What is GLM?The Global Leadership & Team Decision Making Minor is a collaboration between the Shelton Leadership Center and NC State European Center in Prague. The Global Leadership and Team Decision-Making minor is a 15-hour minor that is designed for students who seek to gain greater knowledge and understanding of leadership and team decision-making from a European global perspective. The coursework is composed of courses grounded in theory, inquiry, and application. We earned 12 out of the 15 credit hours during the study abroad, and SLC 250 being taken in Raleigh beforehand.
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Courses
SLC 250 - Critical and Creative Decision Making Models
Location: Raleigh, NC
Instructor: Debbie Acker
This course is designed for the student who wants to learn to think critically and creatively when making decisions taking into consideration a variety of decision making models across (sub) disciplines. Throughout the course, students will be presented a minimum of 4 models on decision-making and thinking processes across (sub) disciplines to consider when addressing different problems. Questions will be asked of students in a way that will foster critical and creative thinking in order to analyze, process, and identify effective ways for approaching a problem/situation using the models presented.
Location: Raleigh, NC
Instructor: Debbie Acker
This course is designed for the student who wants to learn to think critically and creatively when making decisions taking into consideration a variety of decision making models across (sub) disciplines. Throughout the course, students will be presented a minimum of 4 models on decision-making and thinking processes across (sub) disciplines to consider when addressing different problems. Questions will be asked of students in a way that will foster critical and creative thinking in order to analyze, process, and identify effective ways for approaching a problem/situation using the models presented.
SLC 474 - Capstone for Global Leadership and Team Decision Making
Location: Prague, CZ
Instructor: Debbie Acker
This course prepares students to demonstrate leadership competencies through the lens of a global mindset. The more students are exposed to new experiences, the more they will be adaptable to the ever changing challenges globally, today and in the future. The course will enhance their ability to articulate and apply their understanding of what it means to practice being a global minded leader today while seeking to be employed in their field of study following graduation. Based on readings, experiences and courses associated with the Global Leadership and Team Decision Making Minor, students will be asked to reflect on the way their course topics and cultural experiences in four countries (United States, Czech Republic, Germany and Austria) compare and contrast the way in which students prior knowledge and understanding of global leadership and teamwork in organizations was to what develops over their cohort experiences abroad.
Location: Prague, CZ
Instructor: Debbie Acker
This course prepares students to demonstrate leadership competencies through the lens of a global mindset. The more students are exposed to new experiences, the more they will be adaptable to the ever changing challenges globally, today and in the future. The course will enhance their ability to articulate and apply their understanding of what it means to practice being a global minded leader today while seeking to be employed in their field of study following graduation. Based on readings, experiences and courses associated with the Global Leadership and Team Decision Making Minor, students will be asked to reflect on the way their course topics and cultural experiences in four countries (United States, Czech Republic, Germany and Austria) compare and contrast the way in which students prior knowledge and understanding of global leadership and teamwork in organizations was to what develops over their cohort experiences abroad.
FTM 484 - Strategic Planning and Decision Making in the Textile and Fashion Industries
Location: Prague, CZ
Instructors: Helmut Hergeth, Václav Švec
The course provides a framework for understanding and analyzing strategic planning and decision making in the textile and apparel supply chain, from fiber through retail. It integrates theory and practice through lectures, case studies, and exercises to provide students an understanding of the competitive dynamics in the textile industry, including structural and behavioral components and the role of entrepreneurship.
Location: Prague, CZ
Instructors: Helmut Hergeth, Václav Švec
The course provides a framework for understanding and analyzing strategic planning and decision making in the textile and apparel supply chain, from fiber through retail. It integrates theory and practice through lectures, case studies, and exercises to provide students an understanding of the competitive dynamics in the textile industry, including structural and behavioral components and the role of entrepreneurship.
MIE 430 - Teamwork in Organizations
Location: Reutlingen, DE
Instructors: Leigh Shamblin, Hazel Gruenewald
This course will impart cutting-edge thinking on leading in team-based organizations, including the organizational factors required to create successful work teams. In this class you will explore your personality, strengths, preferences, and leadership style. You will also gain insights into working with others from different cultures. This class is practice-oriented so that you have a chance not only to think about, but also test new approaches towards working in teams. The course utilizes lectures, self-assessments, classroom activities, personal development/reflection papers and site visits to enhance your skills as a global team leader. By the end of the course, you will be better able to describe who you are and have a solid and broad toolkit to enable you to navigate working more successfully in global and diverse teams.
Location: Reutlingen, DE
Instructors: Leigh Shamblin, Hazel Gruenewald
This course will impart cutting-edge thinking on leading in team-based organizations, including the organizational factors required to create successful work teams. In this class you will explore your personality, strengths, preferences, and leadership style. You will also gain insights into working with others from different cultures. This class is practice-oriented so that you have a chance not only to think about, but also test new approaches towards working in teams. The course utilizes lectures, self-assessments, classroom activities, personal development/reflection papers and site visits to enhance your skills as a global team leader. By the end of the course, you will be better able to describe who you are and have a solid and broad toolkit to enable you to navigate working more successfully in global and diverse teams.
PRT 359 - Organizational Leadership in Parks, Recreation, Tourism and Event Management
Locations: Munich, DE; Innsbruck, AU
Instructors: Kyle Bunds, Jason Bocarro
The course provides both classroom instruction and experiential learning opportunities to develop awareness and operational skills in leadership, group dynamics, and supervision. Embedded throughout the content of this course, you will become adept at using the intellectual standards for critical and creative thinking in evaluating the work of others, as well as solving problems/addressing questions in sport, recreation, & tourism management. You will also be introduced to tools to help you reflect on your own thinking (i.e. metacognition).
Locations: Munich, DE; Innsbruck, AU
Instructors: Kyle Bunds, Jason Bocarro
The course provides both classroom instruction and experiential learning opportunities to develop awareness and operational skills in leadership, group dynamics, and supervision. Embedded throughout the content of this course, you will become adept at using the intellectual standards for critical and creative thinking in evaluating the work of others, as well as solving problems/addressing questions in sport, recreation, & tourism management. You will also be introduced to tools to help you reflect on your own thinking (i.e. metacognition).
EXPIERIENTIAL APPLICATION
As our world becomes more and more connected, organizations need employees who are adept at working with people who are different from them. Developing attributes that assist to influence others that are from different backgrounds is critical to a globalized workforce. Three components of a global mindset is one's:
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During the program, students identify and examine how their personal values influence the way they make decisions and interact with others on a daily basis, while also considering SLC's five values:
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From a cross-discipline perspective, exemplary faculty from North Carolina State University, Czech University of Life Sciences, and Reutlingen University in Germany provide course experiences that:
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