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Course Facilitator

Chad Habel, PhD (English), Flinders 最新糖心Vlog, Grad Cert Ed (HE), 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide, BA (Hons), Flinders 最新糖心Vlog
M: +61 433 318 001 (text preferred to phone calls)
E: chad.habel@adelaide.edu.au

Chad Habel has been teaching learning, and researching in South 最新糖心Vlogn universities for over 20 years, has been participating in FoL (including teaching) since 2017. With an academic background in English Literature, he has also taught and researched in Education, Enabling Programs, and Student Development, and has held team supervision roles in various units and departments across all three South 最新糖心Vlogn Universities. This includes roles as the Student Development Program Coordinator at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide as well as 最新糖心Vlog Preparatory Program Coordinator and Course Coordinator of ‘The Enquiring Mind’ a foundational course in the first year of the Faculty of Arts for 1000+ students a year. Most recently he worked as an Academic Developer on the UniSA Online Course development process which presented a whole range of interesting challenges.

Fundamentals of Leadership, positioned at the beginning of the MBA program, encourages students to explore issues and develop personal skills central to leadership.  By developing analytical skills and self-awareness, students will be well placed to broaden their understanding of others thoughout the MBA program.

At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to:

1	Distinguish between ‘authority’ and ‘adaptive leadership’, identify examples of ‘authority’ and ‘adaptive leadership’ and reflect on their relative effectiveness in specific contexts
2	Identify, diagnose and analyse complicated and complex systems in the workplace and shift analytical focus from individuals towards these systems as well as separate the processes of observation and interpretation and resist quick interpretations leading to misguided actions
3	Undertake a process of personal transformation through the development of a wide array of leadership skills
4	Propose ‘safe-to-fail’ experiments designed to help understand systems, themselves, and others and guide the way towards more effective leadership
5	Gain and develop insights on self and others in a workplace context and ask deep, probing questions and provide courageous feedback to colleagues that helps them to learn
6	Identify, source, evaluate, interpret and analyse both primary and secondary data to inform small scale research task

Heifetz RA and Linsky, M 2002, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading (Boston: Harvard Business School Press).

Kegan R and Lahey L 2009, Immunity to Change, How to overcome it and Unlock the potential in Yourself and your Organization, (Harvard Business Review Press).

D’Souza S & Renna D 2014, Not knowing: The art of turning uncertainty into opportunity, LID, London.

MyUni is used extensively in this course in a blended learning format, meaning that it is an impootant aspect of your learning prior to and in between your formal class activities. The most important information for your daily engagement with the course can be found on MyUni, especially information relating to your prepartion for each class and your assignment information. MyUni is also where you will submit all your assignments and receive your feedback and grades on them. You should get in the habit of visiting MyUni several times a week for updates and activities.

Also, important communications will be transmitted both via MyUni and to your student email addres, so please ensure you check your student email regularly or set up a reliable forwarding system to your primary email address.

We have ‘taught’ FOL and other Leadership courses for many years and we have both gone through a learning process as we have worked with many groups in Adelaide, Singapore and Hong Kong as well as in Executive Education and in many companies, not-for-profit organisations and governments. We realised a long time ago that leadership cannot be taught – at least not in the traditional way that we think about teaching. There are two distinctly different types of learning: one is informational – about stuff that you need to know – and the other is transformational – about your thinking and your sense-making. For us leadership requires some information giving, but transformational learning is the key.

So, if leadership cannot be taught why have a core course called ‘Fundamentals of Leadership’ in the MBA? The answer to that is good news for all of us: Leadership can be learned and all of us have daily opportunities to learn as we interact with people at all levels in and beyond our organisations. We see and experience what works and we see and experience what doesn’t work in many different human interactions. Whether we take note of our thinking, whether we consider our stereotypes and biases as we experience human interactions is another question.

Our aim in FOL is to help you to learn by crafting a course that enables you to surface and challenge your thinking and your approach to leadership. We want you to ponder and reflect on leadership generally and your own experience in particular. We want you to have many conversations about leadership and hear and tell many stories – with your FOL colleagues, people at work, family and friends: people you meet formally and people you meet informally. We want you to read widely and critically about leadership and think about its application to your own context. Most importantly we want you to intentionally and mindfully make some decisions about your own approach to leadership and present your thinking through a series of assignments.

Our purpose in this course is your learning. You will learn what you are ready and able to learn at this time, although students also report that learning continues well after the course finishes. For some the course is challenging – both the style of teaching and the workload. Our request is that you ‘hang in there’ – much of what we do becomes clear over time; we read many final assignments which say ‘I just got it… or I think I have…’: there is learning from the heart as well as in the head and this sometimes takes time to work through. ‘Presence’ and ‘mindfulness’ are important aspects of this course, and, we would suggest of leadership in any context. The Chade-Meng Tan Youtube clip explores the concept of mindfulness.

In the FOL intensives we will try to have as little traditional ‘teaching’ as possible. So if you don’t read / watch in advance you may find it challenging to follow the discussion and you may compromise your own learning. This will become increasingly apparent to us in your assignments throughout the course.

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

This is a standard ‘3 Unit’ MBA course which requires about 156 hours of student effort. These 156 hours includes the time spent in  class, working in your groups and undertaking assessment as well as reading and  assignment preparation. You could well find yourself engaged in thinking and practicing what you are learning for many more hours.

Please see MyUni for details on intensive content.

Assessment Task	Task Type	Weighting	Learning Outcome
Part A: Individual Case Study	Individual	5%	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Part A: Consultation Report 1	Individual	7.5%	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9
Part A: Consultation Report 2	Individual	7.5%	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9
Part B: Sustainability Essay	Individual	20%	3,6,8
Part B: Peer Feedback on Sustainability Essay	Individual	10%	3,6,8,9
Part C: Final Group Report	Group	15%	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9
Part C: Final Individual Report	Individual	35%	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9

For further information please see MyUni

For assessment information please visit MyUni.

For assessment information please visit MyUni.

All assessments are to be submitted via MyUni.