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Organizational, Strategic & Executive Leadership
Charles H. Polk School of Leadership and Professional Development
Leadership Competencies at MSU
Leading in a Climate of Change
Leaders creates cultures and open environments which thrive in living systems with continuous and discontinuous change.
- Holds future vision – Creates clarity and focus with shared vision; fosters optimism and hope through a belief in alternative realities; perceives change as natural within a living system and as a source of vitality.
- Maintains positive orientation – Embraces and engages reality in a way that leads to ending problems, resolving problems, or transforming problems; manages stressors in chaos or crisis situation to generate productive performance.
- Expands capacity for change – Encourages creativity and innovation by challenging the status quo; identifies and responds to emerging imperatives; engages in and supports entrepreneurial thinking and initiatives.
- Cultivates environmental awareness – Maintains vigilant orientation and practices situation sensing; recognizes patterns and systems separated in time and distance; acts on current events from an integrated perspective of past, present and future; seeks out a wide array of sources; enlarges picture beyond oneself.
- Embraces ambiguity and paradox – Operates effectively in situations which lack clarity or have conflicting values or direction; finds value and balance to achieve meaningful purpose in the current reality; allows for discovery of order and resists premature closure.
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Key Features
- Flexible Learning Format with convenient, accessible scheduling through online or classroom adult-oriented learning environments.
- Accelerated Degree Program
Ability to complete program OL major of 48 credit hours in 18 months.
- Credit for Prior Learning and Training
Recognition of previous education and work experience.
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- Regional Accreditation
The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association.
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- Affordable Tuition
Full-time financial aid availability and reasonable costs.
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- Faculty
Academic credentials and real-world experience.
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- Cohort Classes
Complete the program major with the same group of peers from start to finish.
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