Sample Syllabi

Required Assessments

This course uses four Evans Learning Labs diagnostic assessments as primary data sources for reflection assignments and the final development portfolio. All assessments are completed individually and results are private – you are not required to share your scores with the instructor or classmates, though you are encouraged to do so in discussion settings where you are comfortable.

Assessment access is included in the course materials fee. You will create a free Evans Learning Labs account and access tools through your personal dashboard. Each tool takes 15–25 minutes to complete.

Assessment Schedule

Key Assignments

• Reflection 1 (Week 2, 500 words): What does your Personal Effectiveness data reveal about your current operating patterns? Where was the gap between your prediction and your actual score largest, and what might explain it?
• Reflection 2 (Week 4, 500 words): Review your Emotional Intelligence results domain by domain. Identify the single gap most likely to limit your effectiveness as a leader in the next two years. What behavioral change would close it?
• Leadership Development Plan (Week 9, 1,200 words): Using your Leadership Capability Maturity results, design a 90-day development plan targeting your two lowest-scoring domains. Be specific about behavioral targets, resources, and how you will know whether the plan is working.
• Final Portfolio (Week 15, 2,500 words): Integrate all assessment data, reflection assignments, and course learning into a coherent analysis of your development during this term. The Week 14 retake comparison is required evidence. What actually changed? What did not? What will you do next?

Organizational Diagnostic Project

The major project for this course is an organizational diagnostic study using a real organization that you have access to. Working individually or in pairs, you will administer three Evans Learning Labs organizational assessments to a group of 5–10 leaders or employees in the organization, analyze the aggregate results, and produce a diagnostic report with findings and recommendations.

Important: Participants must create their own Evans Learning Labs accounts and complete tools individually. You will be added as an instructor to a shared group, giving you access to aggregate data without seeing individual results. Participants should be informed that their individual scores are private and will not be shared with you or with their organization.

Required Organizational Tools

• Strategic Clarity Index – Assesses how clearly the organization's strategy, priorities, and decision rights are understood at all levels.
• Culture to Performance Index – Evaluates whether organizational culture is a liability, neutral, or a performance accelerator across five behavioral dimensions.
• Execution Effectiveness Index – Diagnoses where execution breaks down: priority clarity, accountability, coordination, decision quality, and execution discipline.

Deliverables

• Organization selection and access memo (Week 3, 300 words): Identify your organization, explain your access, and describe the participant group. Include the instructor's agreement to participate.
• Data collection report (Week 8, 500 words + data tables): Document your data collection process, participant demographics (no names), completion rates, and any issues encountered. Include aggregate domain scores for all three tools.
• Diagnostic report (Week 14, 3,000–4,000 words): Professional-quality report presenting your findings, analysis, and recommendations. Should be suitable for delivery to the organization's leadership. Graded on diagnostic rigor, quality of recommendations, and professional presentation.

Diagnostic Assessment Practicum

Weeks 4–8 of this program use Evans Learning Labs diagnostic assessments as the data source for coaching practicum sessions. Each student will serve as both coach and client during this segment: you will complete three assessments as a client, receive coaching on your results from a practicum partner, and then coach your partner through their results.

Assessments Completed as Client

• Leadership Capability Maturity Profile – Your primary coaching case for the intake simulation in Week 5.
• Emotional Intelligence and Resilience Profile – Used for the feedback conversation practice in Week 6.
• Personal Effectiveness Index – Baseline for the goal-setting and action planning session in Week 7.

Practicum Session Structure (Weeks 5–7)

Each practicum session is 50 minutes. The coaching partner playing the coach role has access to the client's results report (shared voluntarily). Sessions are recorded for program faculty review with consent. Coaching debrief follows each session, focusing on how the coach used (or could better use) the diagnostic data to structure the conversation.

Reflection Paper (Week 8, 800 words)

Reflect on your experience as both coach and client during this segment. What did having behavioral data rather than general self-report change about the coaching conversation? Where did the data create productive tension? Where did it limit the conversation? What would you do differently with a real client?