OFIN 3370 - Advanced Leadership and Management

As a future inspiring leader, your day-to-day will be strongly people driven.

This course prepares you for that reality.

Today, organizations invest actively in employer branding, empowerment, coaching, people experience and soft skills because Human Resources evolves constantly to support performance and innovation.

As future managers, executives or entrepreneurs, the way you will handle human capital can expand your leadership and accelerate your growth.

In multicultural environments, you will also need to work with people who have different mindsets and backgrounds, and this will be part of your leadership journey.

No specific pre-requisite. You just need to enjoy learning & playing at the same time!

To improve retention and create a more interactive learning experience, no devices (no computer, mobile or tablet) are allowed during class. Paper and pen only. Devices are allowed only for homework presentations or final case studies.

This course aims to provide a 360° overview of human capital management within multicultural organizations. It will follow the main steps of the employee journey (recruiting, onboarding, development, retention and exit) and the key interactions between managers and the Human Resources function.

You will better discover yourself, your values, your personality and the projection of your ideal professional life. We will also see how to:

• Use your management style to become a successful and inspiring leader.
• Identify and build a strong team around you.
• Empower and motivate them using innovative management techniques.
• Manage a team in a multicultural environment.

Everything you will learn here will help you both your personal and professional lives!

The evaluation and grading will be as follows:

• 50% continuous assessment based on your active participation in class and your homework.
• 50% final case study per group presented in front of a jury (20-30’ presentation + 10’ Q&A). The groups and subjects will be chosen at the end of the first course.

Class Participation: Active class participation makes classes lively and instructive. Come on time and prepared. Participation is based on the quality of comments, not quantity.

The Final Case Study: 50% group performance and 50% individual performance. Your evaluation criteria:

• Equal participation: Everyone is expected to participate equally during the case study discussions.
• Utilize course knowledge.
• Creative thinking: Sky's the limit.
• Realistic plan and/or problem-solving.
• Explore sustainable ideas and/or solutions.
• And have fun 

The numerical grade distribution will dictate the final grade. The passing grade for a course is 10/20.

The workload for this course is primarily linked to the homework assignments, which directly

feed into the final case studies. You should plan an average of around 3 hours every two

weeks to prepare your homework and case study work in groups.

Each homework is designed to support your progress and prepare you for the final exam, so

that you arrive confident and ready.

Most homework is group based, therefore coordination within your group will be one of the

main challenges. Learning how to coordinate and work efficiently as a team is an integral

part of the learning experience of this course.