Sports Leadership and Ignatian-based Ethics

3 credits

Sports leadership based on Ignatian ethics helps individuals, teams, and organizations realize high achievement with integrity and compassion. In this course coaches, managers in sport, and student athletes study Ignatian values and how they inform leadership tasks: determining mission, values, and goals; communicating for positive impact; developing and motivating teams; identifying individual and organizational strengths; and in times of constant change, adapting to it and managing organizations through it. Assignments will include a leadership log and a paper and presentation about leaders whom the students identify as role models. Students will also initiate a leadership goal that they will present to the class and then write a paper applying concepts from the course. Students will also practice a range of leadership exercises and discuss current case studies.