Leadership and Teambuilding E60 4502 Spring 2012 Lynnea Brumbaugh, Ph.D.

Urbauer 104 314-374-0860 (texting accepted) Course Description

Forms of leadership and qualities of effective leaders analyzed through case studies and selfanalysis. Teamwork and effective team-building skills in engineering environments, with a focus on multidisciplinary, complex engineering projects and problem-solving.

Melissa Cochran, TA 504-952-8140

Course objectives
Successful students will
y y y

Develop their leadership potential, observing and analyzing their own behavior and developing a personal leadership development plan. Develop their ability to work effectively in teams by learning to observe and blog about their own patterns of behavior under the stress of building a project with others. Learn to analyze and appreciate a wide variety of leadership types through two teambased case analysis presentations.

Course Materials
y y y The Five Dysfunctions of a team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni What Type of Leader Are You by Ginger Lapid-Bogda 12 Hartwick Leadership Cases
y y y y y y y y y y y y Sun Tzu's Art of War Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 12 Angry Men A Jury of Her Peers Mahatma Ghandi (The literature case, not the film case) Queen Elizabeth Letters from a Birmingham Jail The Matrix The Contender A Room of One's Own Dead Poet's Society Winston Churchill

Attendance: required.

Electronics in the classroom y Emailing: not allowed. y Gaming: not allowed. y Surreptitious, urgent texting: allowed. y Taking notes on computer: allowed with permission y Looking up information to share with class: allowed You are not allowed to have any electronic device open when someone is presenting.

Grades 98-100 A+ 93-97 A 90-92 A-

88-89 B+ 83-87 B 80-82 B-

78-79 C+ 73-77 C 70-72 C-

Individual Leadership Development Plan: 300 points. Team-written Guest Blog: 300 points. Case Analysis : 300 points Attendance: 100 points

Date

Read or View before Class

Raw Data Collection for ILDP: Journaling Required

Case Analyses

1-20 1-27 2-3 2-10 2-17 2-24

5Dys: pp. 3-70 Videos of Types 9, 6, 3 WTOLAY Ch. 1 Videos of Types 1, 4, 7 5Dys: pp. 71-114 Videos of Types 2, 5, 8

WTOLAY: Ch. 2 Drive for Results Personality Type Quiz WTOLAY: Ch. 3 Strive for Self-Mastery WTOLAY: Ch. 4 Think and Act Strategically

5Dys: Part 3

Team A The Matrix Team B The Contender Team C Mahatma Ghandi Team D Letters from a Birmingham Jail Team F A Jury of Her Peers Team E 12 Angry Men

3-2 3-9 3-15 3-16 3-23 3-30

5Dys: Part 4

Team Blogs SPRING 5Dys: The Model (to end of book)

MUST BE POSTED BREAK Team A Queen Elizabeth Team B Winston Churchill Team C Sun Tzu s Art of War Team D Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Team E A Room of Own s Own Team F Dead Poet s Society

4-6

WTPLAY: Ch. 5 Become an Excellent Communicator WTOLAY: Ch. 6 Lead High-Performing Teams WTOLAY: Ch. 7 Make Optimal Decisions

4-13

4-20

WTOLAY: Ch. 8 Take Charge of Change WTOLAY: Ch. 9 Stretch Your Leadership Paradigms

4-27