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.