Leadership Module for Honors Model United Nations

Leadership Module for Honors POLS 200 Model United Nations
Description:
This course module focus is on the political nature, mechanics, and concrete outcomes of leadership pertaining to Model United Nations
with a particular emphasis on team building. Borrowing from political science and leadership literature, this module seeks to familiarize students
with the significance of leadership (i.e., agency) in a complex educational setting.

Class meetings will entail student led discussions and projects designed to challenge you to employ multiple perspectives,
and develop ideas regarding leadership.

Objectives:
1. To understand and apply major theories of leadership to intercollegiate contexts.
2. To develop an understanding of the processes, practices and purposes of leadership.
3) To provide links between theory and practice.
4) To encourage student reflection regarding leadership styles

Leadership Expectations:

  1. Class members will be responsible for planning and setting organizing goals
  2. Facilitate  training of Model UN skills
  3. Facilitate team learning, prioritize collaboration and partnership
  4. Provide team building, recruiting and selecting team members

Module Requirements:
1. Attendance and participation
2. Discussion of readings
3. Projects and assignments
4. Reflection paper.

Spring 2014 MEETING AND ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE (Tentative) coincides with POLS 200 syllabus dates:
(all assignments are due on the date specified unless noted otherwise)

Jan 15 Leadership assignment (tentative) to be completed during the week of Jan 15th
Leadership interviews: Ask open end questions about their leadership styles and secrets to success.
Felix Sturmer fsturmer@jccc.edu coach of the culinary team (also from Germany)
Deborah Williams dwilli63@jccc.edu Faculty Association President
(see reading leadership styles)

Jan 22 Model UN exam

Jan 29 Leadership assignment: Leading by example and helping other team members.
Develop ideas and suggestions for helping colleagues complete papers for NMUN MYC and MMUN St. LOUIS.
(see articles working with people and relationships) also (Five leadership lessons from ‘Invictus’)

Feb. 5 Leadership Assignment: Develop team building ideas by scheduling events in St. Louis and New York. (see building and leading teams)


Feb. 12 Leadership Assignment:
Helping prepare colleagues for conferences (develop ideas for speaking and resolution development) (see building and leading teams) & (why leaders fail)

Feb 18-22 St. Louis Model UN conference (leadership in action)

Feb. 26 NMUN papers are due

March 5 Leadership Assignment:
Secretary General MKCMUN duties start helping train colleagues for conference (see articles on power)

March 12 and 26th MKCMUN training

April 9 Leadership Assignment: Metro Kansas City Model United Nations leadership role (Secretary General)

April 11 NMUN

April 23 Leadership Assignment:  German leaders

April 28 Leadership Assignment Leadership refection paper

May 7 To be announced 

Leadership

The following site has a list of some quotes about leadership from some well-known individuals
Leadership quotes
http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershipquotes.html

 

Leadership styles
http://psychology.about.com/od/leadership/a/leadstyles.htm

Five leadership lessons from “Invictus”
http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/leadership_playlist/2009/12/five-leadership-lessons-from-invictus.html

 

Working with people
Read about Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs at: http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/hierarchyneeds.htm

Ideas about how to build trust in organizations presented by Stephen M. R. Covey in his article, “How the Best Leaders Build Trust” found at: http://www.leadershipnow.com/CoveyOnTrust.html

Examine Kevin Daley’s article, “Communicating with Power” found at: http://www.leadershipnow.com/KevinDaley.html

Take a look at some observations about motivation made by some well-known individuals found at:
http://www.leadershipnow.com/motivationquotes.html

 

The following articles on building and leading teams:

http://humanresources.about.com/od/involvementteams/a/twelve_tip_team.htm
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadtem.html
http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/LeadTeam.html
Important observations about relationships:
http://www.leadershipnow.com/relationshipsquotes.html

 

Why Leaders Fail
http://www.leadershipnow.com/sanborn.html
and
http://ezinearticles.com/?4-Key-Contributors-to-Leadership-Failure&id=2539414

 

Leadership Theory
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/theories/leadership_theories.htm

 

Importance of Values
the idea of service to others found in Michael McKinney’s essay The Focus of Leadership: http://www.leadershipnow.com/service.html

The role of values found in George Washington’s First Inaugural Address: http://www.leadershipnow.com/gwinaugural.html

The rules of civility that were important to George Washington: http://www.foundationsmag.com/civility.html

Consider the following quotes about the importance of integrity: http://www.leadershipnow.com/integrityquotes.html

 

Power
The five bases for power identified by French and Raven:

http://changingminds.org/explanations/power/french_and_raven.htm
Other theories about the nature of power found at:

http://changingminds.org/explanations/power/power.htm

 

German Leadership
Max Weber’s understanding of charisma found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charismatic_authority

The Leadership Styles of the German Chancellors
http://books.google.com/books?id=xlT3RAEOR7YC&pg=PA187&dq=german+leadership&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UIXIUq6YLMSq2QXL3YHQCw&ved=0CGwQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=german%20leadership&f=false

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