ENTR-226 Entrepreneurial Leadership

This interdisciplinary course is designed to support student learning about entrepreneurial leadership in the context of individuals, teams, and organizations. Focus will be on acquiring the entrepreneurial leadership skills for managing continuous change, innovation, and adaptation, as well as the skills of creating and managing organizations where people thrive and perform at their best. This course examines the personal characteristics of effective leaders and the fundamentals of ethical leadership. Students will develop and practice leadership skills to prepare themselves to act effectively and with integrity under pressure, to prepare to perform values-driven decision-making, and to voice and effectively enact their own values and principles. The primary goal of this course is to facilitate student development as an entrepreneurial leader through self-reflection and applying entrepreneurial leadership practices in a wide range of situations.

Credits

2

Hours Weekly

2 hours weekly

1. 1. Develop and apply the skills to analyze an entrepreneurial leadership situation, and
   understand and summarize the relevant issues and/or problems comprehensively.
2. 2. Develop and apply the skills to identify, question, and evaluate the relevance and quality of
   supporting data/evidence.
3. 3. Develop and apply the skills to identify stakeholders, consider their perspectives, evaluate
   the relevance of contexts, and validate assumptions, in order to establish a position on an
   issue or problem.
4. 4. Understand and develop the skills necessary to lead entrepreneurial ventures successfully,
   including continuous change, innovation, and adaptation.
5. 5. Develop the understanding and ability as a leader to find and create contexts where you
   perform at your best, and to design and enable contexts where others can thrive.
6. 6. Develop and apply the leadership skills and ethical practices to effectively act with integrity
   under pressure.
7. 7. Develop and apply the leadership skills to perform values-driven decision-making, to apply
   implications and/or conclusions to an analysis of an argument, to reach a decision, or to
   solve a problem, and to defend that decision.

1. 1. Develop and apply the skills to analyze an entrepreneurial leadership situation, and
   understand and summarize the relevant issues and/or problems comprehensively.
2. 2. Develop and apply the skills to identify, question, and evaluate the relevance and quality of
   supporting data/evidence.
3. 3. Develop and apply the skills to identify stakeholders, consider their perspectives, evaluate
   the relevance of contexts, and validate assumptions, in order to establish a position on an
   issue or problem.
4. 4. Understand and develop the skills necessary to lead entrepreneurial ventures successfully,
   including continuous change, innovation, and adaptation.
5. 5. Develop the understanding and ability as a leader to find and create contexts where you
   perform at your best, and to design and enable contexts where others can thrive.
6. 6. Develop and apply the leadership skills and ethical practices to effectively act with integrity
   under pressure.
7. 7. Develop and apply the leadership skills to perform values-driven decision-making, to apply
   implications and/or conclusions to an analysis of an argument, to reach a decision, or to
   solve a problem, and to defend that decision.