COURSE SCHEDULE
Unit One - Developing a leadership
philosophy
Focus: Discuss Leadership Styles
Learning Objectives
· Profile toward the development of a personal philosophy of leadership
· Identify effective leaders and the characteristics of leadership evidenced by
· these leaders
· Define leadership in terms of the skills necessary for effective leadership
· Identify leadership philosophies and characteristics revealed in the film and
· readings
· Establish the foundation for a personal leadership philosophy based on an
· enhanced understanding of self
Readings
· ”Thinking about Leadership,” Thomas Cronin
· “Four Competencies of Great Leaders” and ”Ten Traits of Dynamic
· Leaders,” Warren Bennis
· “Why Should Anyone Be Led By You,” Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones
· “The Female Advantage,” Sally Helgesen
The Classic Case: The Philosopher
King, Plato
Leadership Profile: Cleopatra from
Plutarch’s lives
Film Study
12 O’clock High
Exercises
Type Talk
Assumptions About People
Unit Two - Articulating a vision.
Focus: 1) Define vision, 2) Discuss
communication strategies.
Learning Objectives
· Recognize specific skills and techniques used by effective leaders to affect
· the quality of the communication process
· Evaluate objectively the effectiveness of personal communication
· techniques
· Identify the elements of successful intergroup communication.
· Consider potential strategies available to enhance communication
· effectiveness
· Apply the skills and techniques used in effective communication
· Understand the importance of articulating a clear and strong vision
Readings
“Enlist Others: Attracting
People to Common Purposes,” James Kouzes
and Barry Posner
“Vision and Meaning:
Two Sides of the Same Coin,” James A. Vaughn
Classic Case: Henry V. William Shakespeare
Leadership Profile: Martin Luther
King Jr.
Reflection: “Gettysburg Address”:
Abraham Lincoln
Film Study
Dead Poet’s Society
Exercises/Activities
Hollow Square
Unit Three - Leading with goals
Focus: Goal setting
Learning Objectives
· Recognize the necessity for clearly defined goals for effective leadership
· Recognize the role a leader plays in setting organizational goals
· Formulate goals that are appropriate for an organization
· Formulate goals that translate into specific and concrete actions
· Apply concepts of effective goal setting to personal, interpersonal, and
· career development
Readings
“Man’s Search
for Meaning,” Victor Frankl
“The Power of Goals,”
Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R.
Merrill
“Workshops Aid in
Goal Setting,” William B. Werther, Jr.
Classic Case: Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Leadership Profile: Frederick Douglas
Reflection: Tell Me by Langston Hughes
Film Study
Sister Act
Exercises
Setting Goals for Your Community
Unit Four - Ethics of leadership
Focus: Values, attitudes, and ethical
priorities
Learning Objectives
· Recognize the impact ethical behavior has on effective leadership
· Define the elements of ethical leadership
· Examine the nature of attitude and value acquistion
· Evaluate his or her personal ethical priorities
· Understand the origin of institutional ethics and the influence they exert
· upon the lives of people in the institution
· Understand ethical leadership
Readings
“The Wide and Easy
Way,” Ronald W. Roskens
“A Leader has High
Ethics: Building Trust with Your Followers,” Shelia
Murray Bethel
“Thinking Ethically:
A Framework for Moral Decision Making,” Manuel
Valasquez, Claire Andre,
Thomas Shanks, S.J. Meyer, Michael J. Meyer
Class Case: “Billy Budd,”
Herman Melville
Leadership Profile: Confucius excerpts
from Analects
Reflection: Robert Coles
Film Study
Miss Evers’ Boys
Exercises
Whom to Choose: Values and
Group Decision Making
Unit Five - Making decisions
Focus: 1)Rational problem-solving
process, 2) Inference and observation
Learning Objectives
· Recognize the role of decision making in effective leadership
· Apply the steps of the rational problem-solving process
· Recognize the roles of cooperation and competition in the decision making
· process
· Understand the impact of inference and observation in decision making
· Identify effective decision making strategies
· Understand personal responsibility for decisions
Readings
“Shooting an Elephant,”
George Orwell
“What you Don’t
Know About Making Decisions,” David A. Garvin and
Michael A. Roberto
Classic Case: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Leadership Profile: Chief Joseph
Reflection: Robert Frost
Film Study
Twelve Angry Men
Exercises
Lost at Sea
Unit Six - Managing conflict
Focus:1) Stimulating versus reducing
conflict, 2) Positive conflict
Learning Objectives
· Recognize the importance of a leader’s role in managing conflict
· Understand that conflict is an ever-present element in most organizations
· Differentiate between dysfunctional and functional conflict
· Identify various types of conflict
· Identify practical approaches and techniques for conflict management
· Learn about managing conflict
Readings
“Federalist #10,”
James Madison
“Conflict,”
Dennis Coon
Classic Case: The Illiad, Homer
Leadership Profile: Chimate Chumbolo
Film Study:
Little Women
Exercises
Iliad skit
Unit Seven - Building a team
Focus: 1) Collaborating and working
together, 2) Ways to destroy teamwork
Learning Objectives
· Recognize the significance of team building as a leadership skill
· Recognize the role of the team in an organization
· Describe several ways to improve team building
· Identify foundations of effective teamwork
· Understand the teambuilding process
Readings
“Twelve Ways to Better
Team Building,” Ellen Belzer
“The Secret of Great
Groups,” Warren Bennis
Classic Case: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Leadership Profile: Cesar Chavez
Reflection” Te-Tao Cheng
Film Study
Remember the Titans
Exercises
Intergroup Model Building:
A Lego Creature
Unit Eight - Empowering groups
Focus: Types of group leadership
Learning Objectives
· Distinguish between transactional and transformational leadership
· Understand the relationship between power, delegation, and empowerment
· of subordinates
· Define the principles of empowerment necessary to be effective as a leader
· Recognize the benefits of effective empowerment
· Understand ‘emotional intelligence’ and the correlation of it to empowering
· others
· Understand the importance of and methods of delegation and empowerment
Readings
“Leadership as Empowering
Others,” W. Warner Burke
“From Transaction
to Transformational Leadership: Learning to Share the
Vision,” Bernard M.
Bass
“The End of Leadership:
Exemplary Leadership is Impossible Without Full
Inclusion Initiatives, and
Cooperation of Followers,” Warren Bennis
“Leadership That Gets
Results,” Daniel Goleman
Classic Case: Antigone, Sophocles
Leadership Profile: Nelson Mandela
Film Study
Norma Rae
Exercises
Shaping the Future
Unit Nine - Initiating change
Focus—Dealing with resistance
to change
Learning Objectives
· Recognize the importance of initiating and managing change as a leadership
· skill
· Identify positive and negative effects of change within an organization,
· group, community, or institution
· Describe the leader’s role to affect change within his/her organization
· Evaluate personal readiness to respond to change, and/or adapt to change as
· a leader
· Discuss ways to overcome resistance to change
· Understand the challenge of initiating change in an organization, group, community, or institution
Readings
“Letter from Birmingham
Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Choosing Strategies
for Change,” John P. Kotter and Leonard A.
Schlesinger
“Dealing With Resistance
to Change,” Joseph and Bettie Stanislao
Classic Case: Allegory of the Cave, Plato
Leadership Profile: Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Film Study
Schindler’s List
Exercises/Activities
Space Jam
Unit Ten - Leading by serving
Focus—Servant leadership
Learning Objectives
· Recognize the need for servant leaders in any organization. Recognize the
· significance of team building as a leadership skill
· Understand the qualities that servant leaders possess
· Examine the role of individual initiative for combatting evil and spreading good in the world
· Discover the need for individual voluntarism and the inherent weaknesses
· that exist in allowing governments to do for people what other people
· should be doing
· Recognize the benefits of volunteering or serving others
· Understand the concept and importance of servant-leadership
Readings
“The Servant as Leader,”
Robert K. Greenleaf
“Becoming a Servant-Leader:
The Personal Development Path,” Isabel O.
Lopez
“Servant Leadership,”
Robin T. Wilson
Classic Case: Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
Leadership Profile: Harriet Tubman
Film Study
Gandhi
Exercises
Leadership in Flight
Note: As becomes necessary, some
substitutions may be made in readings, film studies, and exercises/activities. Additionally,
speakers will be scheduled in throughout the semester as speaker schedules permit.