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Strategic Leadership Development  (3 Credit Hours)

Course Purpose

This course focuses on a plan of action (Strategy) designed to develop leadership abilities in leaders in both a personal and public context. The overall aim will be to achieve a major shift in ordinary leadership definitions and propel the leader into a program of action, plan and policy and a strategic blueprint that will help develop his/her leader-Shift abilities regardless of proposed leadership plans mandated by institutions, organisations, or social systems they may find themselves.

Strategic skill development of the individual leader includes Personal call/vocation, values, character, temperament, family resource management, emotional intelligence, wholistic living, priorities and decision-making skills that will be explored and developed from within a thoroughly biblical worldview. Various leadership development strategies and theories will provide a framework for principles and processes you can use to develop as a mature and effective leader able and willing to invest in others and leave a positive legacy.

 

An analysis of the qualities and practices of effective Christian leadership based on strategies and principles in Scripture and related literature, with attention to devising a strategy, philosophy, and plan of action in the development of spiritual leadership.

 

Course Outcomes:

By the end of the course, the student will:

1.      Have identified Strategic principles of Leadership, his/her calling and giftedness, including spiritual gifts, temperament, natural abilities and acquired skills and experience relevant to leadership;

2.      Have outlined a personal leadership development timeline, demonstrating understanding of phases and processes as presented by various scholarly leadership development theories.

3.      Have developed personal disciplines and a plan to promote on-going character maturing and skill development.