Graduate Student Leadership Certificate Program Pilot

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1 Graduate Student Leadership Certificate Program Pilot Program facilitators: Tyrus Miller, Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, and Jim Moore, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies All sessions are on Friday afternoon 1:30-5, except Thursday-Friday workshop, 9-10 Feb. Statement of purpose: The graduate student leadership certificate program will introduce a range of leadership theory, practical skills, and special topics relevant for application in both academic and professional contexts. With a varied format including readings, interactive group activities, case studies, panel discussions, and professionally conducted workshop sessions, program participants will learn about major trends and debates in contemporary leadership thought, gain familiarity with project management and budgets, develop practical skills for negotiation and conflict resolution, and discuss modes of translating disciplinary expertise into social innovation and impact. The sessions will emphasize collaborative teamwork and the positive, productive employment of the different disciplinary perspectives and backgrounds students bring to the program. Schedule of sessions: January Topic: Managing Oneself, Managing Time, Career Expectations (Guest facilitator: Fehrunnisa Moore) Introduction and course overview; participant introductions; index card exercise to discuss goals and motives for studying leadership; thinking style inventory Peter Drucker, On Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review, 1999) David Rooke and William R. Torbet, Seven Transformations of Leadership (Harvard Business Review, April 2005) Bill George et al, Discovering Your Authentic Leadership (Harvard Business Review, February 2007) John Kotter, What Leaders Really Do (Harvard Business Review, May 1990) Alexandra Lord, The Sweet Spot of a Non-Academic Job Search (Inside Higher Ed, January 2, 2012) Sound Views Executive Summary: Robert Bolton, People Styles at Work Maximize Your Professional Value, CKC s Executive Edge, 1/9

2 January Topic: Introduction to Academic Leadership and Administration Horizon time line exercise; collaborative learning exercise on academic leadership Panel discussion with UCSC administrators and Senate leaders Judith M. Gappa, Ann E. Austin, and Andrea G. Trice, The Changing Context for Faculty Work and Workplaces in Rethinking Faculty Work: Higher Education s Strategic Imperative (2007) Peter Eckel and Matthew Hartley, The Dynamic Nature of Knowledge: Future Challenges and Opportunities for College and University Leaders (American Council on Education, 2008) Byron White and Peter Eckel, Collective Foresight: The Leadership Challenges for Higher Education s Future (American Council on Education, 2008) February (***Note: Thursday / Friday workshop) Workshop: Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership; Ethics/Integrity/Trust Building 360 degree assessment Led by Dan Schwab (510) c#(510) James Kouzes and Barry Posner, The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership from The Leadership Challenge (2007) Materials package provided for workshop February Topic: Project management and planning; budgets: academic, labs, grants Project Management as a Process: Four Phases from Managing Projects Large and Small (Harvard Business Essentials, 2004). A Bird s Eye View of the Budget at UCSC Margaret Barr, Unraveling the Budget and Dealing with Budget Cuts from An Academic Administrator s Guide to Budgets and Financial Management, Budgeting: Seeing the Future in Manager s Toolkit (Harvard Business Essentials, 2004)

3 --- 9 March Topic: Conflict and Conflict Resolution Workshop facilitator: Nancy Heischman, Senior Manager, UCSC Training and Development Office Kloperens, et al, Setting Expectations and Resolving Conflcts in Graduate Education (Council of Graduate Schools, 2008) W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy (Harvard Business Review, 1997). Carl and Suzanne Cohen, Win/Win with Peers: Make Allies, Not Enemies from Lab Dynamics (2005) How to Manage Workplace Conflict, CKC s Executive Edge, 1/ April Topic: Negotiation / Collaboration (Conducted jointly with Faculty / Staff Leadership Academy) Workshop: James Tamm: Negotiations and Radical Collaboration Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith, The Discipline of Teams (Harvard Business Review, March 1993). Heminia Ibarra and Morten T. Hansen, Are You a Collaborative Leader? (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2011) Paul Adler, Charles Heckscher, and Laurence Prusak, Building a Collaborative Enterprise (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2011) Foster A Culture of Colllaboration, CKC s Executive Edge, 1/12. How to Negotiate From Strength, CKC s Executive Edge, 1/ April Topic: Hiring, Mentoring, Coaching: Managing and Being Managed in Academic and Professional Environments Margaret King, On the Right Track: A Manual for Research Mentors (Council of Graduate Schools, 2003) Chris Argyris, Teaching Smart People How to Learn (Harvard Business Review, May 1991) Linda Hill, Learning What It Means to Be a Manager from Becoming a Manager, 2003.

4 Carl and Suzanne Cohen, Science, Inc.: Make a Smooth Transition to Industry, from Lab Dynamics (2005) What Attracts and Motivates Top Talent, CKC s Executive Edge, 1/ May Topic: Introduction to contemporary leadership philosophies: adaptive leadership, organizational learning, integrative thinking, Level 5 leadership (Session conducted jointly with Faculty / Staff Leadership Academy) Collaborative learning exercise on leadership philosophies Panel: Invited panelists TBA, including Rich Fernandez, Director of Executive Development at Google * Possible follow on field trip to Google. Ronald Heifetz and Donald Laurie, The Work of Leadership (Harvard Business Review, January 1997) Peter M. Senge, Team Learning from The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (2006) Roger Martin, Choices, Conflict, and the Creative Spark from The Opposable Mind (2009) Jim Collins, Level 5 Leadership (Harvard Business Review, 2001) Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, and Andrew Shimberg, How to 10X Your Influence, Vital Smarts Research Reports, Sound View Executive Book Summaries: Joseph Glenny, Influencer; Peter Senge, The Dance of Change May Topic: Cultivating Expertise, Innovation, Change Teresa M. Amabile, How to Kill Creativity (Harvard Business Review, September- October 1998) Eileen Morley and Andre Silver, A Film Director s Approach to Managing Creativity (Harvard Business Review, March-April 1977) Todd Henry, Relationships: Being Brilliant Together from The Accidental Creative (2011) George Day and Paul Schoemaker, Are you a Vigilant Leader? (MIT Sloan Management Review)

5 --- 1 June Topic: Entrepreneurship and Social Impact Panel: IP transfer and startups, social entrepreneurship, NGO and non-profit sector, green and sustainable entrepreneurship Nathaniel Foote, Russell Eisenstat, and Tobias Fredberg, The Higher Ambition Leader (Harvard Business Review, September 2011) Rosabeth Moss Kanter, How Great Companies Think Differently (Harvard Business Review, Nov Heerad Sabeti, The For-Benefit Enterprise (Harvard Business Review, Nov 2011) Scott Shane, What Does the Typical Start-up Look Like? and How Valuable Is the Average Start-up? from The Illusions of Entrepreneurship (2008) --- TBA: Graduation ceremony: conferral of certificates