EDUC 802 – Leadership Seminar
Course Description:
Provides intensive study of leadership, emphasizing concepts of leadership, decision and change processes, and the assessment and development of leadership skills. This course is required during the third semester of study in the program.
Reflections:
This course was beneficial for me on the academic, professional, and personal level. It helped me situate and understand myself as a leader in my profession and my everyday life by reflecting on my current strategies and how they can be improved to encompass a more open and dynamic approach to lead. The readings about different leadership approaches helped me uncover and understand different communicative interactions with colleagues and peers in addition to reflecting on my own ways of communicating with surrounding people. As a future scholar, I learned to be flexible in a chaotic world where things might not always work as planned, and that through chaos, originality and newness emerge. Creating “Learning Organizations” was one of the major strategies that I thought would be very useful to me now and in the future in terms of learning from others and sharing my learning to contribute to a larger body of knowledge; hierarchy is eliminated in a learning organization where information is dynamic whoever the source is. The concept analysis format of the assignments which focused around the themes of leading by coercion, leading by power vs leading by knowledge, and leading to make organizations learn were all useful in supporting my reflections on my own leading style.