Course Description:
This course examines the environment, opportunities,and challenges of leadership decision making in
contemporary government agency and inter-agency settings. Students examine decision making from
individual, managerial, and multi-party perspectives, using decision models, tools, and environments
to explore decision options and consequences. Decision contexts and the consequences for Federal
Government leaders and organizations are viewed using the multiple perspectives of governance, policy,
technology, culture, and economics. Performance based approaches challenge students to view decisions
as values-based strategic actions influencing decision implementation, shaping primary and secondary
consequences, and achieving desired outcomes.

Recommended Attendance:
The course is critical for DoD officers and civilian executives, and of interest in a comparative sense for other Federal agency officers and civilian executives, who have, or aspire to hold leadership positions with transformation responsibilities.   

Prerequisites
None

Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to analyze leadership decision making and the decision environments in Federal Government agency and inter-agency settings; assess the challenges and opportunities for decision
makers in Federal Government collaborative and information-sharing environments; and assess decision
consequences and outcomes in terms of agency missions, political mandates, and statutory guidance.