21722 Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring

Subject level: Postgraduate

Handbook description

This subject emphasises understanding the role of the manager as leader, decision maker and change agent. Topics include: the manager's role; transformational/transactional leadership; rational and incremental decision making; decision-making alternative strategies; situational characteristics of decision making; creativity and problem solving; transactional analysis; the rational-emotive approach; the Gestalt approach; and dealing with interpersonal conflict.

Subject objectives/outcomes

On successful completion of this subject students should be able to:

1. Understand their own leadership and managerial patterns and elate these patterns to a range of psychological models
2. Apply psychological theory to the development of effective new patterns both for the self, and for others though coaching and mentoring
3. Understand the appropriateness and situational applicability of various decision models – e.g. rational, model, incremental, heuristic, satisfying etc.
4. Understand how to cope with decision making under conditions of stress
5. Apply the above theories to help subordinates develop strategic thinking and effective decision skills
6. Identify Leadership roles and competencies for effective action
7. Understand various leadership styles and their situational applicability
8. Apply theory to the coaching and mentoring of others in developing appropriate leadership styles.

Contribution to graduate profile

Leadership Coaching and Mentoring is fundamental to the development of students as future leaders. The subject is taught from three perspectives – (1) a psychological perspective (2) a decision-making perspective and (3) a competency perspective. Presentations of models from the literature highlight characteristics of effective leaders in these three dimensions and allow students to identify gaps and areas for development of self and others. The approach taken in the subject delivery and associated assignments is to encourage students to both develop their personal styles of leadership as well to coach and mentor subordinates.

Teaching and learning strategies

Classes will involve a combination of lectures, video analysis, role-plays, and simulation exercises. Assignments focus on personal exploration and development of leadership styles and competencies in self and others.

Content

• Understanding personal psychology of leadership – Transactional analysis.
• The Rational Emotional approach – dealing with negative emotions.
• The Gestalt Approach – the ropes to skip and the ropes to know.
• Coaching and mentoring skills.
• Judgement and Biases in decision making.
• Systematic ways of decision-making – the Rational model, Incremental models, and heuristics.
• Decision making under conditions of stress.
• Leadership and Management – is there a difference?
• Transformational and Transactional leadership.
• Leadership roles and competencies.
• Leadership and emotional intelligence.
• Visioning and shaping culture.
• Leadership and the learning organisation.
• Leadership models – Binary, Ternary and Servant Centred leadership.
• Coaching others towards high performance.

Assessment

Recommended text(s)

Book of Readings.

Indicative references

Arbinger Institute (Editor). (2002). Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box. Berrett-Koehler, Publishers. 1st Edition.

Bazerman, Max H. (1997) Judgement in Managerial Decision Making. John Wiley and Sons., (4th Edition).

Bennis, Warren., Nanus, Burt. (2003) Strategies for taking charge. HarperBusiness.

Blanchard, Ken. (2003). Servant Leader. J Countryman Books.

Chapman, Tony., Best Bill. (2003). Executive Coaching: Exploding the Myths. Palgrave, Mcmillan

Clarkson, Petruska (2000) Gestalt Counselling in Action. Sage Publications.

Cooper, Robert K., Sawaf, Ayman. (1997) Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations, Grosset Putnam.

Dubrin, Andrew J., Dalglish, Carol. (2003) Leadership: An Australian Focus, John Wiley and Sons, Milton Queensland.

Dubrin, Andrew J. (1998) Leadership: Research Findings, Practice and Skills, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston,

Dryden, Windy. (2001). Reason to Change: A Rational Behaviour Therapy (REBT) Workbook.Taylor and Francis Publishers.

Dryden, Windy and Ellis, Albert.. (1997) The Practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy., Springer Pub Co. New York

Ellis, Albert. (2001) Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior. Prometheus Books.

Finkelstein, Sydney. (2003). Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes. Portfolio Publishers.

Fitzgerald, Catherine., Garvey-Berger, Jennifer. (2002). Executive Coaching: Practices and Perspectives. Davies-Black Publishers.

Fullan, Michael. (2001). Leading in a Culture of Change, Jossey Bass, 1st edition.

Goleman, Daniel., McKee Annie., Boyatsis, Richard E. (2002). Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence: Harvard Business School Press.

Greenleaf, Robert. (2003). The Servant Leader Within, Paulist Press.

James, M. and Jongeward, D. (1996) Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments, (25th edition) Addison Wesley. New York

Kouzes James, M., Pozner, Barry, M. (2003). The Leadership Challenge, John Wiley and Sons. 3rd edition.

Kouzes, James M., Pozner, Barry M. (2003) The Leadership Challenge Workbook, John Wiley and Sons.

Manning, George., Curtis, Kent. (2002) The Art of Leadership, McGraw Hill Irwin

Mant Alistair. (1997) Intelligent Leadership, Allen and Unwin, New York.

Maxwell, John C. (2000) Developing the Leader Within You, Thomas Nelson, 2nd Edition.

Napper, Rosemary., Newton, Trudi. (2000), Tactics: Transactional Analysis Concepts for all Trainers, Teachers and Tutors and Insight into Collaborative Learning Strategies, TA Resources.

Neenan, Michael., Dryden, Windy. (2001) Learning from Errors in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Whurr Publishers.

Peltier, Bruce, (2001). The Psychology of Executive Coaching: Theory and Application, Brunner-Routeledge.1st ed.

Plous, Scott., (1996) The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making, McGraw-Hill Book Company.

Spears Larry (Ed). (1995) Reflections on Leadership: How Robert K. Greenleaf's Theory of Servant-Leadership influenced today's Top Management Thinkers, John Wiley.

Schein Edgar H, and Crocker Cedric., (2001) Organizational Culture and Leadership, Jossey Bass Publishers, 2001. 2nd edition.

Steward, Ian. (2000) Transactional Analysis Counselling in Action, Sage Publications, 2nd Edition.

Weiss, Tracey., Kolberg, Sharyn. (2002). Coaching Competencies and Corporate Leadership. Saaint Lucie Press.