CCOG for MSD 174B Fall 2024
- Course Number:
- MSD 174B
- Course Title:
- Leadership & Effective Decision Making
- Credit Hours:
- 1
- Lecture Hours:
- 10
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
As a result of this course, participants will be able to:
Describe the leaders role in group decision making
Apply a four-step process to the overall decision making process
Choose between several decision making processes for specific situations
Plan for facilitating group interactions during decision making
Evaluate group decisions for effectiveness
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Design a plan for taking a group through key decision making steps
Develop strategies for best decision making approaches for specific case
study situations
Demonstrate facilitation skills during a team decision making process
Assess specific group and individual counter-productive behavior and
describe appropriate leadership options for their management
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
COMPETENCIES/SKILLS:
Ability to recognize the strategic issues in planning for decision
making
Understanding the impact of personal leadership styles on the process
Facilitating lively and useful discussions that contribute to effective
decisions
Analyzing group needs and managing the positive participation of
individuals
Choosing appropriate interventions when decision making processes are
not
working
Using basic decision making techniques such as brainstorming, charting,
the
nominal group technique, multi voting, and affinity diagrams.
Ensuring that important roles are filled in group decision making
Evaluating and help others evaluate potential decision choices
CONCEPTS, THEMES & ISSUES:
General Concepts
Understanding how personal leadership style will impact the overall
decision
making process
Deciding between the appropriateness of solo decisions and group
decisions
Balancing the rational and the emotional in reaching decisions
Understanding the difference between whether, which, and contingency
decisions
Using appropriate levels of leadership intervention in group processes
Themes
The value of group involvement in decision making
The need for strategic leadership to ensure an effective process
The dynamic role of the leader as both facilitator and participant in
the
process
Issues
The differences in leading for-pay and volunteer groups
Leading decision making when widely diverse interests are represented
Deciding who to include (and exclude) in the decision making process
The final decision author: Leader vs. consensus vs. majority rule