Tags
SBE
Admissions requirements
The World of Entrepreneurs
Description
“Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.” —-Anon
This course trains you how to become more effective in making decisions and getting things done through a series of assessments of values, assumptions and habits that will strengthen your empathetic, ethical and expressive qualities. The first part of each class focuses on analytical, ethical, and empathetic reflection, while the second part builds professional and personal skills. To be effective in school, work and private life, students must be able to exhibit a range of functional skills such as project planning, financial management, legal agreement and personal skills such as presenting, listening and negotiating. These skills will help you to navigate the complexities of life.
Course objectives
After completing this course you will be able to:
Explore new ways to handle pace, information, and unpredictability
Apply management intervention skills in team environments
Integrate customers into cooperation and competition
Focus on critical elements in negotiations
Explore and use listening as a means of persuasion
Differentiate between appropriate negotiation strategies
Recognize and use self-management techniques
Have a clearer vision on your personal future
Present yourself effectively
Timetable
Once available, timetables will be published here.
Mode of instruction
Interactive lectures, workshops, coaching
Assessment
- Essay/reframe 30% (Pass/Fail Basis)
- Impact project *Impact experience in class (group grade) 30% *Impact report (group grade) 15%
- Daily reflections (journaling) 10% (Pass/Fail Basis)
- Class assignments 15% (Pass/Fail Basis) *Eulogy (5%) *Mission statement (5%) *Autobiography (5%)
Blackboard
There will be a Blackboard site available for this course. Students will be enrolled at least one week before the start of classes.
Reading list
Stephen R. Covey, “Seven habits of highly effective people” (1989), chapters on Habit 1 and Habit 3.
Carol Dweck, “Mindsets and human nature: Promoting change in the Middle East, the schoolyard, the racial divide, and willpower”, American Psychologist, 67:8 (2012): 614-622.
Marshall Rozenberg “Nonviolent Communication” (2011) chapter 1 & 2.
Karim Benammar, Reframing or the art of thinking differently, (Amsterdam: Boom, 2012), chapter 4 & 5 (pp. 55-75).
Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal: Beware of the busy manager: HBR https://hbr.org/2002/02/beware-the-busy-manager
Melanie Mitchell, Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Chapters 1 (“What is Complexity?”).
Registration
This course is open to LUC students and LUC exchange students. Registration is coordinated by the Education Coordinator. Interested non-LUC students should contact course.administration@luc.leidenuniv.nl.
Contact
Wicher Schols
wicher@wicherschols.com