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Strategic leadership goes far beyond strategic planning. It involves strategic thinking, foresight, team building, cultural understanding and personnel management. It also requires a leader who has acquired the knowledge and confidence to advocate transformational change—and then make it happen. The Doctor of Strategic Leadership (DSL) is an applied, multidisciplinary terminal degree designed to provide instant solutions for today's organizational challenges. With three majors from which to choose, professionals are enabled to effectively renew and transform organizations across the globe.
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- Contribute to academic and practical knowledge development about how organizations operate and grow by conducting and reporting organizational and leadership research, as well as best practices in organizational leadership
- Explain and predict organizational and leadership phenomena by selecting and applying the correct organizational and leadership theory(ies) in order to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness
- Conduct and report consulting assistance to a client that improves client’s organization performance.
- Write and publish in popular press publications on organizational and leadership development topics
- Conduct and present exegetical and expository study of scripture to show the Biblical roots of organizational leadership concepts.
- Present at national and international conferences on theoretical and practical aspects of organizational leadership
- Write and publish in applied journals on issues related to organization and leadership development
- Develop a commercially viable final project that integrates a biblical and global perspectives and evidences a deep understanding of the theory and practice of organizational leadership
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| Strategic Leadership Major Specific Outcomes |
- Evaluate and provide advice on succession planning to client organizations
- Assess organizational lifecycles, and determine new avenues for spiritual, mental and physical leadership development and renewal
- Monitor and assess organizations’ skills to innovate and create to foster the development of learning organizational environments continually to achieve higher levels of organizational performance in effectiveness and efficiency.
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| Strategic Foresight Major Specific Outcomes |
- Lead a scenario learning process for a leadership team that analyzes emerging trends, and tests the organizational strategy against a range of these possible futures.
- Evaluate the long-term impact of a policy intervention in the context of a national or regional forecast of 21st century driving forces.
- Conduct an audit of a client organization and offer suggestions on how they might improve their anticipatory management to frame and advance their mission.
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| Leadership Coaching Major Specific Outcomes |
- Complete an assessment on an organization’s readiness to begin an internal coaching initiative incorporating a strategic plan for a long-term organizational coaching program.
- Develop a training seminar for managers on incorporating a coaching style of management for improved work performance in the areas of soft skill development for their followers.
- Perform a 360-degree feedback assessment on a leader including a full debrief session and long-term coaching relationship based on the findings of the assessment and the leader’s personal development goals.
- Create, market, and launch a coaching business.
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The coursework combines an extensive survey of theory drawn from the fields of sociology, psychology, theology, organizational theory and other allied disciplines with a Judeo-Christian perspective that will further your understanding of transformational principles. Balancing the analysis of human dynamics and corporate systems, we facilitate the development of leaders who understand the intricacies of organizational change.
Three majors to choose from
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Leadership Coaching Major
Course Requirements | Course Map
Designed for students engaged in or preparing for executive-level coaching roles, the Leadership Coaching major combines extensive coursework from both organizational leadership and the field of coaching to provide students with a unique platform for impacting those who lead organizations. Graduates often serve as consultants, coaches or in various leadership roles that utilize the coaching function at a mid-management to executive level.
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Strategic Foresight Major
Course Requirements Course Map
Equipping students with the insights necessary to plan for and address future opportunities and challenges, the Strategic Foresight major offers students a unique preparation for leading strategic initiatives that require a futures perspective. Graduates of the program will typically assume roles as strategic leaders within the organization, consultants in the field of strategic foresight or university instructors teaching leadership and strategic foresight. |
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Strategic Leadership Major
Course Requirements Course Map
Incorporating the theories, methodologies and concepts vital to leading and transforming organizations, the major in Strategic Leadership provides an integrated approach to this multidisciplinary field which includes studies in sociology, psychology, theology, organizational theory and other allied disciplines. With a foundation in biblical leadership principles, the Strategic Leadership major also addresses traditional theory, contemporary thought and practical applications that have the greatest impact on leading organizations.
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Conducted online, the Doctor of Strategic Leadership uses autonomous learning methods that require students to learn independently, but not alone. Students in the DSL program will be engaged in a transformational process, which employs intellectual and spiritual truths that redefine one's comprehension of leadership and enhance one's impact in the workplace. To learn about admission requirements and to apply, visit our admissions site. |
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