BUS 520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior
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NOTE: This course will use Teaching Assistants (TAs) to assist your Professor and Jon
Steinberg with the teaching experience.
COURSE GUIDE: BUS 520 Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Leadership, Grit and Bridging the Soft Skills Gap
You are leading the way at your digital startup. This course introduces strategies to inspire,
motivate and build soft skills, grit and resilience in your employees. Topics covered include
talent development, fostering professionalism, followership, teamwork, grit, growth mindset,
critical thinking and decision making.
COURSE DELIVERY
This course will be delivered primarily on Facebook. Upon enrollment, your professor or Strayer
University staff will invite you to join the Facebook Course Group associated with this course. You will
need to use the Facebook app to access this course on your mobile device. If you don’t already have it,
find the steps to download the Facebook Mobile App here: https://www.facebook.com/mobile.
There will also be a corresponding Black Board course shell which you will utilize to check your Grades,
Submit Assignments 1 3 and complete your weekly High Growth Thinking exercises via the and
Blackboard Student App on your phone or the Blackboard course shell on your computer. Find the steps
to download the Blackboard Student App here: Your https://help.blackboard.com/Bb_Student/Quick_Start
professor will also post links in Facebook to take you directly to these items in the Blackboard Course via
the BB Student App.
YOUR REQUIRED READING:
Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: How to Teach the Missing Basics to Today’s Young Talent
Bruce Tulgan-Wiley
Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion and Pluck Take you from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval Penguin Random House
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek Penguin.
BUS 520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior
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WEEKLY COURSE SCHEDULE
The standard requirement for a 4.5 credit hour course is for students to spend 13.5 hours in weekly work.
This includes preparation and activities regardless of delivery mode.
Week
Preparation and Activities
1
The Soft Skills Gap & The Importance of Grit
Preparation
• Watch Jon’s Course Introduction Video
• Watch the Week One Live Lesson
• Reading(s)
o From Grit to Great: Chapter 1 Why Grit Matters
o Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: Chapter 1 The Soft Skills Gap
Activities
• Complete the Week One ( points) Cheddar Chat 18
• Complete the Week One Exercise ( points) **High Growth Thinking 18
**must be completed by Sunday midnight to receive weekly attendance
2
Staffing Strategy/Hiring & Building Grit
