Business Leadership 2
Course Introduction
Core Standards of the Course
Strand 1
Creating a Positive Culture - Students will understand and implement strategies that create a positive work culture.
Standard 2
Create Culture
Describe the basic steps for creating an organization’s culture.
Standard 3
Have Crucial Conversations
Explore the ways a crucial conversation between two or more people can affect culture. Crucial conversions occur when stakes are high, opinions differ and emotions run strong. These conversations are also difficult because the decisions made have potential for negative consequence and impact.
Performance Skill
Research the culture of an organization by reading and listening to current media and present the findings to the class.
Strand 2
Building effective teams - Students will explore effective team building strategies
Standard 1
Discuss various team titles and responsibilities for effective teams.
Standard 2
Explain the "why" when assigning a task (TASC) and support team members in accomplishing action items.
T- Who owns the task?
A- Do they have the authority to be accountable?
S- Do they agree that they are set up for success?
C- Do they have a checklist of what needs to happen to accomplish the task?
Standard 3
Provide effective feedback as part of a team. Explore the two main types of feedback
Performance Skill
Students will assume the role of team leader for a specific industry or new business. In a case study or scenario. Have students evaluate roles and responsibilities that are needed and go through the TASC questions for each and determine a method for feedback.
Strand 3
Leadership Employability Skills - Students will define and develop essential leadership skills for employment.
Standard 1
Understanding the role of leadership
Standard 2
Communication Skills
Students will explore business communication methods and the appropriate application of those methods.
Standard 3
Making informed decisions
Performance Skill
Students will utilize one of the above feedback strategies for a class, CTSO, or club project. As the leader they can gain feedback from their employees to improve the project in the future. Students will provide a description of the feedback they choose and some of the responses they received.
Strand 4
Consensus Building and Change Management - Students will explore strategies for consensus building and change management in a team or organization
Standard 1
Consensus Building, a process involving a good-faith effort to meet the interests of all stakeholders and seek a unanimous agreement.
Standard 2
Managing Emotions, recognizing that you are always free to choose how you react to situations. Students will understand and practice how to manage negative emotions like: frustration, worry, anger, dislike and disappointment.
Standard 3
Understanding Status Quo which is the way things are and the processes that are currently in place within an organization. Leaders may use Status Quo Analysis which is doing nothing for now as an alternative to enacting a change. Weighing both positive and negative consequences of change will help determine the best course of action.
Standard 4
Evaluating Policies and Procedure, the processes used to determine if an organization’s current practices are in alignment with goals, missions and vision.
Performance Skill (choose one)
Strand 5
Resolving Conflict - Students will understand the types and causes of conflict and how to use different strategies to resolve conflict in the workplace.
Standard 1
Understand the difference between functional and dysfunctional conflict. Functional conflict is healthy, constructive disagreement between groups or individuals, while dysfunctional conflict is unhealthy disagreement that occurs between groups or individuals
Standard 2
Conflict Resolution - Understand causes of conflict and strategies for conflict resolution.
Standard 3
Students will learn to lead with empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
Performance Skill
Students will assume the role as an HR Director and create training materials to instruct employees how to resolve conflict in the workplace.
Strand 6
Creative Problem Solving - Students will understand the importance of creativity in the problem solving process. Creative problem solving (CPS) is a way of solving problems or identifying opportunities when conventional thinking has failed.
Standard 1
Making space for creativity in a work environment.
Standard 2
Define the creative problem solving process
Standard 3
Demonstrate strategies of problem solving. Create a space where everyone has a voice using some classic strategies
Performance Skill
Students will participate in the creative problem solving process and then complete a self reflection of the process through a form of written communication.
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