The course develops the engineer's skills in communicative leadership with tools from leadership theory, negotiation theory and rhetoric. The course focuses on the leader's challenges and how these can be handled with communicative strategies.
The course is given as seminars, with short theoretical lectures and active student participation.
The general aim of the course is that the engineer should understand and acquire theoretical perspectives on communicative leadership and develop their own ability to communicate and lead in professional contexts.
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- give an account of different perspectives on leadership as well as what characterises various leadership paradigms.
- reflect on their own leadership from the perspective of different leadership paradigms.
- connect communicative leadership to negotiation, and be able to analyse and plan challenging communication situations with tools related to rhetoric and various negotiation strategies.