Course Description
While much of learning is often centered around courses and content, the goal of this course is to center learning around a mentoring relationship with someone with significant experience and expertise. The goal of this course is to be more mentoring relationship focused and less content focused. To achieve this goal students taking this course will be able to choose one of two options:
- City Vision Online Mentoring. You can choose a mentor from City Vision’s list of mentors (see below). You will meet with your mentor via Zoom or another video conferencing tool.
- Local Mentoring (current work context). You can choose a mentor based at your work or ministry location. The goal is that you would interact with a mentor who will direct, encourage and evaluate their activities as you minister and work in real life situations. To choose this option, you must send in a signed mentor agreement for two weeks before the term starts. If you select a local mentor, you should let them know that they will not be paid for mentoring. To receive academic credit, City Vision will assign you a faculty member to do the grading for the course.
Students interested in taking this course must first have a mentoring plan approved. This course may be taken a second time as ORG751.
Course Outcomes
- Develop a mentoring plan of how mentoring in this course will help you achieve your growth goals.
- Reflect on your meetings with your mentor and work environment toward your mentoring goals in this course.
- Apply the material from reading two books to help you achieve your mentoring goals.
- Integrate your growth from mentoring meetings, readings in this course and reflections on your work experience in a final paper synthesizing your growth toward your mentoring goals.
DOLI Degree Program Outcomes
Degree outcomes are the overall skills and knowledge we expect you will have after successfully completing a degree program at City Vision University. This course supports the following program outcomes, marked with an (I) for Introduce, (D) for Develop and an (M) for Mastery. After completing the degree, you will be able to do the following in each of the listed domains:
- Research methods. Apply action research methods to practical research topics in the field.
- Diffusion of Innovation. Utilize technology and relational networking to help diffuse innovations within a community of practice.
- Values Alignment. To develop a theological vision and to align your organization’s strategy, culture and systems with that vision to avoid secularization and mission drift.
- Strategy. To develop a synthesis to integrate a wide range of business skills into a strategic plan for starting or growing an organization.
- Social Entrepreneurship. Develop strategies and plans to effectively use technology and innovation to achieve organizational goals.
- Action Research Project. Synthesize action research with theory and practice to solve a practical challenge facing your organization and/or the larger field.
Concentration Outcomes
- 7a. Executive Leadership & Fundraising. Develop and implement plans to grow an organization in its impact, financial health and relational health. (M)
- 7b. Nonprofit Program Leadership & Social Entrepreneurship. Improve the effectiveness of nonprofit programs by implementing best practices. (M)
- 7c. Education Leadership and Innovation. Apply disruptive and continuous innovation principles to designing courses and programs to provide radically affordable and practical online education. (M)
- 7d. Organizational Culture and Change Management. Develop and implement plans to improve organizational health and adapt to change. (M)
- 7e. Trauma-Informed Counseling Management. Develop and implement plans to establish trauma-informed culture of health throughout an organization. (M)
Broad Institutional Doctoral Outcomes
- I1. Knowledge (Head). Apply a wide range of tools to help solve society’s great problems by shifting from a single lens/tool/discipline to a multiple lens, multifaceted Biblical understanding of reality.
- I2. Skills (Hands). Develop the skills you need for the next position in your development as a leader by shifting from mastery & understanding of a division in an organization to a comprehensive systemic mastery/understanding needed to lead across the organization.
- I3. Attitudes/Character (Heart). Develop the character and discipline needed to step into greater leadership roles by losing the bias of your old position to gain broader perspective and intellectual humility needed to accelerate your commitment to lifelong learning.
Syllabus
Course Materials & Tuition
| Books: students self-select 2 books. You may find it helpful to review the book recommendations here. | |
| Most material in the course will be provided in handouts and lectures | Free |
| Tuition | $ |
| Total Cost of Course: | $ |