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Managing for Maximum Performance (UCSD) Content

Reading Material
  • Managment Skills and Applications (Required)
  • Introduction to Type (Required)
  • FYI – For Your Improvement (Highly Recommended)

Session 1

Learning Topics

Management in a Diverse Workplace / The Management Movement

Preparation/Reading Assignments
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
Classroom Application
  • Course Overview & Requirements
  • Leadership: The Art of Possibility(DVD)
  • Slide Session 1
  • Introduction – Leadership Mandala Overview and Instructions
Additional Books and Articles for this Session
  • The Art of Possibility (Zander)
  • The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes)
  • Leadership (Burns)
  • The Essential Drucker (Drucker)
  • Leadership for the Twenty-First Century (Rost)
  • The Brand Called YOU (Peters)

Session 2

Learning Topics

Developing Communication Skills / Decision-Making Skills

Preparation/Reading Assignments
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Slide Session 2
  • Take MBTI Online
  • Intro to Type (Pages 4-10)
Classroom Application
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Overview and Individual Report Results & Application Exercises
  • Sample MBTI Report for Organization – Personal Profile Results
  • Exploring Type (DVD)
  • Sign up for class projects
Examples of Class Project Presentations
  • Communication Skills – Fall 07 1
  • Communication Skills – Fall 07 2
  • Communication Skills – Summer 07
  • Communication Skills – Spring 07
  • Decision Skills – Spring 07
Additional Books and Articles for this Session
  • Do What You Are (Tieger)
  • Nurture By Nature (Tieger)
  • Just Your Type (Tieger)
  • Please Understand Me (Keirsey/Bates)
  • Type Talk at Work (Rost)
  • Personality Page Website

Session 3

Learning Topics

Basics of Planning & Strategic Management / Operations Management & Planning

Preparation/Reading Assignments
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 19
  • Slide Session 3
  • Review a copy of your company’s strategic plan
Classroom Application
  • Elements of Strategic Plans & Examples
  • Highlight different Methodologies and Types
  • IVGN Pride Roll Out – 2002 Vision, Mission, Values example
  • 7-S – IVGN HR Functional Plan Example
Examples of Class Project Presentations
  • Planning/Strategy Management – Winter 08
  • Operations Management – Winter 08
  • Planning/Strategy Management – Fall 07
  • Operations Management – Fall 07
  • Planning/Strategy Management – Summer 07
Additional Books and Articles for this Session
  • Built to Last (Porras)
  • Good to Great (Collins)
  • Building Your Company’s Vision (Collins)
  • The Balanced Scoreboard (Kaplan/Norton)
  • Real-Time Strategy (Perry/Scott/Smallwood)
  • Execution (Bossidy)

Session 4

Learning Topics

Developing Employees & Managers / Developing Leadership Skills
Mid-Term Exam available on Blackboard

Preparation/Reading Assignments
  • Chapter 12
  • Chapter 14
  • Slide Session 4
Classroom Application
  • Coaching
  • Training that Drives Organizational Results
  • Leadership Architect Competency Card Sort 1 – ID Individual Leadership Strengths & Developing Areas
Examples of Class Project Presentations
  • Developing Employees – Winter 10
  • Developing Leadership Skills – Winter 10
  • Developing Employees – Winter 08
  • Managing Maximum Performance – Winter 08
  • Developing Employees – Fall 07
Additional Books and Articles for this Session
  • Performance Consulting (Robinson)
  • Structure On-The-Job Training (Jacobs)
  • Training for Impact (Robinson)
  • Principle-Centered Leadership (Covey)
  • Becoming a Servant Leader (Greenleaf)
  • Leadership and the New Science (Wheatley)
  • The Fifth Discipline (Senge)
  • Human Resource Champions (Ulrich)

Session 5

Learning Topics

Organizing Work / Organizing Structure
Mid-Term Exam due

Preparation/Reading Assignments
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
  • Bring a copy of your current position description
Classroom Application
  • Organization Restructure Example
  • Leadership Architect Competency Card Sort 2 – ID Current Job Competencies
  • Slide Session 5
Examples of Class Project Presentations
  • Organizing Work – Winter 10
  • Organizing Work – Winter 08
  • Organizing Structure – Winter 08
  • Organizing Work – Fall 07
  • Organizing Structure – Fall 07
Additional Books and Articles for this Session
  • The Boundaryless Organization (Ashkenas/Ulrich/Jick/Kerr)
  • Organization: Text, Cases and Readings on Management of Organizational Design and Change (Schlesinger)
  • Tomorrow’s Organization (Mohrman/Balbraith/Lawler)
  • Images of Organization (Morgan)
  • Work Redesign (Hackman/Oldham)

Session 6

Learning Topics

Understanding Work Groups & Teams / Motivating Employees

Preparation/Reading Assignments
  • Chapter 10
  • Chapter 13
Classroom Application
  • MBTI Interaction Styles
  • Retention and Development for Long Run
  • FISH Philosophy – Application Worksheet and Employee Motivation Assessment Worksheet
  • FISH (DVD)
  • Slide Session 6
Examples of Class Project Presentations
  • Work Groups/Teams – Winter 08
  • Motivating Employees – Winter 08
  • Motivating Employees – Fall 07
  • Work Groups/Teams – Summer 07
  • Motivating Employees – Summer 07
Additional Books and Articles for this Session
  • Self Directed Work Teams: The New American Challange (Orsburn/Moran/Musselwhite/Zenger)
  • Leading Self-Directed Work Teams (Fisher)
  • The Age of Participation (McLagan)
  • Love’em or Lose’em (Kaye/Jordan-Evans)
  • Fish (Lundin/Paul/Christensen/Blanchard)
  • The Wisdom of Teams (Katzenbach/Smith)

Session 7

Learning Topics

Staffing / Appraising & Rewarding Performance

Preparation/Reading Assignments
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 18
  • Slide Session 7
  • Bring copy of your company’s Performance Review Form
Classroom Application
  • Overview of Behavioral and Competency Interviewing
  • Hiring Talent
  • Job Profile Interview Preparation Form
  • Development Planning Tool
  • Leadership Architect – Self Performance Evaluation Against Job Competencies
  • Leadership Development Action Plan
Examples of Class Project Presentations
  • Staffing – Fall 07
  • Appraising and Rewarding – Fall 07 1
  • Appraising and Rewarding – Fall 07 2
  • Staffing – Summer 07
  • Appraising and Rewarding – Summer 07 1
Additional Books and Articles for this Session
  • Topgrading (Smart)
  • How to do a Superior Performance Appraisal (Swan)
  • 1001 Ways to Reward Employees (Nelson)
  • Designing Performance Appraisal Systems (Mohrman/Resnick-West/Lawler)
  • Strategic Pay (Lawler)

Session 8

Learning Topics

Managing Conflict & Stress / Managing Change & Culture
Final Exam Available

Preparation/Reading Assignments
  • Chapter 15
  • Chapter 16
  • Slide Session 8
Classroom Application
  • Leading and Managing Change
  • GROWing Change Worksheet
  • Priorities for Life – Change (DVD)
Examples of Class Project Presentations
  • Conflict & Stress – Fall 07 1
  • Conflict & Stress – Fall 07 2
  • Change & Culture – Fall 07
  • Conflict & Stress – Summer 07
  • Conflict & Stress – Spring 07
Additional Books and Articles for this Session
  • Managing Transitions (Bridges)
  • Leading Change (Kotter)
  • The 7 Levels of Change (Smith)
  • Communicating for Change (D’Aprix)
  • Aftershock: Helping People Through Corporate Change (Woodward/Bucholz/Hess)
  • Thriving on Chaos (Peters)
  • The Fifth Discipline (Senge)
  • Awakening Corporate Soul (Klein/Izzo)

Session 9

Learning Topics

Class Presentations / Final Exam Due / Final Papers Due / Learning & Application Journals Due

Classroom Application
  • Final Papers & Learning Journals Due
  • Wrap Up: Hot Wash After Action Review
  • Course Evaluations Due

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