Library Research Guides: LEAD 3000 Foundations of Leadership (Rosemond): Welcome

Welcome

Welcome to LEAD 3000! This course guide serves as a landing page to help you learn about library resources.

Please feel free to reach out to your Business Liaison, Barb Mann, to talk about aspects of your research.

For this course, you need the textbook Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie. Kaufman Library has three copies of this book (2 in the General Collection, 1 in Popular Nonfiction). You can check these out, but not for the entire semester. Here's our circulation policy information:

GGC Students:

GGC Books: 28 days with two renewals
GGC Popular Fiction/Nonfiction Collection: 14 days with one renewal

Strengths Based Leadership by Tom Rath; Barry Conchie
Call Number: HM1261 .R38 2008 and POP NONF RATH
ISBN: 9781595620255
Publication Date: 2009-01-06
Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. More than 3 million people have since taken Gallup's StrengthsFinder assessment, which forms the core of several books on this topic, including the #1 international bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0. In recent years, while continuing to learn more about strengths, Gallup scientists have also been examining decades of data on the topic of leadership. They studied more than 1 million work teams, conducted more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with leaders and even interviewed more than 10,000 followers around the world to ask exactly why they followed the most important leader in their life. In Strengths Based Leadership, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath and renowned leadership consultant Barry Conchie reveal the results of this research. Based on their discoveries, the book identifies three keys to being a more effective leader: knowing your strengths and investing in others' strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership. A unique access code allows you to take a new leadership version of Gallup's StrengthsFinder program. The new version of this program provides you with specific strategies for leading with your top five strengths and enables you to plot the strengths of your team based on the four domains of leadership strength revealed in the book.

Professional Expectations

Professional Expectations

With the large number of students in the class, it is important to have a classroom environment that supports learning for everyone. In addition, these guidelines are provided in an effort to enhance your professional development and begin to practice behaviors that will be expected of you as professionals in the world of work. This means that:

Come to class prepared and mentally engaged
Do not insult other people or make disparaging comments. You can disagree with someone’s ideas or statements in a tactful and polite manner without making derogatory comments
Do not use profanity
Let me know ahead of time if you will be absent, late or need to leave early
Do not hold side discussions with your classmates except when working on a group assignment. This is very distracting to everyone else in the class and may cause the class to be held longer than necessary
No reading or working on anything except the material in this class
Do NOT put your head on the desk (sleeping)
If you come to class late, enter quietly and take a seat near the door. Do not walk in front of the class.
Utilize technology only for classroom purposes, and put cellphones on meeting mode until class is over
Be respectful to others in the classroom (professor and peers)
Do not behave in a way that is disruptive
Pick up after yourself
To protect your privacy and to maintain order in the classroom, please come and see me in private if you are upset with someone or something that has occurred in class
If you use your laptop during class, it is ONLY to be used for class activities for this course, such as taking notes. You should NOT be doing any non-class activities on your laptop during class time.