Course
Description

This class guides you through an exploration of leadership style that is designed to help you transform your leadership style by enhancing your emotional intelligence, managerial skills and communication.  Through a variety of rich developmental experiences (individual leadership and emotional intelligence assessments, book analysis, interviews, reflection and synthesis) you are provided assessment, challenge, and growth for transforming leadership with emotional intelligence.

Methods of Course Instruction

This course utilizes the Ohio University Blackboard (Bb) for discussing course materials, completing projects, and posting assignments. Some browsers are not compatible with Blackboard. Firefox browser may be downloaded free from the internet if this browser works best for you. You are responsible for checking Bb daily for announcements. Unless otherwise directed, all course deliverables are to be completed on Bb by either responding to a discussion prompt or by posting Word files to the requested database. Each member of this community is expected to contribute to all online assigned discussions.

Turnitin.com.
You are required to submit designated assignments to <http://www.turnitin.com/>. If you are not already registered with Turnitin, please register with this website by the first day of class. To do so, at the welcome page, click on "Create a new user profile," then follow the step-by-step instructions. Here are the course number and password:

Class Number: 2057725   
Password:  gobobcats

Postings to turnitin.com may not retain your formatting. This is not a problem because your work is graded from your Bb postings. Turnitin.com compares your work with other students' work as well as Internet content and provides a report of any suspected plagiarism. Plagiarism results in a zero grade for this course and referral to OU Judiciaries. When an assignment has a turnitin.com designation, it must be posted to turnitin.com and posted to Bb, in order to receive credit for the assignment.  

Student Learning Objectives

After completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Read, summarize, analyze, and synthesize materials by contributing to online discussions and by writing effective papers, essays, discussions, and reports.

• Understand major concepts of leadership, based upon the Kouzes and Posner leadership model and other models of leadership.

• Understand major concepts of emotional intelligence.

• Gauge individual leadership and emotional intelligence strengths and weaknesses, based upon a 360-degree Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) and an EI self assessment.

• Value diversity among individuals and along multi-faceted dimensions.

• Discuss ethics, values, social responsibility, and other topics as effective leadership practices.

• Enhance personal leadership and team skills, such as challenging the process, communicating a vision, enabling others to act, modeling the way, conflict management, team facilitation, and negotiation.

• Reflect on the course activities and theories, integrating the principles in a report that provides synthesis of management and interpersonal communication in transforming leadership through emotional intelligence.

1. Reading Responses 

2. Questions of the Week Leadership and EI

3. Assessment Paper*  

4. Freidman's GenCorp Case Analysis*

5. Leader Interview*  

6. Humanmetrics Jung Typology Discussion

7. Movie Analysis and Synthesis

8. Organization Action Plan* 

9. Ethics Essay*

10. Final:  Leadership Research and Synthesis Report*     

Materials

Required

Komives, S. R., Lucas, N., & McMahon, T. R. (1998). Exploring leadership. CA: Jossey-Bass,
ISBN: 0-7879-0929-7

Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (1998). Student leadership practices inventory. CA: Jossey-Bass,
ISBN: 0-7879-4425-4

(1) Student Leadership Practices Inventory-Self, ISBN: 0-7879-4426-2

(5) Student Leadership Practices Inventory-Observer, ISBN: 0-7879-4427-0

Weisinger, H. (1998). Emotional intelligence at work. CA: Jossey-Bass, ISBN: 0-7879-0952-1

Additional or Optional Materials
Some resource articles that you can use as additional references in your writings are available in Bb External Links and Bb Course Readings.


Note: The books for the course are in stock at Available at the Specialty Books in Athens