Course Description
The MBA Connect course in Leadership is designed to help you reflect on your leadership journey and connect theoretical concepts to practical applications in your work. Through engaging readings and professional development activities, you will enhance your leadership skills and insights. This course fosters personal growth and prepares you to lead effectively in diverse organizational settings.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Articulate a personal leadership philosophy grounded in evidence-based leadership thinking, connected to your professional identity and MBA pathway.
- Demonstrate communication and influence by translating professional experience into leadership language for diverse and senior audiences.
- Evaluate multiple sources of evidence about your own collaboration — self-assessment, direct feedback, and your own account of a team experience — to identify strengths, growth edges, and the costs those strengths carry for others.
- Analyze an ethical leadership commitment through the lens of social responsibility, applying frameworks from course readings and professional experience.
- Develop a personalized leadership development plan that synthesizes insights from the course’s reflective activities, chosen reading, and mentorship conversation.
Outcome Proficiency Groups
MBA 500 helps you grow in three of the five MyMBA program outcomes:
Communication & Influence
Translate your professional experience into leadership language for diverse and senior audiences.
Teamwork & Collaboration
Use self-assessment and colleague feedback to see your strengths, and what they cost the people around you.
Ethical Leadership & Social Responsibility
Examine an ethical leadership commitment through the lens of social responsibility.
Where This Course Leads
The development plan and portfolio you build here travel with you into MBA 600: MBA Connect – Innovation, and the skills carry forward to the MBA Capstone, where you bring all five outcome proficiency groups together to tackle a contemporary business challenge.
