Leadership Focus Session 4: Transformational & Transactional Leadership

Leadership Focus Session 4:  Transformational & Transactional Leadership

This is the fourth session in the fall Leadership Focus, a series of workshops that are held over the course of the semester. The Leadership Focus is taught by Clint Sidle, director of the Park Fellows Program, and is open to all students.

Session 4 will focus on the the sources of personal power and influence, and when and how to use personal power and influence.

Fall Leadership Focus Schedule
All classroom sessions are held from 4:25pm to 5:40pm.

Area: Discovering Leadership (what is it?)

• 08/31/2013--Session 1 (Full-day kick off): Hoffman Challenge Course at Cornell Outdoor Education Center
• 09/10/2013--Session 2 (Classroom): Learning to Learn from Experience
• 09/30/2013--Session 3 (Classroom): Leadership Theory
• 10/02/2013--Session 4 (Classroom): Transformational & Transactional Leadership

Area: Personal Mastery (managing self)

• 10/16/2013--Session 5 (Classroom): The Leadership Wheel
• 10/28/2013--Session 6 (Classroom): Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• 11/02/2013--Session 7 (Full-day session): Personal Mastery
• 11/11/2013--Session 8 (Classroom): Emotional Intelligence

Area: Interpersonal Mastery (managing relationships)

• 11/18/2013--Session 9 (Classroom): Difficult Conversations

Structure and Credit
In an effort to develop and maintain the cohort of learning partners effectively, the Leadership Focus is offered as a series of one-hour sessions supplemented by half-day and full-day workshops. The entire series for the Fall Semester will be offered as 1.0 credits on a pass/fail basis. You must attend at least 80% of the sessions to receive credit.

(Please note: You can register for either of the full-day sessions (Hoffman Challenge Course on 9/07 and/or Personal Mastery on 11/02) without signing up for the rest of the series. Each of the full-day sessions is worth 0.2 credits. Classroom sessions, however, are only open to those students participating in the full series.)