Thursday, May 31, 2007

Links

Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm

Link to student contact photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/2drsylvia

Presentation Schedule


NegotiationChapters
Team 11Sun
Mee, Debby, Jane, Jemmy, Ben, Jeff2Sun
3Mon
Team 24Mon
Charles, Steven, Billy, Ivan, Vivian, Linda5Tues
6Tues
Team 37Thurs
Alan, Mandy, Tony, Joey, William, Joe8Thurs
9Fri
Team 410Fri
Terry, Tyler, Jacky, Leo, Michael, Connie, Bo11Sat
12Sat
Leadership
Team 11Sun
2Sun
Team 23Mon
4Mon
Team 35Tue
6Tue
Team 47Thurs
Terry, Tyler, Jacky, Leo, Michael, Connie, Bo8Fri
All9Fri
10Sat

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Syllabus

Required texts:
Barrett, D. J. (2008). Leadership communication. (2nd. Ed.) New York: McGraw-Hill. (ISBN: 978-0-07-340314-4)

Lewicki, R. J., et al. (2007). Essentials of negotiation (4th. Ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. (ISBN: 978-0-07-310276-4)

Recommended Texts: Fisher, R., Ury, W., Patton, B. (1991). Getting to yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in (2nd Ed.). Ury, W. (1991). Getting past no: Negotiating with difficult people. New York: Bantam. Anderson, K. (1993). Getting what you want: How to reach agreement and resolve conflict every time. New York: Dutton.

DESCRIPTION
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BA 318 - COMMUNICATIONS IN LEADERSHIP AND NEGOTIATIONS

This course concentrates on critical communications skills, particularly those needed for intelligent, face-to-face interactions, for effective tactics to achieve cooperation and gain consensus. There is emphasis on various strategies used in negotiating, for both individuals and leaders. Written and oral assignments are involved. (3 units)

OBJECTIVES
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Primary BA 318 : Communications in Leadership and Negotiation objectives are to:
1. Improve your ability to comprehend and produce effective written and oral business communications for leadership and negotiation purposes,
2. Evaluate business communications within appropriate contexts, and
3. Apply systematic communicative language processing strategies for critical thinking, problem solving, conflict resolution, decision making, goal setting and attainment.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Learn to analyze the communicator, audience, purpose, context, and strategies of
business communications in functional settings.
2. Select appropriate content, style and organization for varied situations.
3. Recognize appropriate presentation formats and techniques, and apply effective strategies in varied situations.
4. Become aware of tone and style choices in varied communications.
5. Gain experience in group projects.
6. Evaluate accurately the communications of self and others.
7. Reach concord in difficult situations
8. Provide appropriate leadership strategies in individual and group
contexts.
9. Learn and apply appropriate strategies in leadership and negotiation

Text goals:

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:


  1. Demonstrate competency in the fundamentals of business communications in leadership and negotiations.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the basic patterns of business messages as appropriate to dynamic contexts.
  3. Understand oral interpersonal communication including one-on-one, small-group communication, and public presentation.
  4. Demonstrate understanding of cross-cultural communication.
  5. Understand and use business communication technology.
  6. Apply best practices in current functional business communication contexts
FORMAT
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Material will be presented primarily in the form of lectures and discussions, readings, assignments from the text and, and relevant A/V and Internet materials. Lectures will cover the points to be learned and will direct your study from the text; however, some material will be presented in class that is not in the text. Thus, you should attend class, pay attention while there, and take notes over the material. In addition to class study, you should plan on spending significant time outside of class for preparation and review. All assignments are to be completed punctually and with appropriate attention to quality. Oral and written quizzes on chapters should be expected and will be given as required

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
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Students are expected to attend class, complete assignments, and to participate in individual and group work in a productive manner.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
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SessionMorningAfternoon
1 SunN1, L1L2, N2
2 MonL3, N3L4, N4
3TueL5, N5L6, N6

Midterm
4 ThurL7, N7N8
5 FriL8, N9L9, N10
6 SatL10,N11, N12

Final

STUDENT EVALUATION


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Students are evaluated on the basis of class work, written assignments, quizzes, midterm and final exams, with grades proportionate to the following values:




Content

Points

Percent

Attendance & Class Participation

35

16%

Summaries, Maps, Projects

50

23%

Quizzes /tests /exercises

50

23%

Papers

50

23%

Presentations

35

16%

Totals

220

100%



Percent

Letter Grade

90-100

A

80-89

B

70-79

C

60-69

D

Below 60

F

Welcome

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