Week One:

January 5

Unit One - Developing a leadership philosophy

    Learning Objectives

Ø           Appreciate the contribution made by the Classic Case and Leadership Profile toward the development of a personal philosophy of leadership

Ø           Identify effective leaders and the characteristics of leadership evidenced by these leaders

Ø           Define leadership in terms of the skills necessary for effective leadership

Ø           Identify leadership philosophies and characteristics revealed in the film and readings in this Unit

Ø           Establish the foundation for a personal leadership philosophy based on an enhanced understanding of self

    Readings

Ø           ”Thinking about Leadership,” Thomas Cronin

Ø           “Four Competencies of Great Leaders” and ”Ten Traits of Dynamic Leaders,” Warren Bennis

Ø           “Why Should Anyone Be Led By You,” Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones

Ø           “The Female Advantage,” Sally Helgesen

Ø           The Classic Case: The Philosopher King, Plato

Ø           Leadership Profile: Cleopatra from Plutarch’s lives

    Film Study

Ø           12 O’clock High

    Exercises

Ø           Type Talk

Ø           Assumptions About People

Week Two

January 12

January 19th: No class Martin Luther King Day

Participate in the Martin Luther King Day Parade for 10 bonus points

Unit Two - Articulating a vision.

Learning Objectives

Ø           Recognize specific skills and techniques used by effective leaders to affect the quality of the communication process

Ø           Evaluate objectively the effectiveness of personal communication techniques

Ø           Identify the elements of successful intergroup communication.

Ø           Consider potential strategies available to enhance communication effectiveness

Ø           Apply the skills and techniques used in effective communication

Ø           Appreciate the contrivution made by the Classic Case in this Unit toward understanding the importance of articulating a clear and strong vision

    Readings

Ø           “Enlist Others:  Attracting People to Common Purposes,” James Kouzes and Barry Posner

Ø           “Vision and Meaning:  Two Sides of the Same Coin,” James A. Vaughn

Ø           Classic Case: Henry V. William Shakespeare

Ø           Leadership Profile: Martin Luther King Jr.

Ø           Reflection: Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln

    Film Study

Ø           Dead Poet’s Society

    Exercises

Ø           Hollow Square

Week Three

January 26

Unit Three - Leading with goals

Learning Objectives

Ø           Recognize the necessity for clearly defined goals for effective leadership

Ø           Recognize the role a leader plays in setting organizational goals

Ø           Formulate goals that are appropriate for an organization

Ø           Formulate goals that translate into specific and concrete actions

Ø           Apply concepts of effective goal setting to personal, interpersonal, and career development

Readings

Ø           “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Victor Frankl

Ø           “The Power of Goals,” Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill

Ø           “Workshops Aid in Goal Setting,” William B. Werther, Jr.

Ø           Classic Case: Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Ø           Leadership Profile: Frederick Douglas

Ø           Reflection: Tell Me by Langston Hughes

    Film Study

Ø           Sister Act

    Exercises

Ø           Setting Goals for Your Community

Week Four

February 2

Unit Four - Ethics of leadership

Learning Objectives

Ø           Recognize the impact ethical behavior has on effective leadership

Ø           Define the elements of ethical leadership

Ø           Examine the nature of attitude and value acquistion

Ø           Evaluate his or her personal ethical priorities

Ø           Understand the origin of institutional ethics and the influence they exert upon the lives of people in the institution

Ø           Appreciate the contributions made by the Classic Case and Leadership Profile in this Unit toward understanding ethical leadership

    Readings

Ø           “The Wide and Easy Way,” Ronald W. Roskens

Ø           “A Leader has High Ethics:  Building Trust with Your Followers,” Shelia Murray Bethel

Ø           “Thinking Ethically:  A Framework for Moral  Decision Making,” Manuel Valasquez, Claire Andre, Thomas Shanks, S.J. Meyer, Michael J. Meyer

Ø           Class Case: Billy Budd, Herman Melville

Ø           Leadership Profile: Confucius excerpts from Analects

Ø           Reflection: Robert Coles

    Film Study

Ø           Miss Evers’ Boys

    Exercises

Ø           Whom to Choose:  Values and Group Decision Making

Week Five

February 9

Unit Five - Making decisions

Learning Objectives

Ø           Recognize the role of decision making in effective leadership

Ø           Apply the steps of the rational problem-solving process

Ø           Recognize the roles of cooperation and competition in the decision making process

Ø           Understand the impact of inference and observation in decision making

Ø           Identify effective decision making strategies

Ø           Appreciate the contrivutions made by he Classic Case and Leadership Profile in this Unit toward understanding personal responsibility for decisions

    Readings

Ø           “Shooting and Elephant,” George Orwell

Ø           “What you Don’t Know About Making Decisions,” David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto

Ø           Classic Case: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Ø           Leadership Profile: Chief Joseph

Ø           Reflection: Robert Frost

    Film Study

Ø           Twelve Angry Men

    Exercises

Ø           Lost at Sea

Ø           Leadership Insight Paper due today.

Week Six

February 16

Unit Six - Managing conflict

Learning Objectives

Ø           Recognize the importance of a leader’s role in managing conflict

Ø           Understand that confilict is an ever-present element in most organizations

Ø           Differentiate between dysfunctional and functional conflict

Ø           Identify various types of conflict

Ø           Identify practical approaches and techniques for conflict management

Ø           Appreciate the contributions made by the Classic Case and Leadership Profile in the Unit toward learning about managing conflict

    Readings

Ø           “Federalist #10,” James Madison

Ø           “Conflict,” Dennis Coon

Ø           Classic Case: The Illiad, Homer

Ø           Leadership Profile: Chimate Chumbolo

    Film Study:

     Little Women

    Exercises

Ø           Illiad skit

Week Seven

February 23

Unit Seven - Building a team

Learning Objectives

Ø           Recognize the significance of team building as a leadership skill

Ø           Recognize the role of the team in an organization

Ø           Describe several ways to improve team building

Ø           Identify foundations of effective teamwork

Ø           Appreciate the contributions made by the Classic Case and Leadership Profile in ths Unit toward understanding the teambuilding process

Readings

Ø           “Twelve Ways to Better Team Building,” Ellen Belzer

Ø           “The Secret of Great Groups,” Warren Bennis

Ø           Classic Case: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Ø           Leadership Profile: Cesar Chavez

Ø           Reflection” Te-Tao Cheng

    Film Study

Ø           Remember the Titans

    Exercises

Ø           Intergroup Model Building:  A Lego Creature

Week Eight

March 1

Unit Eight - Empowering groups

Learning Objectives

Ø           Distinguish between transactional and transformational leadership

Ø           Understand the relationship between power, delegation, and empowerment of subordinates

Ø           Define the principles of empowerment necessary to be effective as a leader

Ø           Recognize the benefits of effective empowerment

Ø           Understand ‘emotional intelligence’ and the correlation of it to empowering others

Ø           Appreciate the contributions made by the Classic Case and Leadership Profile in this Unit toward understanding delegation and empowerment

    Readings

Ø           “Leadership as Empowering Others,” W. Warner Burke

Ø           “From Transaction to Transformational Leadership:  Learning to Share the Vision,” Bernard M. Bass

Ø           “The End of Leadership:  Exemplary Leadership is Impossible Without Full Inclusion Initiatives, and Cooperation of Followers,” Warren Bennis

Ø           “Leadership That Gets Results,” Daniel Goleman

Ø           Classic Case: Antigone, Sophocles

Ø           Leadership Profile: Nelson Mandela

    Film Study

Ø           Norma Rae

    Exercises

Ø           Shaping the Future

Week Nine

March 8

Unit Nine - Initiating change

Learning Objectives

Ø           Recognize the importance of initiating and managing change as a leadership skill

Ø           Identify positive and negative effects of change within an organization, group, community, or institution

Ø           Describe the leader’s role to affect change within his/her organization

Ø           Evaluate personal readiness to respond to change, and/or adapt to change as a leader

Ø           Discuss ways to overcome resistance to change

Ø           Appreciate the contributions made by the Classic Case and Leadership Profile in this Unit toward understanding the challenge of initiating change in an organization, group, community, or institution

    Readings

Ø           “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ø           “Choosing Strategies for Change,” John P. Kotter and Leonard A. Schlesinger

Ø           “Dealing With Resistance to Change,” Joseph and Bettie Stanislao

Ø           Classic Case: Allegory of the Cave, Plato

Ø           Leadership Profile: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

    Film Study

Ø           Schindler’s List

    Exercises

Ø           Space Jam

Week Ten

March 16

Final paper due this week

Unit Ten - Leading by serving

Learning Objectives

Ø           Recognize the need for servant leaders in any organization.  Recognize the significance of team building as a leadership skill

Ø           Understand the qualities that servant leaders possess

Ø           Examine the role of individual initiative for combatting evil and spreading good in the world

Ø           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

Ø           Recognize the benefits of volunteering or serving others

Ø           Appreciate the contributions made by the Classic Case and the Leadership Profile in the Unit toward understanding the concept and importance of servant-leadership

    Readings

Ø           “The Servant as Leader,” Robert K. Greenleaf

Ø           “Becoming a Servant-Leader:  The Personal Development Path,” Isabel O. Lopez

Ø           “Servant Leadership,” Robin T. Wilson

Ø           Classic Case: Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse

Ø           Leadership Profile: Harriet Tubman

    Film Study

Ø           Gandhi

    Exercises

Ø           Leadership in Flight