Developing Leadership Skills: Fulbright Gateway Orientation

at the University at Albany 2011August 10, 2011

Billie Franchini, Ph.D.Assistant Director

Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership

University at Albany

Good morning!

What we will be doing today

Consider six key leadership principles Communicating Collaborating Decision-making Debating Compromising Courage

Translate these principles into productive behaviors for managing team tasks effectively

Get into Teams

Line up on the left side of the room and count off to 6

Your number is your Team Number Find your team’s table and introduce

yourself to your team members if you don’t know each other already

Each team should have

An envelope with a leadership principle written on the outside

Five index cards with your team number on them

Round 1

In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings. Example: The principle is communicating. If you

are working on a team project, what can you do to ensure or facilitate communication?

List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.

You have 5 minutes to complete this task.

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Round 1 is Over

Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table on your right.

DO NOT read the response cards in the envelope you receive.

Make sure you have received an envelope with a new principle (i.e., one you haven’t already discussed).

Round 2

In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings.

List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.

You have 4 minutes to complete this task.

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Time’s Up!

Round 2 is Over

Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table on your right.

DO NOT read the response cards in the envelope you receive.

Make sure you have received an envelope with a new principle (i.e., one you haven’t already discussed).

Round 3

In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings.

List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.

You have 4 minutes to complete this task.

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Time’s Up!

Round 3 is Over

Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table on your right.

DO NOT read the response cards in the envelope you receive.

Make sure you have received an envelope with a new principle (i.e., one you haven’t already discussed).

Round 4

In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings.

List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.

You have 4 minutes to complete this task.

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Time’s Up!

Round 4 is Over

Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table on your right.

DO NOT read the response cards in the envelope you receive.

Make sure you have received an envelope with a new principle (i.e., one you haven’t already discussed).

Round 5

In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings.

List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.

You have 4 minutes to complete this task.

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Time’s Up!

Round 5 is Over

Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table to your right.

NOW you can read the response cards in the envelope you receive.

Evaluation Round

As a team, evaluate the four response cards inside the envelope.

You have 100 points to distribute among the five response cards to indicate each card’s relative merit. Assign points to each card.

You have 15 minutes to complete this task.

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Time’s Up!

Each team choose a representative to bring scored cards to the front and pick up your team’s scored cards (there should be four cards total)

Add the scores on your cards: this is your final score

Scores

Team 1: Team 2: Team 3: Team 4: Team 5: Team 6:

Debrief

Let’s discuss your experience

Take-aways

Good leadership means knowing when and how to apply all of the six

principles knowing which principles apply in a given

situation knowing when to take on a leadership role knowing how to resolve conflict and

effectively manage differences of opinion helping your team work to get the job done!

Thank you!