Strategic Leadership General Information
Strategic Leadership Course Purpose
To develop innovative strategic thinkers and change agents who can create and lead agile organizations to
attain and maintain a competitive advantage in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous strategic environment.
Strategic Leadership Course Objectives
- Evaluate, analyze, and synthesize strategic leader competencies, to include technical, conceptual, and interpersonal competencies as they relate to transformational leadership and transforming and changing organizations. (LA #2,5)
- Evaluate, develop and apply the tools of strategic leadership for implementing coherent strategies to lead organizational transformation in joint, interagency, multinational, and cross-cultural environments. (LA #5)
- Evaluate the moral, social, and ethical impact of leading in the 21st century information age organization. (LA #5)
- Enhance self-awareness and engage in continuous self-assessment, development, and life-long learning. (LA #5)
Strategic Leadership Course Threads
This course addresses the challenges of strategic leadership. The concept of strategic leadership serves as
the overarching framework for the course and provides intellectual underpinnings in four specific areas:
The strategic environmental context; strategic leader competencies; organizational change; and creating
resilient and effective organizations.
Key threads that dominate the leadership curriculum during the academic year comprise:
- an understanding of environmental complexity (internal and external),
- key strategic leadership competencies and skills,
- creative, critical and systems thinking,
- meeting ethical challenges inherent in operating at the strategic level,
- leading change and transformation,
- promoting competitive advantage,
- enhancing self development, and
- meeting the challenges of information age national security and private sector organizations and industries.
