LDSP

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This course provides a thorough review of the history of leadership theory and application, and culminates with an emphasis on transformational and visionary leadership. Ethical leadership also is covered in depth. Prerequisite: CLC 350 or CLCX 350 is recommended but not required.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This course moves progressively through individual, group, and organizational levels of behavior drawing on concepts and practices from the field of Organizational Behavior (OB). It also examines the interrelationship of behavioral phenomena among these levels. Studying OB provides a basic understanding of one’s own and others’ behavior, particularly in teams. It enhances students’ ability to communicate and work effectively with others. This course will help students strengthen their people management skills so they can be successful leaders in any field they choose. Prerequisite: LDSP 361 or LDSX 361 recommended but not required.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

Students draw on their experiences in previous organizational leadership courses, employing key concepts, theories and skills learned throughout the program toward the strategic analysis of organizations. Using Bolman and Deal's organizational frames concept, students synthesize key learnings across their education and explore an organization through four unique perspectives.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This course presents leadership formation and development from a lifespan developmental perspective. Students will examine how family, school, work settings, and other environmental factors have helped and/or will help develop their transformational leadership potential and leadership effectiveness. Students will develop as authentic leaders by completing various free self-assessments designed to raise awareness of their strengths and opportunities for growth as leaders.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This course serves as a capstone course in the Organizational Leadership program. Students complete the SCPS Portfolio they have been assembling throughout their program. The portfolio provides students with an opportunity to look at the past, present, and future. Students reflect on personal growth and development during their program of study. Students also demonstrate ability to integrate knowledge and skills acquired throughout the programs by completing an integrative paper that addresses leadership, ethics, organizational analysis, self-leadership, diversity, reflections, and an action plan. The portfolio concludes with a professional development plan wherein students identify goals for continued professional growth and lifelong learning.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

Teamwork and collaboration are skills necessary to lead in a high performance global workplace. This course will focus on team dynamics, roles and behaviors, communication, integrity and conflict resolution within teams. Students will learn how to build effective team members that provide team-based solutions and to use conflict to spark new ideas and creative thinking.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

Change Management is the discipline that guides how we prepare, equip and support individuals to adopt change in order to drive organizational success and outcomes. Innovation involves large-scale and highly complex organizational change through creative leadership. This course teaches students how to work across boundaries, and to plan and execute change.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

Leaders are in the midst of a VUCA world – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. This course will focus on leadership strategies necessary to manage these challenges. Students will learn the integrated application of strategy and leadership, establishing as the capacity to anticipate, challenge, interpret, decide, align and learn in order to lead a successful and effective organization.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This course is key to organizational knowledge and focuses on the leader’s ability to understand and know how to use human resources measures to make informed decisions that influence a leaders’ strategy and positively affect the organizations’ performance. Employee development is a set of integrated organizational processes designed to attract, develop, motivate, and retain productive, engaged employees.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This course gives students the ability to learn and understand the organization’s structure through decision-makers, power relationships, influencers, and networks. Leaders need to understand the forces at work in an organization as well as the guiding values and unspoken rules that operate among people. Organizational analysis will help guide strategy to accomplish goals in any organization or network, no matter the setting.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This course teaches students how to understand an organization or department’s performance through various metrics. Students will learn how to read and analyze the following metrics to improve performance: financial, customer, process, people, performance measurement, marketing, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This course develops students’ global mindset by understanding the global environment in which international organizations operate in addition to the role and behavior of international organizations as they respond to the environment. The organizational leader will have knowledge of local markets’ culture and customs, develop multinational strategies, collaborate and influence, and manage globally diverse teams.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This consulting foundations course builds the knowledge necessary for success in the role of consultant. The student will learn various techniques in the areas of strategy formulation, market research, operations, performance management and project management. Skills will be gained in contracting, collecting, analyzing, and presenting data.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

Students will understand and discover the importance of conflict analysis as central to the context and content of any conflict. Conflict analysis tools will be applied to various case studies. This course examines bot theoretical and practical implications of diverse assumptions and strategies. Students develop a deeper self-awareness of their role in the creation, perpetuation, escalation and resolution of conflicts through negotiation.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

This course offers students an opportunity to increase their impact and effectiveness as a leader. Students will use their culmination of knowledge learned throughout the program and base their paper on one of the following: research, applied or externally-oriented projects. Details for the capstone are provided in the Capstone Handbook.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu

You do not have to look hard to find leadership advice, but how much of this is based on data and facts? This course will dive into the world of leadership from the popular culture perspective as well as the psychological and scientific perspective to get to the heart of leadership studies. Utilizing popular podcasts and news articles, coupled with recent studies and available data, we will spend each week studying key aspects of leadership that are misunderstood or misrepresented in the media.

Subject

LDSP

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.jefferson.edu