
Business
Course code
BUSN 4460
Credits
3.00
Semester length
15 Weeks
Max class size
30
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
Seminar
Course designation
None
Industry designation
None
Typically offered
To be determined

Overview

Course description
In this course, students will develop their ability to identify leadership training requirements, plan and conduct training sessions, and improve their training delivery.
Course content

The course seminar and applied activities will focus on the following:

  1. Relevant approaches to leadership trainings
  2. Comparing skills-based training with other knowledge delivery methods (e.g., lectures or readings)
  3. Considerations for different modalities (e.g., online or in-person) and organizational contexts of leadership training
  4. Skills, roles, and functions needed to effectively identify training needs, plan and conduct trainings, and improve trainings
Learning activities

Student presentations, reflections, peer trainings, and/or interactive discussions will form an integral part of the learning experience. Methods of instruction can include roundtable discussions, trainings, peer feedback, lectures, and other seminar formats.

Means of assessment

Asessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. Instructors may use a student’s record of attendance and/or level of active participation in the course as part of the student’s graded performance. Where this occurs, expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation will be clearly defined in the Instructor Course Outline.

Individual Training Plan  15-25%
Professional Development Training(s) and training evaluations  35-40%
Project(s), Structured Discussion(s), and/or Assignment(s)  15-25%
Individual Capstone Project(s)  15-25%
Participation  0-10%
  100%

 

Notes:  

1. At least 50% of the total coursework must be individual work.
2. To pass the course, students must achieve a cumulative grade of 50% in all non-group assessments as well as 50% overall in the course. In other words, students must have achieved at least 50% on their cumulative individual assessments in order to be eligible to earn marks from group work.
3. Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.

Learning outcomes

After completing this course, a successful student will be able to:

  1. Identify and evaluate approaches to leadership training.
  2. Distinguish the skills, roles, and functions needed within leadership training.
  3. Differentiate and appraise, on a personal level, the practical skills that effective leadership requires.
  4. Design a professional development training for leadership practice(s) and/or behaviour(s) that are relevant in the current workforce, including the utilization of effective feedback techniques.
  5. Formulate effective feedback and feedback mechanism(s) to enhance peers' and/or trainees' performance.
Textbook materials

Custom leadership and/or training readings, cases, and selected readings

Or other textbook as approved by the Business Management Department.

Requisites

Prerequisites

1) A minimum of 60 credits

and

2) A minimum of a C+ in ENGL 1130, CMNS 1115, MARK 2150, or an English, Communications or Creative Writing course that transfers (as English credit) to one of the B.C. research universities (SFU, UBC, UBC-O, UVic or UNBC)

OR

Currently active in the PBD Health Information Management

Corequisites

None

Equivalencies

None

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer details for BUSN 4460
Athabasca University (AU) AU ORGB 327 (3)
Capilano University (CAPU) CAPU BADM 305 (3)
Coast Mountain College (CMTN) CMTN BADM 2XX (3)
College of New Caledonia (CNC) CNC LEAD 2XX (3)
College of the Rockies (COTR) COTR MGMT 3XX (3)
Coquitlam College (COQU) No credit
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) KPU SOBU 2XXX (3)
Langara College (LANG) LANG BUSM 2XXX (3)
Northern Lights College (NLC) NLC MGMT 2XX (3)
Simon Fraser University (SFU) No credit
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) TRU BBUS 3XXX (3)
University Canada West (UCW) UCW BUSI 3XX (3)
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) UBCO MGMT_O 2nd (3)
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) UBCV COMM_V 2nd (3)
University of Victoria (UVIC) UVIC COM 2XX (1.5)
Vancouver Community College (VCC) VCC HOSP 4460 (3)

Course Offerings

Summer 2025