BA 352 LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNICATION

RON BRAMHALL

What is good leadership? What is effective professional communication?

At your table, introduce yourself: Name Concentration/major Standing (soph, junior, senior)

Imagine that you are a new employee of this consulting rm and I have selected you to be on a project team. As your supervisor, what do I expect of you? What does leadership mean in that context?

Did Alice Coles demonstrate good leadership? Why or why not?

What did Alice Coles do specically that demonstrates good leadership?

What is good leadership? Leadership that is both effective and authentic or moral. In fact, leadership works, in large part, because it is authentic or moral.

Make a difference

How will you make a difference?

Making a difference
Communication and interpersonal skills Ability to work well within a team Personal ethics and integrity Analytical and problem-solving skills
Wall Street Journal article (Sept. 20, 2006) attributes that recruiters of MBA students nd most valuable in potential employees

Making a difference
Personal development: knowing yourself and growing deliberately Leadership: making a difference through relationships Communication skills: getting people to understand, believe, care, and act Teamwork: achieving more together than the best individual alone

Leadership development is a process of:

Self-awareness - making meaning from your experience through reection and feedback Understanding - knowing what works and what doesnt Willingness - to change and try new things Action - taking specic actions to grow

We will engage in this process through project-based learning

Real Problem, Real World - provides relevance, exigency and ambiguity Effective - Leadership and communication cant be developed by reading a text book Practical - experiencing what works and what doesnt Applicable - Employers care about what you can do more than what you know

Learning Process
Concepts Experience

Feedback

Apply Generalize

Reect

Success in this course depends on your willingness to:

open your mind to new possibilities and ideas be willing to critically analyze what you believe and think you know

In short, stop thinking like a student, and risks be willing to like a start thinking take personal professional. step out of your comfort zone
give and receive honest feedback be willing to accept mistakes and learn from them

Leadership is an inside-out job

Challenge the Process

Encourage the Heart

EI

Inspire a Shared Vision

Enable Others to Act

Model the Way

What does Lorraine Kerwoods story have to tell us about leadership?

What are the keys to her success?

Complete Student Information Form by Noon on Tuesday. Read syllabus thoroughly and note questions

To Do

Read: We Googled You and the Writing Assignment #1 Instructions for that case. Bring a copy of each to class. Create Personal Website on wordpress.com and send link to Ron Subscribe to http://bramhalluo.wordpress.com Sign-up for Resume Workshop by Wednesday (link on Course website)