Instructional Design Document

Type of Course – Leadership Development Course

Name of Course: Leadership and Coaching

Document Author: Dr. Lutheran M. Carter IV

Executive Summary

Quality organizational health is almost always contingent upon great team leadership. Consequently, this course is about developing, sustaining, and mobilizing people teams across various organizational sectors (e.g. healthcare, financial, educational, etc.), which demands robust knowledge in team leadership modeling and coaching. The course will examine leadership models, styles, and techniques in order to apply them across various organizational structures and environments. Additionally, this course will equip leaders to develop personal leadership self-awareness, that is to understand their leadership personality traits and preferable leadership styles in order to become a high impact team leader and coach.  

Learning Gap: Having been a senior leader in the military for 23 years, there is a need to focus on preparing junior military members for future leadership opportunities. However, many young service members are not given the opportunity to lead nor are there any in-depth courses provided that will help improve their leadership abilities. Therefore, the purpose of this course is to introduce them to new leadership and coaching models that they can utilize in their daily work life.

Audience: Military members who hold the rank of E-5.

Performance Objectives:

By the end of this course, doctoral learners will:

1. Understand how leaders develop, sustain, and mobilize individuals in teams across various organizational sectors.
2. Examine and apply leadership (and coaching) models, styles, and techniques across various organizational structures and environments.
3. Develop a self-awareness to understand how leadership personality traits and leadership styles are used to become high impact team leader and coach. 

Instructional Strategies:

Learning Objective 1 – learners will review the McKinsey 7s Model, Team Mental Models, and different forms of accountability.

Learning Objective 2 – learners will review the Grow Model as well as the Situational Leadership Model.

Learning Objective 3 – Learners will review various leadership theories and how the contribute to coaching.

Assessment Strategies:

1. Individual Assignments – Learners will provide 1000-1200 word papers that address the course content such as Team Mental Models. For example, they will conduct their individual research, comparing and contrasting different shared mental models and how these shared mental models contribute to teams.

2. Discussion Questions – Provide meaningful inputs regarding weekly topics while responding to their classmates.

Course Outline and Sequencing:

Week 1: Overview of the Course Syllabus and Team Mental Models. The first week will provide an overview of the 7-week course along with the expectations. The professor will review the syllabus and answer any questions regarding the participation points, assignments, etc. In addition to providing an overview of this course, the first week will focus on shared mental models and how leaders use these shared mental models to facilitate teamwork and performance.

Week 2:  Developing and Sustaining Teams. This week will focus on how the McKinsey 7S Model and other models are used to develop teams and sustain their performance.

Week 3:  Coaching Models.  This week’s lesson will focus on how the concept of coaching has evolved over the years and the various coaching models that have emerged as a result.

Week 4: Leadership Theories (Models) and Their Contributions to Coaching Teams. Week four will focus on how the situational leadership model aligns with coaching behaviors exhibited among organizational leaders. Additionally, learners will select three additional leadership models (or theories) and analyze how these models (or theories) contribute to teams.

Week 5: Organizational and Societal Need for Team Leadership and Coaching. Week five will focus on why coaching is can be viewed as a societal or organizational need.  

Week 6: Team Accountability. Week six will focus on accountability within the organization. As leaders, we owe it to our team members (who are performing) to hold those who are not performing accountable. Keep in mind that accountability is not always about punishments; instead, accountability is about correcting counterproductive behaviors in the organization. In week six, we will explore how organizations, specifically team leaders, hold themselves and their team accountable.

How many chucks of content? Six chunks of content – two for each learning outcome.

Does the content need to be taking in a particular order or can participants jump around? The answer is no. The content is broken down into six weeks. One content per week, starting with week 1.

Which learning model are you using to develop your course? I am still researching different models, however, at the moment is am focusing on Understanding by Design.

How can participants ask for help? By emailing the instructor directly.

Which learning theories are you using in your course:

Constructivism because young service members will be challenged to use their higher level thought process in order to create a better understanding of leadership and coaching.

Behaviorism – Students will be doing research papers and answering discussion questions.

Connectivism – Because this is an online learning class with some interaction.

Course standards:

This course will utilize scholarly peer-reviewed articles, professor lectures, and doctoral learner interaction through weekly discussion questions, scholarly research, and knowledge assessments.