SEMESTER: Fall 2019

COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA291C-11

COURSE TITLE: ACTIVE COMMUNICATING--THE LEADER ON STAGE

UNITS OF CREDIT: 1

INSTRUCTOR: Doy Charnsupharindr (doy@berkeley.edu)

MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Sunday 9/15 and Sunday 9/29 from 9AM to 6PM.

Please note the experiential learning approach and participatory nature of this course, which meets all day on 2 Sundays. To earn a passing grade, you must attend BOTH class sessions in their entirety.

PREREQUISITE: EWMBA 200C: Leadership Communications

CAREER FIELD: This is an advanced leadership communications course. It is ideal for anyone looking to develop their leadership presence, communication skills, and public speaking skills. It is also helpful for anyone in a people leadership or team management role, as the experiential exercises and class concepts explore how to collaborate successfully while building trust and teamwork.

CLASS FORMAT: Experiential, engaging and highly interactive learning through class discussions and exercises. Students will practice public speaking and delivering impactful presentations in different formats and receive in-the-moment feedback and coaching. In-class exercises include individual, partner work, and group work.

REQUIRED READINGS: Specific short reading assignments will be distributed in-class or via bCourses.

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE:
Course Requirements:

Attendance during all hours of the course.
Participation in a coaching session between the first and second class.
Delivering in-class presentations
Submitting 2 written assignments

Grading Criteria:

45% In-class Exercises;
20% Class Attendance and Participation;
10% Coaching Session (between class 1 & class 2)
25% Written Assignments;

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
When an authentic and inspirational leader steps on stage, they motivate, inspire and connect to the minds and hearts of their audience. They demonstrate the five powers of leadership: presence, communication, conviction, intention and knowledge. Similarly, when a great actor steps on stage, they captivate and move their audience. They connect authentically to the role they are portraying. They feel every line, every word they are speaking. Both the inspirational leader and the actor need to have a deep knowledge and understanding of the message they are sharing with their audience. Furthermore, they need creativity to bring “magic” into the room.

In a theatre ensemble, leaders can also find examples of leadership practices to build trust, collaboration. They understand that, in order to be successful, a leader’s job is to enable everyone on stage to be able to perform at their highest level. Even the preparation process requires teamwork and collaboration. Through the class exercises, students get a chance to develop their own preparation process for themselves as well as when they need to collaborate with others.

This advanced leadership course focuses on the skillset that enables a leader to play the various roles necessary to lead and inspire others. Through the experiential exercises, students will understand the benefits and applicability of the actor's discipline to professional communication needs and the expression of one’s own creativity to become an inspirational leader. The course builds on the basic building blocks of effective communication introduced in EWMBA200c, drawing from the skills and discipline of the actors. These skills include energy, spontaneity, vocal variety, listening, awareness and communicating with presence. By drawing on these skills as well as working with scenes (in order to bring language alive), class participants will have the opportunity to break out of the box, unleash their passion, develop their authentic voice and utilize the power of intention through performance.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

To become a leader on stage who is capable of playing the leading role and being part of the ensemble.
To learn and practice the self-preparation process in order to be exceptional as an authentic and inspirational leader.
To stretch beyond your comfort zone in order to discover who you are and what you are really capable of.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Doy Charnsupharindr is an executive coach and an instructor of MBA-level courses on developing leadership, communication, and coaching skills. He has taught at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Davis’ Graduate School of Management, and Berkeley Executive Education. He has also guest lectured at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership (Germany), Nanyang Business School (Singapore) and the Thailand Management Association (Thailand). As an instructor and consultant, Doy draws upon his prior professional experiences in management, customer service, business strategy, operations, and product management for the financial services and high technology industry. Today, he is the CEO of the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute. He continues to coach and lead workshops for some of the largest corporations, as well as non-profit and governmental organizations worldwide. The clients he has worked with include Adobe, Amazon, Cisco, DHL, Facebook, Genentech, McKinsey, Moody’s, Novartis, PG&E, Pixar, Procter & Gamble, and Salesforce. Doy has an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School (2011) and a BA in Economics from Stanford University (2000). He’s a former musical director of Stanford’s Mixed Company a cappella and a winner of the 2001 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award (CARA). His love for the performing arts extended to other stages as an actor and a singer. He performs regularly with various Bay Area theatre companies. Doy utilizes his extensive experiences in the performing arts to enable others to develop their communication skills and leadership presence. His goal as a coach and instructor is to be the catalyst for others to become authentic leaders, change agents, and inspirational communicators.