Leadership and work community skillsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You are able to lead yourself, and develop your self-leadership skills and general competences as a responsible member of your work community.
You are able to analyse and develop work community collaboration by means of solution-oriented approaches.
You are able to appropriately apply leadership models.
You are able to act as a leader in workplace situations that supervisors typically encounter.

Content

How do you lead yourself?
How do you identify various roles, behavioral patterns and phenomena in work communities?
How do you communicate and act as a responsible member of a work community and lead it?
How do you apply leadership models in various types of organisations?
How do you develop work community collaboration in a goal-oriented way?
How do you act as a leader and supervisor in changing work environments?

Accomplishment methods

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
b. assess information sources critically.
c. work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
d. assess operations in customer/client, user and target groups situations.
e. choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
f. promote teams´ goal-oriented operation.
g. apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.