Second-Year Practicing Leadership: Peer and Pod Coaching

EDU L203AY Subject & Catalog Number

Description

We are living in a time of rapid change. The continuous emergence of novel complex challenges in organizational life poses an increased need for agile, effective leadership practices that can consider implications to the whole of an organizational system, even when addressing singular problems.

When it comes to exercising effective leadership and productively navigating the complexity of our modern times, the hidden yet felt socio-organizational dynamics are often the most impactful, yet the least understood aspect of organizational life. While, Year 1 (L104) of PLIO focuses on building awareness and critical skill sets at the individual and interpersonal levels, Year 2 (L203), zooms out to the broader organizational landscape in order to deepen our conceptualization and applications of critical capacities needed to understand what is happening at all levels of the system (Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Group as a Whole, Intergroup, & Inter-Organizational).

In this year-long course, Ed.L.D. students will iteratively practice a set of methods for analyzing the socio-organizational dynamics in organizations their impact on the exercise of leadership and uses of authority. Students will practice applying a select set of concepts from Systems Psychodynamics to their own leadership cases while continuing to fortify their learnings from Year 1 PLIO (L104). Through the introduction of peer coaching methods and additional peer consultation frameworks, students will continue to identify and expand upon a set of personal best practices to carry forward in their Year 3 residency and beyond.

Year 2 PLIO (L203) engages Ed.L.D. students in the following set of inquiries;

• How might we deepen our understanding of the impact of hidden dynamics that slow progress within the organizations that we work at multiple levels of the system? 
• How might we determine which types of tools are needed when to exercise impactful leadership and mobilize others towards meaningful change? 
• How can I design a personal theory of action that helps me navigate complex organizational dynamics that can elicit strong emotional and somatic reactions in a manner that is personally sustainable? 
• What specific personal liabilities and assets are currently present in me and what actions do I need to take in order to develop an enhanced practice that allows me to show up well in a manner that aligns with my values? 
• How can I leverage the brilliance and various view points of my professional peers to further my continued developmental growth and how can I return that support in kind?
• How can we continue to build a community of learning within the Ed.L.D. ecosphere during Year 3 residency and beyond?

Permission of instructor required. Enrollment is limited to second-year Ed.L.D. students. No audits are permissible. Class times listed in the catalog are approximate; check the Ed.L.D. master calendar for specific meeting times.