LPV implies taking a proactive stance toward the world and learning skills that will allow one to carve out a niche in the world which, with six and a half billion people and growing, is becoming increasingly difficult. These same four levels of learning will be expected of you throughout the course with the frameworks that are introduced in each module. Some of you may seek to remain with the frameworks you now have on THIS side of learning what the course has to present. However, the course will invite you and expect you to explore the set of frameworks you now hold and have incorporated into your world view from your past experience, to add new frameworks, and to develop a new set of personal incorporations by the end of the year. In this sense, First Year Organizational Behavior is decidedly much more than applying the common sense you have developed thus far in life.
Leadership eventually boils down to influencing others.
The Leading Others module will focus on the dynamics and nature of interpersonal understanding and influence. Here, you will be introduced to a view on why people behave the way they do, a way of seeing more clearly what s happening in relationships and interactions, and a framework for clarifying individual behavior. The course recognizes that there have been many models of human behavior that have come and gone. Your challenge in the course will be to examine your personal model of human behavior, to extend and amplify it with the material presented in the course, and to try those extensions in your various activities at the school including your learning team relationships. This module provides a basic foundation for the required leadership elective program of the Second Year.