Fall 2003/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.
RELEVANCE FOR MINISTRY:
- Using the reading list, personality assessment inventories, case
studies and movies, small group work, 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:
- De Pree, Max. Leadership is an Art. Michigan State University Press,
1987.
- Hagberg, Janet O. Real Power. Revised edition. Sheffield Publishing
Co., 1994.
- Hunter, James C. The Servant. Prima, 1998.
- Nouwen, Henri. In the Name of Jesus. Crossroad, 1989.
- Quinn, Robert E. Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within.
Jossey-Bass, 1996.
- The following personality inventories:
- Myers-Briggs Test, Form G, published by NBTI.
- Janet Hagberg Personal Power Profile, published by Personal Power
Product.
- Hersey/ Blanchard Lead Self Test, published by Human Resource
Development.
RECOMMENDED READING:
- Covey, Stephen. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
Simon & Schuster, 1989.
- Kouzes, James and Barry Posner. The Leadership Challenge. Revised
edition. Jossey-Bass, 1995.
ASSIGNMENTS:
- A two-page critical and personal response for each book is due at
the appropriate course session. A twenty-page paper focusing on the student's
personal mission statement, self-audit and autobiography, as well as a
philosophy/theology of leadership will be required. Please see course syllabus
for details.
PREREQUISITES:
- None.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM:
- Meets M.A. in Theology (General Format) requirement in Ministry
Foundation (MIN F).
FINAL EXAMINATION:
- None.