Organizational Behavior
Understand why people and teams behave as they do, and lead them better.
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Complete all four to earn the Professional Certificate in Enterprise Leadership and create a potential* pathway toward the SEU Enterprise MBA.
MBA Principles
The mental models of leadership
Organizational Behavior
The Human Side of the Three-Legged Stool
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The Economic Models a Leader Actually Runs On
04Live Seminar
A live, in-person capstone experience
*Through Southeastern University's Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) process. Qualification is not guaranteed and is determined through the University's established review process.
Built for people who lead people
An applied, executive-level study of the human side of the three-legged stool: how individuals, teams, and cultures actually behave inside an organization, and how a leader reads and reshapes that behavior. Built end to end around one company, so every concept lands on a real people problem.
- Managers and team leads who get results through others
- Aspiring MBA students who want a head start and a way in
- People leaders in mission-driven and growing organizations
Eight modules, one running company
Follow Citrus Grove Provisions through a continuous case study that helps you connect each framework to your own organization.
What Is Organizational Behavior? The Three Levels
When something breaks, look past the person to three levels: the individual, the team, and the organization.
The Individual I: Instinct and the Kolbe A Index
Read a person by instinct, not personality; the Kolbe A Index and the four Action Modes.
The Individual II: Personality, Emotions, and Structure
System 1 and System 2, the emotions you can govern, and the personal structures that quietly drive behavior.
The Team I: Kolbe, EI, and Group Dynamics
A team has a combined instinct; read it, build psychological safety, and turn conflict constructive.
The Team II: Leadership and Team Building for Growth
There is no best leadership style, only the best fit; meeting cadence and real one-on-ones develop people.
The Organization I: Performance, Metrics, and Purpose
Set performance off the There-Here Path, and separate a real purpose from the number: purpose versus profit, and the Transcendent There.
The Organization II: Culture and Change
Culture is what gets honored and shamed; change the incentive, reward, and authority structures to change it.
Integration: The Three-Legged Stool and the OB Case
Collapse eight modules into one diagnostic method and tie the three levels back to the three-legged stool.
What is included
An experience designed to be worked, not watched.
Practitioners, not just professors
You learn from the people who built these models: company builders, a servant-leadership author, and the scholars who shaped SEU's graduate leadership programs.
Tim Dunn
Co-founder and CEO of CrownQuest Operating
Throughout his career, Tim Dunn has built and invested in organizations and the people who lead them. The lessons he learned through decades of hard work and investment, grounded in the principles of servant leadership and self-governance, now form the foundation of everything he does. As a practitioner of these principles, he continues to invest in and equip other leaders to build healthy, self-governing organizations.
Dave Kuhnert
Author of "Servant Leadership" and Director of The Crossroad
Dave Kuhnert is a servant-leadership practitioner, author, and executive coach who helps leaders build organizations where purpose, culture, and strategy reinforce one another. As the author of Servant Leadership and Building an Organizational Strategy, he equips leaders to create healthy, self-governing organizations that flourish over the long term.
Michael Steiner, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Advancement and Innovation, Southeastern University
Senior Vice President of Advancement and Innovation at Southeastern University, where he leads fundraising and advancement and oversees SEU Fire Athletics. He holds a Ph.D. in business psychology and an MBA, and teaches in the Jannetides College of Business, Communication, and Leadership.
Joshua D. Henson, Ph.D.
Dean, Jannetides College of Business, Communication, and Leadership
Dean of the Jannetides College of Business, Communication, and Leadership at Southeastern University, where he directs the MBA program and holds the rank of Professor of Leadership. He is a widely published scholar of servant and biblical leadership.
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