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Leadership continued

The one-day course explores
participants’ personal style of
responding both to people and
tasks, the consequences of their
inter-personal style, and typical
reactions to stress and pressure.

"There’s a lot of pressure in
the social service world,” says
Mowat. "When we’re under
pressure and we have to deal
with a lot of variables... people
experience tension and can take
it out on each other." But in-
stead of doing that, try
understanding each other’s
needs, she suggests.

Everyone shares a basic set of
needs on the job, Mowat says.
People want to feel valued and
worthwhile, and want to know

WM erry Loughrey, ESL facul-
ty, spent three months this
summer as a visiting scholar at
Douglas College’s sister univer-
sity in Japan, Momoyama
Gakuin University (or St.
Andrew’s University). Douglas
has been involved in short-term
summer programs since 1982
and eight-month programs since
1987 with Momoyama for their
students, but Terry’s stay at
Momoyama was our first
reciprocation. He spent two
months in a College Preparatory
Japanese Language class, in
which the next oldest student
was twenty years younger than
him. All the foreign students in
that class had been in Japan for
two to three years, so the level
and the pace were gruelling for
Terry. His third month was

 

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they make a difference on the
job.

The workshop will give
people an opportunity to
develop a plan to increase per-
sonal style and flexibility. And
this will result in improved

 

CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
_ Faculty Visits Momoyama University

spent co-teaching an intensive
language and orientation
program for Momoyama stu-
dents who will study at Douglas
and other institutions overseas.

Terry returned with glowing
reports. He was pleasantly

surprised by the intimacy of con-

tact between Momoyama
students and their Japanese in-
structors, in spite of huge
classes. Other virtues: smooth
operational administration; ex-
cellent faculty atmosphere; a
community of fine intellectual
minds; a genuine interest
(among students, faculty and

staff alike) in the individual; and

a concrete sense of growth and

expansion, as Momoyama’s new

Faculty of Literature takes
shape, and as their International

 

 

 

relationships, more effective
communications and increased
productivity.

Barb Mowat has 15 years ex-
perience as a vocational
counsellor, community program-

7 mer, university lecturer and as a

management and training con-
sultant to business, government,

~ health, human services and

educational sectors.

Understanding Your
Leadership Style is scheduled
for Thursday, October 20, 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Call Community
Programs at 520-5479 for more
information.

Centre arranges exchanges in
Korea, China, Hawaii, England
and of course Canada. The train-
ing of Japanese Language
instructors, and the teaching of
the Japanese language, are also
growth areas.

Getting back wasn’t exactly
an undiluted pleasure for Terry,
who misses his new friends and
colleagues across the Pacific.
To make matters a little easier,
though, one of them is at
Douglas College this semester
and next. Mr. Toru Miyake, an
Associate Professor of English
and Linguistics at Momoyama,
is a visiting scholar this year
with us.

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