Fall 2006/Pasadena
GM550
Lattore

GM550: LEADERSHIP AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. Patrick Lattore.

DESCRIPTION: This course will increase personal and professional effectiveness by focussing on leadership and character in new and interesting ways. We will consider the idea that personal influence in our multiple service roles (counseling, parenting, pastoring, teaching, missions, and managing) comes from personal credibility and communal alignments. Participants will look at dimensions of leadership including spirituality, character, emotional intelligence, community, culture, and organizational context, as well as effective styles of leadership. All of these topics will focus upon the person as leader and the organizational structure that supports his/her leadership. This course is about building leadership competence through personal change and leading organizational structures to health and vision.

COURSE OBJECTIVES/LEARNING OUTCOMES: As a result of this course, students will

understand clearly the nature of Christian leadership;
gain a conceptual framework for developing leadership skills;
heighten their awareness of leadership practices and behaviors;
be challenged to seek God's leading in terms of their own stories and leadership;
experience a community of learners while coming to understand its place in leadership development and practice.

RELEVANCE FOR MINISTRY: Using the reading list, personality assessment inventories, case studies, movies, small group work, and interactions with the instructor and peers, students will be challenged to explore their leadership assumptions in life-changing ways. This course will provide a foundation for understanding leadership and its effect on ministry development, counseling relationships, cultural competence, and service. It is especially structured to be helpful to students in psychology, world missions, and theology as a cross fertilization of ministry preparation.

COURSE FORMAT: The course will meet weekly for a three and a half hour session.

REQUIRED READING: A two-page reaction paper will be submitted on each of the books listed below:

: Arbinger Institute. Leadership and Self-Deception. Arbinger Institute, 2002.; Hagberg, Janet O. Real Power. Revised edition. Sheffield Publishing, 1994.; Hunter, James C. The Servant. Prima, 1998.; Kouzes, James M., and Barry Z. Posner, eds. Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge. Jossey-Bass, 2004.; Lencioni, Patrick. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. JosseyBass, 2002.; Nouwen, Henri. In the Name of Jesus. Crossroad, 1989.

: The following personality inventories:

: Myers-Briggs Test, Form Q, published by NBTI.; Janet Hagberg Personal Power Profile, published by Personal Power Product.; Hersey/Blanchard Lead Self Test, published by Human Resource Development.