This course will provide application for the development of skills necessary to be an effective and efficient leader regarding communication, motivation and corporate decision making. The role of human resources and leadership theory in an atmosphere of complexity and multi-culturalism will be explored. Current issues and challenges in sport from a leadership and managerial perspective will be discussed.

Requirements:

Regular attendance

Maintain a weekly Leadership Assignments Journal

Leadership project

Test

Collins, Jim(2001), Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t.HarperCollins.

Hughes et al. (2015), Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience.McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

Lussier& Kimball, Applied Sport Management Skills (2014).Human Kinetics.

Wooden & Jamison, Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization (2005).McGraw-Hill.

Content:

Leading in the sports environment

Leadership styles, structure, and theory

Finding and hiring the right people in sport business

Wooden’s pyramid of success as a foundation of leadership in the sport context

Leadership development in sport organizations

Creative problem solving and decision making

Strategic and operational planning in fitness and sport organizations

Using power and influence

Importance and maintenance of ethics and values for all sport stakeholders

Motivation, satisfaction and performance

Controlling for quality and productivity

Contingency theories of sport leadership

Leadership and change in the global sport environment

Sport culture, innovation and diversity