Billie Franchini, Ph.D. Assistant Director Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership University at Albany

Good morning!

 Consider six key leadership principles  Communicating  Collaborating  Decision-making  Debating  Compromising  Courage  Translate these principles into productive behaviors for managing team tasks effectively

 Line up on the left side of the room and count off to 6  Your number is your Team Number  Find your team’s table and introduce yourself to your team members if you don’t know each other already

 An envelope with a leadership principle written on the outside  Five index cards with your team number on them

 In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings.  Example: The principle is communicating. If you are working on a team project, what can you do to ensure or facilitate communication?  List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.  You have 5 minutes to complete this task.

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 Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table on your right.  DO NOT read the response cards in the envelope you receive.  Make sure you have received an envelope with a new principle (i.e., one you haven’t already discussed).

 In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings.  List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.  You have 4 minutes to complete this task.

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 Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table on your right.  DO NOT read the response cards in the envelope you receive.  Make sure you have received an envelope with a new principle (i.e., one you haven’t already discussed).

 In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings.  List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.  You have 4 minutes to complete this task.

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 Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table on your right.  DO NOT read the response cards in the envelope you receive.  Make sure you have received an envelope with a new principle (i.e., one you haven’t already discussed).

 In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings.  List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.  You have 4 minutes to complete this task.

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 Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table on your right.  DO NOT read the response cards in the envelope you receive.  Make sure you have received an envelope with a new principle (i.e., one you haven’t already discussed).

 In your teams, discuss the leadership principle on the envelope and identify how this principle can be applied in team/group settings.  List these application examples in short sentences/phrases on one of the index cards.  You have 4 minutes to complete this task.

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 Put your response cards in your envelope and pass it to the table to your right.  NOW you can read the response cards in the envelope you receive.

 As a team, evaluate the four response cards inside the envelope.  You have 100 points to distribute among the five response cards to indicate each card’s relative merit. Assign points to each card.  You have 15 minutes to complete this task.

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 Each team choose a representative to bring scored cards to the front and pick up your team’s scored cards (there should be four cards total)  Add the scores on your cards: this is your final score

 Team 1:  Team 2:  Team 3:  Team 4:  Team 5:  Team 6:

Let’s discuss your experience

Good leadership means  knowing when and how to apply all of the six principles  knowing which principles apply in a given situation  knowing when to take on a leadership role  knowing how to resolve conflict and effectively manage differences of opinion  helping your team work to get the job done!

Thank you!