MHRM 544B Course Overview
Ms. Leta Beam phone: (717) 238-3939
Email: leta@vantage-inter.com
Feel free to contact the instructor with any questions.
MHRM 544B LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TALENT PLANNING: Developing An Enriched Organizational Culture
Course Description
One of our top leadership priorities is to find, cultivate and keep great talent within our organizations. This course challenges learners to approach this leadership imperative from a strategic, holistic vantage point. The context for the course includes:
A “legacy” organizational mindset
An integrated leadership model for the new economy
A belief that people are an organization’s greatest asset and everyone within the organization is responsible for attracting and holding onto stars.
A standing dare for organizational leaders, current and future, to act as champions of change
At the core of the legacy mindset is a talent plan, a comprehensive roadmap for attracting great people, growing them and allowing them to create their own unique legacy within an organization.
Learning Opportunities
This provocative, leading edge business course offers the following learning opportunities:
Understand the changing leadership aptitudes for the new economy and their implications for how we will conduct business in the future.
Identify the benefit of creating leaders at all levels within organizations through case study analysis.
Learn and apply the major elements of Talent Planning including:
Manage things….coach people
Identify, reward and empower organizational ambassadors
Refine recruitment, hiring and promotion
Adopt a balanced, whole person approach to working relationships
Establish an extraordinary quality of work life
Learn basic coaching skills and the pivotal role that they play as the language of cultural change.
Book(s) Required:
TBA
Course Expectations and Evaluative Techniques
Students will be expected to co-create a rich learning environment with one another and the instructor. In order to achieve that, each learner will be expected to come prepared to fully engage in each class. Attendance is mandatory.
Students’ understanding of the material and the concepts and their ability to apply them to real business experiences will be evaluated through:
Level of participation in class discussion
Role plays and case studies of new business coaching skill set
Evidence of application of skills in everyday situations
Semester paper, completed in pairs, in which learners actually create or re-create a “legacy” corporate culture based on a talent planning approach.
Grading System
90 -100 A
80 – 89 B
70 – 79 C
60 – 69 D
50 F