Leadership Training and Development
Curriculum guideline
Lecture: 1 hour/week
and
Seminar: 3 hours/week
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.
The course seminar and applied activities will focus on the following:
- Relevant approaches to leadership trainings
- Comparing skills-based training with other knowledge delivery methods (e.g., lectures or readings)
- Considerations for different modalities (e.g., online or in-person) and organizational contexts of leadership training
- Skills, roles, and functions needed to effectively identify training needs, plan and conduct trainings, and improve trainings
After completing this course, a successful student will be able to:
- Identify and evaluate approaches to leadership training.
- Distinguish the skills, roles, and functions needed within leadership training.
- Differentiate and appraise, on a personal level, the practical skills that effective leadership requires.
- 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.
- Formulate effective feedback and feedback mechanism(s) to enhance peers' and/or trainees' performance.
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.
Custom leadership and/or training readings, cases, and selected readings
Or other textbook as approved by the Business Management Department.
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
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