Leadership in Under-Resourced Communities

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Course Description

This free, self-paced professional development course covers traditional Christian leadership development theory as well as providing a survey of theories on leadership. The first part of the course focuses on life reflection within a Christian context in order to develop a philosophy of ministry.  The last part of this course focuses on how to lead effectively in organizations serving in diverse and under-resourced communities and to develop strategies to improve the representation of women and people of color in leadership.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  1. Reflect on your leadership journey according to traditional Christian leadership development theory.
  2. Create a philosophy of ministry and leadership integrating personal experience with key concepts from this course.
  3. Construct a leadership toolkit for new supervisors in an organization by applying leadership theories.
  4. Develop a plan for expanding your own cross-cultural leadership ability.
  5. Use systems thinking to develop a plan that includes personal, physical, cultural and organizational aspects of their own leadership development.
  6. Design a plan for an organization to increase the representation of women and people of color in leadership.

Self-Paced or Group Facilitated

This course is designed so that students can go through it individually on their own, or go through it as a group facilitated by any group leader. The Guide for Group Leaders & Live Discussions provides suggestions for discussion topics for those going through as a group. The group leader may also choose to assign some of the items in the Student Assignment Workbook as "homework" to do between meetings.

Students that wish to advance their learning may find it helpful to go through the assignments in the above workbook.

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