PART I INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS

January 8 The Methodology of the Class
• Course objectives
• A review of the syllabus
• Define Leadership
Assignment: Turn in Student Questionnaire, Leadership Development Worksheet
(Each assignment due on the date under which it is listed)

January 10 Introduction to Leadership
• Authority v. Leadership
• Management v. Leadership
• Leaders and Followers
• Trait v. Skills
Assignment: Northouse, pp.1-26.

January 15 Leadership Theories
• Processes-Transformational, Ethical, Collaborative Leadership
• Context-Organizational, Global/Intercultural, Situational Leadership
Assignment: Northouse, 39-56.

PART II ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP

January 17 Possible Forms of Organizational Leadership
• Alternative sources of leadership vision
• Frames of leadership-structural, human resource, political, symbolic leadership
• Team Framing Exercise
Assignment: Handout on Bolman and Deal.

January 22 Organizational Response to Crisis
• The responsibility of leaders in a crisis
• How to prevent, assess, or learn from a leadership failure
• Team Crisis Exercise
Assignment: Norman R. Augustine, "Managing the Crisis You Tried to Prevent" Harvard Business Review (Sept./Oct. 1995).

January 24 DISC Personal Assessment Test/Discussion/Activity
This is an assessment test to help you assess yourself and your teammates.
Assignment: Take DISC Test and bring to class.
TURN IN Leadership Skills Development Worksheet to Dr. Thompson

January 29 Team Assignment Day
Team Formation Activities-Topic Selection
Work on Tuckman Model of Teamwork
Assignment: Tuckman Model

January 31 Dr. Lawrence James, Professor of Psychology, "Toxic Leadership"
• The sources of leadership failure
• Locating and assessing toxic leadership
• How to deal with toxic leadership
Assignment: None

February 5 Jim Satterfield, President Firestorm Solutions-Crisis Leadership Expert
E-MAIL PROPSED CAPSTONE TOPIC TO ME

February 7 Gender, Diversity and Leadership
Assignment: Northouse, pp. 265-283

PART III TEAMWORK AND LEADERSHIP

February 12 Teamwork Processes
• Study of task, team maintenance, and blocking roles in teams\
• In class teamwork activity

Assignment: Northouse, 207-208, 217-22. Read handout on Teamwork roles. If time permits, in class, one team will be given an assignment and another will analyze that team recording examples of task, people, and blocking roles. Then they will discuss the results with the class as a whole.

February 14 Conflict Resolution
• Method for Conflict Resolution
• Conflict Resolution in Business, Government, etc.
Assignment: VOMP Handout

February 19 Capstone Research with Cathy Carpenter, Public Policy Research Librarian

February 21 Exam-Leadership Theory and Organizational Leadership

February 26 Thinking Out of the Box-Creativity and Leadership (Ryan Gravel and the Beltline)

PART IV GLOBAL LEADERSHIP

February 28 Cultures and Global Organizations
• Defining of Culture
• American Cultural Assumptions
• Global Realities
• Iceberg Exercise
Assignment: Northouse, pp.301-305; Handout- "What the World Would Look Like if..." and
"The Values Americans Live By?"
TAs return first evaluations to students

March 4 How Are We Similar to and Different From Other Cultures?
• Globe Study Variable Attributes of Culture-assertiveness orientation, uncertainty
avoidance, future orientation, performance orientation, power distance, etc.
• Leadership Behaviors and Cultural Clusters
• Universally Desirable and Undesirable Traits
Assignment: Northouse, pp. 305-326

March 6 Global Leadership: Tom Minnich and Developing a Business Project in Hong Kong

March 11 Global Teleconference on Leadership with French Students

V. ETHICAL LEADERSHIP

March 13 What Does Ethics Have to Do With Leadership?
• The relationship of ethics and leadership
• Ethical Leadership Overview
Assignment: Plato, "The Ring of Gyges"; Northouse, pp. 341-358.

March 17-21 Spring Break

March 25 Ethics as Utility (Mill) or Duty (Kant) or Virtue (Aristotle)
• The role of social utility in leadership decisions
• Duty and reason and a universal ethical principle
• Virtue and the formation of the moral agent
Assignment: Handout.

March 27 The Moral Reasoning Method (Rachel)
• Four Step Moral Reasoning Method (MRM)- Issues, facts, moral criteria, possible solutions
• Class Exercise
Assignment: MRM Handout

April 1 The Servant Leader (Darryl)
• Types of Ethical Leadership-Trait, Style, Contingency Theory
• Leadership as Service
Assignment: Handout: Greenleaf, "Ten Characteristics of a Servant Leader".
HAND IN OUTLINE OF CAPSTONE PAPER

April 3 Service and Leadership

April 8 Ethics/Global Exam

PART VI COMMUNICATION SKILLS

April 10 Argument and Persuasion
• Proposition, premise, and conclusion
• Logic and persuasion
• Fallacies in argumentation
Assignment: Review Hand Out.

April 15 Large Group Presentations
This class will focus on the following elements of public speaking:
• Informational or Persuasive-Types of evidence, forms of presentation
• Substantive Organization-Problem Recognition, Problem Analysis and Problem Resolution
• Audience- Types of evidence- scientific/research, anecdotal, metrics, language, humor, references, dress, use of media-powerpoint.
• Audience Response Recognition-body language and behavior
• Message presentation-style/pace/voice modulation/eye contact/movement,etc.

Assignment: Review Handout-Tips for Public Seaking.
(E-mail Capstone papers to Dr. Thompson)

PART VII CAPSTONE PRESENTATIONS

April 17 Class Presentation

April 22 (11:00-12:00) Lunch at Junior's (Optional)

April 22 Class Presentation

April 24 Class Presentation

May 2 Leadership Lab and Obituary Due