LD 822: Maximizing Your Organization's Potential, 3 Credits
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Course Description
This course will focus on the choices that are important for cultivating and sustaining an effective and efficient organization. A company’s profitability and success, the engagement of the employees, and consumer satisfaction are all impacted by the leadership’s actions. Therefore, in order to ensure long term growth it is necessary for a company to create a healthy organizational identity. This is predicated on the pipeline of leadership talent within the organization. Succession planning requires a proactive approach. This class will focus on the best practices for developing and coaching leaders as well as the creation of organizational systems that will ensure the company has strong leadership talent for future success.
Prerequisites None
Learning Outcomes
Upon course completion, students will:
1. Identify some behavioral problems of managing in increasing complex, diverse and global high performance and underperforming organizations
2. Explain the determinants of effective high performance behavior in terms of productivity, satisfaction and growth
3. Develop our abilities to predict consequences of recommended actions and solutions intended to influence behavior in the appropriate direction
4. Develop an understanding and personal skills in handling difficult personal, interpersonal and team based situations
5. Develop your leadership through a competency-based learning plan.
6. Strengthen your team by using development best practices to facilitate learning.
7. Build trusting partnerships that ensure coaching conversations are productive.
8. Define an effective talent development process.
9. Assess leadership/talent management in your organization.
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Course Resources
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Course Policies
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Description of Course Activities and Requirements
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Please be informed that, as a part of our higher education accreditation processes,
Granite State College provides samples of GSC student work. Therefore, we will be collecting samples of student work throughout the term. Additionally, student work may be used as exemplars within the Granite State College course materials.
Grading Percentages
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NOTE: “ATTENDANCE” SHOULD NOT BE LISTED AS A CATEGORY FOR GRADING PERCENTAGES.
PLEASE USE A TERM SUCH AS “IN-CLASS PARTICIPATION” OR “IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES/ENGAGEMENT”
TO EMPHASIZE THAT YOUR EVALUATION WILL BE BASED ON QUALITY OF PRESENCE (RATHER THAN
JUST BEING PRESENT).
Granite State College Standard Grading Scale
Grade
A
Percent
95-100
Grade Points
4.0
Level of
Achievement
Outstanding
A -
B +
B
90-94
87-89
84-86
3.67
3.33
3.0 Satisfactory
B 80-83 2.67
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C -
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70-73
2.33
2.0
1.67
Below Average
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F ≤69 0 Failure, no credit
To be in good academic standing, a student must maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0, the minimum GPA required for graduation.
Course Schedule & Topics
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State College’s expectation that all members of our college community treat faculty, staff, and fellow learners with respect. Learners need to be knowledgeable of and comply with college policies. Each individual is accountable for his/her actions and for the consequences of any behavior that is inconsistent with these values and expectations.
Weather Cancellation Policy
Decisions to close or delay opening of an Academic Center will be made NO LATER THAN
6:30 AM. Decisions to cancel evening classes will be made NO LATER THAN 3:00 PM. Closings will be announced on WMUR TV as well as its website www.wmur.com/closings (a link is also provided on the homepage of the GSC Website: www.granite.edu
and New Hampshire Public
Radio's website: http://www.nhpr.org
). If a class is cancelled, you should contact your instructor for any make-up instructions.
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Confidentiality of any data that identify participants is maintained.
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