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COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA
291C-11
COURSE TITLE: Active
Communicating: The Art of Inspirational Leadership
UNITS OF CREDIT:
1 Unit
INSTRUCTOR: Mark Rittenberg
E-MAIL ADDRESSES:
mark_rittenberg@haas.berkeley.edu
MEETING
DAY(S)/TIME: Sundays, 9 AM-6 PM
PREREQUISITE(S):
EWMBA 200C—Leadership Communications
CLASS FORMAT:
Skills building, learning activities, study of inspirational leaders, group
presentations and lectures
COURSE OUTLINE:
Success within any enterprise depends on leaders having both the knowledge and
personal creativity, and on skillfully communicating that knowledge and
creativity. When an individual can align knowledge and creativity and embody
the four powers of presence, communication, conviction and knowledge they are
able to become a more inspirational leader. In addition, these individuals
develop a strong leadership presence.
This advanced leadership course focuses on the skills, tools, attitudes and
behaviors necessary to become an inspirational leader.
The course begins by building on the basic building blocks of effective
communication introduced in the core class EWMBA200 drawing from the science of
anthropology and the theater arts. These skills include energy, spontaneity, power of intention, vocal variety, listening, awareness and
communicating with presence.
Class participants will progress to leadership journey work where they will
have the opportunity to discover and and craft their
own leadership story, discovery and working on our personal values, how we
became the leader we are, and personal/professional aspirations for the future
serve as a major component of the inspirational leadership curriculum.
By drawing on these skills as well as working with poetry, prose and songs, (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.
The course will examine how inspirational leaders impact their people and their
audience by the ability to play a variety of roles i.e. speaker, storyteller,
motivator, facilitator, coach, mentor, collaborator, and teacher.
Noted inspirational leaders from corporate as well as political life will be
examined such as Bob Galvin former CEO of the Motorola Corporation, Nelson
Mandela, Steve Jobs, and Barack Obama.
Class readings, lectures, and discussions address participants' specific
workplace applications.
Coures Objectives:
REQUIRED READINGS:
Rittenberg, Mark and Joyce Duffala
"The Active Communicating Survival Kit"
Tichy, Noel "The Leadership Engine – How Winning
Companies Build Leaders at Every Level"
BASIS FOR FINAL
GRADE:
Course Requirements:
1. Attendance during all hours of the course.
2. Submission of essay relating in-class activities and text material to
observation of inspirational leaders.
Grading:
50% based on in-class participation; 50% based on written assignment.
Assignments:
Between First and Second Class:
Read: Read: The Active Communicating Survival Kit,
pp. vii-viii, 1-10; at least 3 Skills (Act I); at least 1 Scene (Act II).
Read the Leadership Engine Chapter on
Inspirational Leadership and the Leader as Storyteller.
Written
Assignment:
Write a feature article for a newspaper where you profile an inspirational
leader from your family, personal life, or professional life. What are their
leadership characteristics and capabilities? How do you know they are an
inspirational leader? What has been your experience? Which leadership practices
do they engage in? Who are the people they motivate and inspire? How does this
inspirational leader change or improve the lives of those they motivate and
inspire? What are the results?
Include a box in the article where you summarize their best practices.
The article should reference any of the inspirational leadership practices
covered in class as well as other practices that are unique to a given
inspirational leader Finally, the feature article
should conclude with the lessons students of leadership can learn from this
person.
Each article which should be the quality of New York times/Wall Street Journal
publishable should be between 1500-2000 words and should include a picture of
the inspirational leader if possible.
Due Date TBD. Email to mark_rittenberg@haas.berkeley.edu
BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH:
Dr. Mark Rittenberg is CEO of Corporate Scenes, Inc.
and is the designer of ACTIVE COMMUNICATING corporate education programs. He
served for seven years as Associate Professor at Lesley College Graduate
School. He currently serves on the core faculty of the Walter Haas School of
Business, University of California at Berkeley where he heads the Leadership
Communications program for the evening/weekend MBA students as well as for the
Berkeley Columbia MBA program.
In 1985,
Professor Rittenberg was visiting Artist and Teaching
Fellow at Harvard University where he conducted seminars in the Graduate School
of Education and the Harvard Business School. In 1993, he was awarded the J.
William Fulbright Senior Scholar awarded by the United States Information
Agency and traveled to Soweto, South Africa, where he served as Diversity
Specialist in building black/white relationships in South African corporations
and education institutions. He returned to South Africa in 1994, 1995, and 1996
in order to implement Active Communicating Educational Programs as a
communication intervention to assist corporate and political leadership in the
transition to a multicultural, democratic, non-racial South Africa. His
doctorate in International and Multicultural Education is based on his work in
South Africa.
Dr. Rittenberg evolved the ACTIVE COMMUNICATING methodology
from his own background as an actor and director. The methodology draws upon
acting skills and anthropological principles in skilling managers, aspiring
leaders and the critical mass in becoming both powerful communicators and
authentic leaders. He currently provides educational programs and executive
coaching programs for corporations including, Lucent Technologies, AT&T,
The Gap, Levi Strauss, Lockheed Martin and Sandia National Laboratories. In
addition he heads an annual Executive Coaching Institute at UC Berkeley where
he trains new executive coaches as well as executives who want to avail
themselves of a coaching training in order to become more effective leaders.
Recently he
served as chief designer and consultant for the National Principals Leadership
academy conducted at Washington University in June 2009 dedicated to high
school principals becoming coaches and mentors for teachers teaching in
disadvantaged situations. The leadership academy was funded in part by
President Obama’s White House initiative dedicated to building better schools
through outstanding leadership.