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G LCO Leadership, Communication and Organisation ( forår 2011 - 5 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

• Uddannelsessprog: engelsk
• Niveau: Bachelor
• Semester/kvarter: Elective course for all semesters
• Timer per uge: 3 lessons
• Deltagerbegrænsning: None
• Undervisningssted: Herning
• Hovedområde: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
• Udbud ID: 26177

Formål

Background:

Good communication skills are extremely important if you want to be a success as a leader in an organization and as an employee as well. This course intend to give the students an overview over the importance of the interactive communication which takes place inside organizations in addition with the images in the outside world made by the organization's external communication.

Good communication skills can strengthen the personal competences to interact into a constructive collaboration together with collegues and to maintain positions of management and leadership.

Good communication skills create a better athmosphere for organizational learning and support efforts of change inside the organization.

Purpose:

The purpose of the course is to give the student a theoretical and practical understanding of the communication which takes place inside organizations and creates organizations as well. During the course the students will be aware of the significance of the importance and meaning with the communication which takes place and they are given tools to heigthen their ability to act in better communicative ways in their daily life.

The aim is to strengthen the student's personal impact to communicate and to be a better master the their lives.

Indhold

The course will be organized together with the students who will be given the opportunity to choose among the following subjects:

• A wide range of theoretical views on communication and leadership (assertion, transactional analysis, NLP).
• The importance of non verbal expressions, gestures, undertones and emotions.
• The way how to manage difficult conversations we are not prepared of.

* How to avoid games.

• How to manage conflicts.
• Power, the use of power, abuse of power, types of power, democracy and Machiavelli.
• How to avoid manipulation and other tricks.
• The difficult conversation as an opportunity for two winners.
• Storytelling and leadership.
• Communication and value based leadership.

* Communication and organizational learning.

* Communication and change.

* The change agent and consultant in the organization

The lessons will be a mix of teaching, student work and training in groups. It is important to underline that the course is fundamentally based on active participation from the class.

Faglige forudsætninger

None

Underviser

-

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

Lessons and group work

English

Litteratur

* Gitte Haslebo og Kit Sanne Nielsen: "Systems and Meaning. Consulting in Organizations." Plymbridge 2000.

* Compendium (for sale in Birk Student Bookshop).

Bedømmelse

25 minute individual examination after 30 minutes' preparation.

Internal examiner and internal censorship.

Character after the 7-point scale.