LEI 4300 Leisure Services Faculty: William M. Healey
Department: Health, Leisure and Sports
Semester Hours: 3
Term:

Course Objectives	Evaluation
Assignments	Grading
Bibliography	Outline

Course Objective
From playground to boardroom
Upon completion of this course, student will be able to:

A. Identify the various types of leadership positions that exist in the field of recreation and park administration.
B. Understand the origins, processes and structure necessary to be an effective leader.
C. Utilize different leadership strategies in recognizing and developing your personal style.
D. Know how to improve quality, productivity, and employee satisfaction.
E. Understand the role that empowerment plays in the process of morale building and motivation.
F. Increase creativity and participation in group meetings involving problem-solving and/or fact-finding tasks.
G. Perform as an organized game leader.
H. Complete recreation and park agency budgets along with a formal presentation and defense.
I. Develop a risk management plan.

Assignments
A. Working Budget Preparation Report
Each class member shall be assigned a working Budget to prepare. The Budget shall be prepared in writing.
Copies of the Budget shall be prepared for each class member to be included in their respective leaders' program workbook.

The Budgets should be prepared in the following order:
Priority cut list
List of incomes (from taxes and other sources)
Total of expenses
Statement of anticipated balance
Itemization of expenses
Total of income
Statement of anticipated balance

It shall include an historical, a fringe benefit, a salary justification, and fee schedules. The Budget shall be prepared for a community of 200,000 people. The community has 10 high schools, 10 middle schools, 50 grade schools (separate from parks), 40 playgrounds, 10 indoor pools at the high schools, 8 outdoor pools, a 400 acre lake, 20 TOT lots, 175 acres of beach front property on the Gulf and 18 miles of unused shoreline.

A copy of your budget shall be prepared for each class member.

Each class member shall present his Budget at a simulated board meeting.

B. Resume and Job Interview
Each class member shall prepare a resume on themself (one copy) and participate in a mock job interview that will be taped. A 1-2 page critique on "How I would improve my job marketability and interviewing skills" will be due 1 week after the interview.

C. Mid-term exam
The "In-Basket" take home exame must be completed and turned in on date assigned. See outline.

D. Risk Management
A risk management audit and assessment will be completed on a recreation sports are of campus. Due according to class outline.
A written plan conducting a softball tournament with risk management consideration will be completed as a group project.

E. Personal Best Leadership Experience Complete Personal Best exercise by date in course outline.

F. Final Exam.

Evaluation

New Games Participation	10
Resume	5
Interview	5
Critique	5
Risk Management Assessment	5
Risk Management Softball	5
Mid-term Exam	5
Budget Preparation	15
Budget Presentation	15
Personal Best Exercise	5
Class Participation	10
Final Exam	15
Total Available Points	100

Grading

Grading Scale

Bibliography

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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1981.



Basadur, M., Graen, G., and Wakabayashi, M. (1990, Second Quarter)

"Identifying individual differences in creative problem solving style," The

Journal of Creative Behavior, 24, 2: 111-131.



*Bennis, W.G.  Organization Development:  Its Nature, Origins and

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Bennis, W.  Why Leaders Can't Lead.  Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1989.



Bennis, W. On Becoming A Leader.  1990.



Bennis, W. and B. Namus (1985).  Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge.

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Bernstein, Albert J., & Rozen, Sydney Craft Rozen.  Dinosaur Brains;

Dealing with all Those Impossible People at Work.  John Wiley & Sons, N.Y.,

N.Y.: 1989.



Blanchard, K. and Spencer Johnson (1981).  The One Minute Manager.  New

York, N.Y.:  Berkely Books, Inc.



Butler, George D. Introduction to Community Recreation.  4th edition, New

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Byham, William.  Zapp.  The Lightning of Empowerment.  Fawcett Columbine,

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Carolson, Reynold E., Ted Deppe and Janet McLean.  Recreation in American Life.



Cohen, William A.  The Art of the Leader.  Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,

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Covey, S.R. (1989) The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.  New York,

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Curtis, Joseph E. and Kraus, Richard G., Creative Management in Recreation,

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Francisco, CA:  1990.  



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Peters, T.J. and N.K. Austin (1985).  A Passion For Excellence.  New York,

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Schurr, E.  Movement Experience for Children.



Shaw, Marvin E.  Group Dynamics:  The Psychology of Small Group Behavior.

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Thoren, D.  "Introduction to Beliefs."  Interpersonal Effectiveness

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One night reading.



VanGundy, Arthur B. (1987) Creative Problem Solving.  New York: Quorum

Books, Chapter 5 (63-73).



Vannier, Mary Helen.  Methods and Materials in Recreation Leadership,

Revised Edition.  Belmont, California:  Washington Pub., Co., 1966.



Vecchio, Robert P. (1988).  Organizational Behavior, New York, N.Y.: The

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Walton, Mary.  The Deming Management Method.  Dodd, Mead & Co., N.Y., N.Y.:

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Recreational Sports (pp. 72-83).  Corvallis, Oregon:  National Intramural

Recreation Association.

Course Outline

	TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF COURSE TOPICS AND EXAMS






8/23	Introduction

	Change and its effect on managing Leisure Services



8/25	Review Class Outline

	Intro to New Games



8/30	New Games Play Session - Dress for Activity (54/145A)



9/1	Modes of Play - Trust, Creative Play, Software, Initiatives (54/145A)



9/5	Labor Day - No Classes



9/6	Game Change/Role of the player referee



9/8	How Do I Get a Job - Mr. Ray Thrift (54/136)



9/10 	(Saturday)	Student Development Workshop (Commons)



9/13	Interviews - Videotape - Instructional Media (#37 Studios A & B)



9/15	Interviews - Videotape - Instructional Media (#37 Studios A & B)

	Resumes Due



9/20	Introduction to Budget

	Yom Kippur



9/22	Budget Preparation



9/27	The Line Item Budget



9/29	No Class.  NIRSA State Workshop - Univ. of Florida, Gainesville



10/4	What is Leadership?

	"Personal Best" Experience







10/6	The Empowering Manager

	Vision and Common Purpose



10/11 - 10/15	No Class.  NRPA Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota

	"In Basket Exam" - Take Home



NOTE:	UWF Homecoming



10/18	Change in Organizations



10/20	Building Morale in Your Organization



10/25	Goal Setting/Time Management

	Film:  The Time of Your Life



10/27	Problem Solving

	Nominal Group Technique



11/1	Risk Management



11/3	No Class - NIRSA Region II Conference, Clemson, SC

	Group Project - NIRSA Softball Tournament



11/8	Risk Management

	Tournament Assignment Due



11/10	Risk Management

	Case Studies



NOTE: 11/10-13	UWF-PJC Flag Football Tournament



11/11	No Classes - Veterans Day



11/15	Risk Management - Assessment/Audit



11/17	Simulated Budget Hearings



NOTE: 11/18	Lunar Eclipse, 1:44 AM



11/22	Simulated Budget Hearings



11/24	No Classes.  Thanksgiving Holiday



11/29	Simulated Budget Hearings



12/1	Simulated Budget Hearings



12/5-9	Final Exam Week

	LEI 4300: Thursday, 12/8, 9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon