COURSE NUMBER: MBA255.1

This class is cross-listed with the EWMBA Program.

COURSE TITLE: Leadership

UNITS OF CREDIT: 2.0

INSTRUCTOR: Jenny Chatman

E-MAIL ADDRESS: chatman@haas.berkeley.edu

MEETING DATES: Tuesdays 8/30, 9/27, 10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/29

CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: bCourses

PREREQUISITE(S): MBA205 Leading People

CLASS FORMAT: Discussions, cutting edge research briefings, live cases with visiting executives, experiential learning and simulations, 360-degree feedback, team consulting project

COURSE MATERIALS: Course reader, cases, video cases, and assessment packet - all online.

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Leadership Self-Analysis and Action Plan (LSAAP): 25%,Leadership Project Paper: 20%, Class Participation: 20%, Team Evaluation Paper: 10%, Team's Evaluation of You: 5%, Feedback Interpretation Memos (FIMs - 3 total): 5% each, 15% for all three, Leadership Project Presentation: 5%

CAREER FIELD: All executive, leadership, and management roles regardless of sector or industry. This course will be useful for anyone aspiring to be an influential leader or individual contributor at some point in their career.

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
This course focuses on helping you become a great leader. The most effective leaders understand that their role is to inspire others to do extraordinary work and maximize collective success. The course includes four components designed to cultivate your leadership capabilities:

Assessment feedback detailing your leadership skills and related competencies to increase self-awareness. We use cutting edge assessments of you as a leader and the culture and strategic clarity you create for others.
Interaction with prominent leaders to gain a perspective on how they think about complex organizational challenges.
In-class experiential exercises that will identify effective behavioral approaches to leading others and help you gauge your opportunities for improvement.
Focused teamwork analyzing a leader's successes and challenges in real time.

The overall objective of the course is to increase your awareness about your own strengths and opportunities for improvement while gaining an understanding of the essential qualities to be an extraordinary leader. It is my goal that, by the end of the course you will have…

Increased your understanding of what distinguishes betSween more and less successful leaders.
Clarified your understanding of how to inspire and motivate others.
Sharpened your ability to diagnose situations and determine how to add value on a situation-by-situation basis.
Gained experience and confidence in leadership situations such as dealing with difficult people and inspiring others to accomplish shared team and organizational goals.
Developed the ability to accept and leverage feedback and offer useful feedback to others.
Constructed a specific plan for your own development as a leader.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Professor Jenny Chatman is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business. She has won the Cheit Award for Teaching Excellence at Haas, and this course has received a 6.9 out of 7 rating for the last two years in the Executive MBA Program. Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley she was a faculty member at Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern and the Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. Professor Chatman's research on leveraging organizational culture for financial success, leadership, and leading diverse teams has won awards and has frequently been featured in the media. She has served as a consultant to a wide range of organizations including Cisco Systems, Genentech, Mars Inc., The Portland Trailblazers, and Salesforce.com. She is the faculty director of the Center for Executive Education's Berkeley Executive Leader Program, and on the board of directors of Simpson Manufacturing (NYSE: SSD) and Prospect Sierra School. She was recently the keynote speaker at the Private Equity Women's Conference and the AACSB's Dean's Conference.