This was the first official course I had in the Organizational Leadership program.  It had been a very long time since I had my last university level course.  I learned quickly the new standards that I would be required to meet in this program.  I had to ask my daughter, then a junior in high school, what APA citation meant!  I didn’t know.  I came up to speed and learned quickly. 

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Modeled off Ignatius of Loyola’s personal and spiritual transformation, this course discussed three basic questions.  These were - what are my deepest desires as a leader, including what don’t I want as a leader and what do I want as a leader?  What does this require out of me as a leader?  How does the shape who I am becoming? 

 

In this course we developed our first pass (to be reviewed and finalized again in the capstone and presented below as an artifact) Leadership Philosophy. 

 

Discussion boards from our readings and postings of referred articles on leadership introduced me to the arena of open and honest communication with my classmates.  Online. 

 

Readings from Paulo Freire, P.G. Northouse, Parker Palmer, and Gonzaga’s own Dr. Michael Carey challenged me in ways I had not ever been challenged before. 

 

This course was an explosive introduction to the ORGL program and encouraged be to carry on in development as a leader.

 

The representative artifact for ORGL 600 - Foundations of Leadership in my published leadership philosophy.