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: A truly useful advanced degree in business should go beyond spreadsheets and day-to-day management. It should concentrate on building the skills and knowledge that executives require to work with the people, organizational systems, and complex information on which their success—and their company’s—depends.
Mountain State University’s Master of Science in Strategic Leadership (M.S.S.L.) will help you attain those skills. An outstanding faculty and an emphasis on real-world leadership make it one of the soundest career investments you can make, and a format that accommodates the needs of adult learners puts it within reach even if you’re already juggling a job, family, and personal responsibilities. Designed to build practical and useful leadership skills, the M.S.S.L. program encourages participants to build a “leadership skill set” that will serve them well throughout their career no matter where they go or what type of organization they support. Exposure to a wide variety of real-world, real-time organizational problems helps participants learn how to develop not only strategies for problem solving but also solutions.
The educational concept is simple: Break the challenge of leadership into blocks that have real organizational meaning; discuss the latest in conceptual solutions to those challenges; use experienced mentors to help the participants apply these conceptual frameworks to real-world, real-time organizational problem sets; and give participants constant feedback on their use of these problem-solving skills. As a result, participants develop the individualized and practical problem-solving strategies they and their organizations need to succeed.
Whether they are preparing an analysis and making solution-based recommendations or preparing a position paper to address a business problem, participants are constantly working to expand and effectively use their skills. They acquire such tools as advanced proficiency in analytical and inductive reasoning, expertise in strategic planning and organizational development, and proficiency in the effective management of strategic human resources. They bring back to their organizations dexterity in creative problem solving, quality management, contingency thinking, and the effective use of teams, as well as the development, use, and integration of performance assessments that help organizations maintain a competitive advantage. |
