Syllabus

Certificates of Advanced Graduate Study in Education

EDU 770 Maximizing the Talent in Your Organization

Credits - 3

Description

Institutions must acquire talented individuals. Once they are on board, they must also develop and retain the talent of a diverse workforce to ensure that the organization continues to adapt to ever-changing demands upon its resources. Participants will explore various growth and incentive-based models for personnel. This course will help future leaders examine the methods to implement an evaluation model in their organization which is a product of the collaborative voice of those impacted and engaged by it.

Materials

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Evaluate best practices strategies in Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, and Talent Retention (TA, TD, & TR), apply those strategies to organizational mission, vision, and values, and formulate a plan to address organizational deficiencies through the application of these strategies through the leadership responsibility of Supervision and Evaluation. (Organizational Success Through Supervision and Evaluation)
2. Apply best practices in TA, TD, & TR effectively and efficiently resulting in improved leadership effectiveness as measured by reduction in organizational deficiencies. (Leadership Effectiveness Through Supervision and Evaluation)
3. Identify organizational levers that impact organizational culture and formulate a plan to implement best practices strategies in TA, TD, & TR to positively impact organizational culture. (Highly Effective Organizational Culture Through Supervision and Evaluation)
4. By the end of this course, students will be able to communicate TA, TD & TR strategies to positively diversity, equity, and inclusion and formulate a system to increase TA of diverse talent, build the capacity of current organizational talent build informed understanding of equity and inclusion factors that positively impact organizational culture through TD, and apply a system to differentiate rewards and value-based compensation strategies to achieve improved TR. (Organizational Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Supervision and Evaluation)
5. Analyze organizational outcome deficiencies and formulate a plan to apply TA, TD & TR strategies that link maximizing talent through supervision and evaluation to improved organizational outcomes. (Supervision and Evaluation Supporting Talent Development)
6. Formulate and implement a plan that applies best practices in TA to address organizational outcome deficiencies and to continuously improve organizational outcomes through maximizing talent leveraging supervision and evaluation. (Supervision and Evaluation Supporting Talent Acquisition)
7. Identify and apply key TR levers to unique and diverse internal organizational stakeholders through maximizing external stakeholder supports resulting in increased TR rates which contribute to improved organizational outcomes. (Supervision and Evaluation Supporting Talent Retention)
8. Formulate a personal leadership philosophy that embeds TA, TD & TR best practice strategies resulting in improved leadership capacity and capabilities to maximize talent through supervision and evaluation leadership responsibilities and improve organizational outcomes. (Personalizing Your Leadership “Toolbox” Through Supervision and Evaluation)

Assignments

Weekly discussions and practical assignments are key to this course.

Discussions

The discussion topics will provide an opportunity to share content and ideas, as well as exchange feedback in this course. You will post a response to a prompt presented in the weekly whole class discussion forum. Initial posts must be submitted by 11:59 pm ET on Wednesday of each week (Week 1 exception: initial post is due on Friday); second posts must be submitted by 11:59 pm ET on Sunday of each week.

Week 1 Assignment

You will be role-playing a leader providing a presentation to your governance board. Your task is to respond to organizational underperformance and what should be done to achieve the desired outcomes.

Week 2 Assignment

This week you will be sharing your district’s evaluation system with the educational community in the form of a newsletter. You will share what it is intended to achieve, how you will apply the system to achieve that outcome, and how you will measure the success of the evaluation system.

Week 3 Assignment

This week you will be producing an onboarding plan for new staff in the form of a tri-fold brochure to orientate them to the organizational culture and establish a clear understanding of staff expectations as measured through the staff evaluation process. 

Week 4 Assignment

This week you will be leading a discussion with your leadership team and empowering the team to develop a plan of action to improve a data point that is not consistent with the organizational outcomes desired. You will be producing a document, an “Action Research Proposal”, to share with all stakeholders.

Week 5 Assignment

You will be producing your year’s-end talent development budget for sharing with your governance team.

Week 6 Assignment

This week you will be replicating a Design Thinking strategy to achieve a diverse talent acquisition process that will result in acquiring diverse talent that reflects the communities that your educational setting serves.

Week 7 Assignment

Imagine you are meeting with stakeholder groups. Your goal is to produce a plan of action that would empower these support groups to assist in the talent retention process through identifying services, supports, and systems that can be used as a supplement to current compensation plans for professionals.

Week 8 Assignment

In your final week, you will be putting it all together. Imagine you are applying for a position in evaluation and supervision. As part of the interview process is a screener question where you must respond to a number of questions demonstrating your understanding, capacity, and insights into successful leadership evidenced through Talent-focused vision.

Grading Policy

Your grade in this course will be determined by the following criteria:

Grade Breakdown

Assignments and Activities	Point Value
Weekly Discussions	40 pts (8 @ 5 pts each)
Weekly Practical Assignments	60 pts (8 @ 7.5 pts each)
Total	100

Grade Scale

Grade	Points Grade	Point Average (GPA)
A	94 – 100%	4.00
A-	90 – 93%	3.75
B+	87 – 89%	3.50
B	84 – 86%	3.00
B-	80 – 83%	2.75
C+	77 – 79%	2.50
C	74 – 76%	2.00
C-	70 – 73%	1.75
D	64 – 69%	1.00
F	00 – 63%	0.00