COMM 3310

Reflections on Leadership explores the meaning of leadership in today's changing world, enabling students' capacity and capability to influence change and position themselves as a positive force within organizations and society. Students will explore how to engage and navigate an organization as a complex adaptive system and to envision the fundamental competencies required to engage in complexity through use of dialogue, adaptation and resilience. Students learn reflexive strategies to enable self-awareness and effective leadership practices. The course will consider ways to approach leadership through lenses of, for instance, Indigenous knowledge co-operation and sustainability. Emphasis will be placed on the interrogation of the long history of leadership theory and practices, questioning assumptions about leadership and by addressing its long history of patriarchy and colonization. Students will question accepted norms and consider how issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility and decolonization (EDIAD) can change the future of leadership in both theory and practice.