Abstract
Effective leaders are essential to the success of their organizations. As organizations require leaders who are professionally ready, business academic programs are responsible for educating their students to be able to effectively lead across cultural, religious, political, and organizational boundaries. This paper presents an academic strategy for leadership development that was advanced by the Department of Management at the United States Coast Guard Academy. According to the program’s goals, students are expected to discover and master their own leadership style as well as to advance businesses competencies, critical thinking, and communication skills. The strategy of professional development must be advanced over four years of undergraduate study in order to produce leaders who will effectively fulfill the mission of their own organization.
Highlights
Today, successful organizations recognize the importance of effective leadership
This paper presents an educational leadership development approach that has been advanced at the U.S Coast Guard Academy (USCGA)
The USCGA is a public institution aimed at providing an undergraduate education, and physical and military training to the cadets who will serve as leaders in the United States Coast Guard (USCG)
Summary
Successful organizations recognize the importance of effective leadership. As the world has been changing fast, the behavioral characteristics of leaders in organizations must respond to those changes. The leadership education must be revised over time to adequately prepare leaders for an increasingly challenging environment and to develop leaders who demonstrate effective strategies in their actions in order to obtain the best performance of their organizations within specific cultural, social, political, and economic situations (Maellaro, 2013). The process of leadership skills development at USCGA has been attained through both the curricular and extra-curricular programs with an emphasis on self-leadership, business competencies, communication, critical thinking, and information literacy (IL) skills advancement. These five leadership skills demonstrate competencies that effective CG leaders must acquire in order to successfully lead and execute CG missions. Zapalska et al Interdisciplinary Education and Psychology. 2017, 1:2
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