Promise of the Course: A Foundation for Having A Great Life

Invite sharing on what a great life looks like (to them – don’t comment)

Introduce some basics for the Course to work for them:

• • Knowing vs discovering
  • The course works if you draw it to you; if you engage

Establish some relatedness by having each student say a few things about themselves (introductions including name, where from, major, etc.)

Organizational aspects of the course (syllabus, assignments, grading, etc.)

• • Reading the Slides
  • (Slides 13 & 14 in LS 1 Already-Always Listening Deck deal with reading slides out loud)
  • Promises, Conditions, Rules of Game (should appear in course syllabus)
  • Set up Groups for students to work in throughout Course

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

• • Provide students with “a what, by when and where to send’ Reflections
  • Promise students “by when” you will respond to their Reflections
  • Suggested topic for 1^st Reflections: What does a great life look like to you?

Assignment: have them notice how they listen to people they “like” vs. People who “bug them”

DOWNLOADS:

• FILES FOR ALL SESSIONS:
  • 15 Week Model of the Leadership Series
  • All FIles for 15 Week Leadership Series (Zipped Folder)

• FILES FOR SESSION 1:
  • 15 wk LS1 Already-Always Listening Slide Deck
  • 15 wk LS1 Timing Plan

Sharing from last week (probably minimal)

Already-Always Listening Slide Deck (use LS 1 Already-Always Listening & LS 1 Timing Plan here)

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

• FILES  FOR  SESSION 2:
  • 15 wk LS1 Already-Always Listening Slide Deck
  • 15 wk LS1 Timing Plan

Sharing from Already-Always Listening

Already-Always Listening is a Context and when A-A-Listening, we are used by a Context

Authentic Listening (use LS 2 Authentic Listening & LS 2 Timing Plan here)

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

• FILES FOR SESSION 3:
  • 15 wk LS2 Authentic Listening
  • 15 wk LS2 Timing Plan

Sharing from Authentic Listening

Speech Acts (use LS 3 Speech Acts & LS 3 Timing Plan here)

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Assign Pre-Classroom Reading #4 (the Rotman interview with Michael Jensen on Integrity)

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

• FILES FOR SESSION 4:
  • 15 wk LS3 Speech Acts
  • 15 wk LS3 Timing Plan
  • Rotman Integrity Interview Pre-Classroom Reading #4

Sharing from Speech Acts

Integrity – Model of Integrity; Definitions of Word: and Honoring Your Word

(use Slides 1 through 21 of LS 4 Integrity Slide Deck here & stop at Factors Contributing and see LS 4 Timing Plan)

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

• FILES FOR SESSION 5:
  • 15 wk LS4 Integrity
  • 15 wk LS4 Timing Plan

Sharing from Integrity, Part 1

Factors Contributing to the Veil of Invisibility (Integrity, Part 2)

(use Slides 21 – 50 of LS 4 Integrity Slide Deck and LS 4 Timing Plan)

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

Assign each student to restore their integrity with at least one person or one group of people this week.  Let them know they will be asked to share a specific out of integrity behavior and what they did to “clean up the mess” it created.

• FILES FOR SESSION 6:
  • 15 wk LS4 Integrity
  • 15 wk LS4 Timing Plan

Sharing from Student Assignment

Where is Your Word When IT Comes Time to Keep Your Word? (use LS 5 Where is Your Word Slide Deck and LS 5 Timing Plan)

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

Alternative:  Since it’s close to middle of term, one could give a midterm assignment here or midterm assessment, which could be written or verbally presented in Week 8.

• FILES FOR SESSION 7:
  • 15 wk LS5 Where is Your Word
  • 15 wk LS5 Timing Plan

Sharing on anything that has opened up in the Course so far

Instructor could bring instances of Integrity or lack thereof related to the professor’s area of discipline (news articles, business journals, etc.)   Reminder: carefully select material that will support the Model of Integrity used in the Leadership Course and relate the Model of Integrity to the “real world”.

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

Sharing on anything that has opened up in the Course so far

Authenticity (use LS 6 Authenticity Slide Deck and LS 6 Timing Plan here)

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Assign each student to practice being authentic about their inauthenticities. Have them be authentic about at least 3 inauthenticities with another human being (with whom they’re being inauthentic) Come back ready to share the one that most surprised them.

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

• FILES FOR SESSION 9:
  • 15 wk LS6 Authenticity
  • 15 wk LS6 Timing Plan

Have each student share at least one exchange with another human being in which they were authentic about their inauthenticities.   Invite them to share what that looked like in the doing of it.

Deepen the discovery of “the road to authenticity is through our inauthenticities”

Assignment: Weekly Reflections

Assignment: Have each student inquire into what their schooling is about, what their (anticipated) career is about, and what their relationships are about.   Let them know that each of them will be asked to share what has opened up in at least one of these areas in the next class.

Sharing on what has opened up regarding their schooling, their (anticipated) career, and/or their relationships.

Being Given Being and Action by Something Bigger Than …

(use LS 7 Something Bigger Slide Deck and LS 7 Timing Plan here)

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Assignment:  Have each student continue to look at what their life has been about, and what it is about.

• FILES FOR SESSION 11:
  • 15 wk LS7 Something Bigger
  • 15 wk LS7 Timing Plan

Sharing from Being Given Being and Action by Something Bigger Than Yourself

Instructor could bring instances of Being Given Being and Action By Something Bigger Than You or lack thereof related to the professor’s area of discipline (news articles, business journals, etc.)   Reminder: carefully select material that will support the Model of Integrity used in the Leadership Course and relate the Model of Integrity to the “real world”.

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Being cause-In the Matter (use Slides 1 – 18 from LS 8 Slide Deck and LS 8 Timing Plan)

What are the Conditions You Are Dealing With?  How are you relating to those Conditions?

What would it look like to be cause in the matter of that condition?

• FILES FOR SESSION 13:
  • 15 wk LS8 Cause-in-the-Matter and Completion
  • 15 wk LS8 Timing Plan

Sharing from Being Cause in the matter

Where in your life do you experience a lack of power?

Break Out Groups During Session or Offline Group Assignments at End of Session

Second Half of Class: The Foundation for Having a Great Life Provides One with Power

(use Slides 19 – 30 from LS 8 Slide Deck and LS 8 Timing Plan)

Note: You may want to adjust final/completion slides to more accurately reflect your course or possibly to set up time for a final exercise on Week 15)

Assign students to look at that area of their life where they said (before that they lack power.  What do they now see about that area of their life?

• FILES FOR SESSION 14:
  • 15 wk LS8 Cause-in-the-Matter and Completion
  • 15 wk LS8 Timing Plan

Final: have each student offer a presentation to the whole group on one of the major topics presented in the Course (Four factors, Authentic Listening, Speech Acts, etc.) that made the most difference for them.

Note: depending on class size, you may need to have some reports in Week 14