Strategic Management and Leadership UCL

Overview

The aim of the Strategic Management and Leadership course from UCL Summer School is to show how vision is shaped through leadership, transformed into strategy, and executed through effective management. Vision sets purpose, leadership provides direction and adaptability, and management organises people and resources to achieve results. The module highlights how these disciplines depend on one another and how alignment among them drives long-term organisational success.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the module, students will have:

• Developed strategic thinking skills, capabilities and competences.

• Identified leadership traits and adopted leadership types.

• Formulated and implemented organisational strategies.

• Understood the visual way to present strategies via strategy maps, processes and diagrams.

• Performed qualitative and quantitative data analysis on synthesising corporate strategies.

• Critically analysed and evaluated organisational strategies.

• Selected and used relevant strategic management and leadership frameworks.

• Integrated philosophy on strategic management and leadership decisions.

• Developed complex reasoning and rhetorical communication and persuasion skills.