Cycle 4 Scenario Four

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Cycle 4 (Scenario Four)

• Chapter 7 Followership
• Chapter 9 Leadership Communication
• Chapter 10 Leading Teams
• Meeting Four Merger of Cultures

John E. Dunning Troy University
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Learning Objectives

• Apply the principles of effective followership
  including responsibility, service, challenging
  authority, participating in change, and knowing
  when to leave. (Reinforced) (Ch 7)
• Use key elements of effective listening and
  understand why listening is important to leader
  communication (Ch 9)
• Use communication to influence and persuade
  others (Ch 9)
• Effectively communicate during times of stress or
  crisis (Ch 9)
• Handle conflicts that inevitably arise among
  members of a team. (Ch 10)

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Learning Objectives

• Experience gained from Scenario Four play
• Adapt to and assess new priorities
• Assimilate new leadership
• Use conflict management techniques
• Influence and persuade the group to focus on the
  right priorities
• Manage tension to productive levels

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Experiential Learning

• Stage One Conceptualize
• Chapters 6, 7, 9 10
• Stage Two Plan
• Discuss Scenario Four Strategies Tactics
• Stage Three Experience
• Play Scenario Four Key Learning Points
• Stage Four Reflect
• Discuss scores and worksheets

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Stage One - Conceptualize

• Class Lecture and Discussion
• Chapter 6 Courage and Moral Leadership
• Exhibit 6.5 The Continuum of Leader-Follower
  Relationships
• Focus on Stage 3 Empowerment
• Chapter 7 Followership
• Review strategies for managing up
• Exhibit 7.3 Ways to Influence Your Leader

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Stage Two - Plan

• Team Planning Meeting
• Discuss Scenario Four Strategies Tactics
• Use Cycle 4 Scenario Four Team Planning Handout
• From Chapter 6
• Look for evidence of Stage 3 (Corey) actions on
  the Continuum of Leader-Follower Relationships
• From Chapter 7
• Look for opportunities to manage up
• These include generating new ideas, building
  factions and partnering with authority,
  challenging your managers ideas without
  alienating him, and passing ideas to support
  organizational goals.

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Stage Three - Experience

• Play Scenario Four
• Complete Cycle 4 - Scenario Four Key Learning
  Points

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Stage Four - Reflect

• Team Discussion
• Review and discuss individual scores
• Compute team score
• Discuss individual assessments on the Key
  Learning Points
• Class Discussion
• Review the recorded session on Scenario 3
• http//www.simulearn.net/Sessions/Session4/index.h
  tml

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Summary Cycle 4
Conceptualize (Chapters 6 7) Class Lecture and
Discussion
Plan (Scenario Strategy Tactics) Team
Discussions
Reflect Team Class Discussion
Experience Scenario Four