Course Summary
This course on Leadership will teach you how to adapt your leadership style to different situations and personalities. You will learn to become a more effective leader by understanding your own strengths and weaknesses and how to leverage them.Key Learning Points
- Understand your own leadership style and how to adapt it to different situations
- Learn to communicate effectively with different personalities
- Discover how to motivate and inspire your team to achieve their goals
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Learning Outcomes
- Understand your own leadership style and how to adapt it to different situations
- Communicate effectively with different personalities
- Motivate and inspire your team to achieve their goals
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- No prior knowledge or experience is required
- A willingness to learn and improve your leadership skills
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Self-paced online course
- Video lectures
- Quizzes and assignments
- Peer-reviewed assessments
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- Business Leadership and Management Certificate
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Description
Why are organisational misbehaviours such as cynicism, apathy, bullying and disengagement increasingly prevalent in the workplace? This course examines these tensions and how transformational, authentic and inclusive leadership styles offer an alternative to the more autocratic, job-centred and controlling leadership styles of the past. You’ll learn how the digital revolution, along with an increased focus on projects and teamwork, has dramatically altered the perception of leadership in a way that now demands all organisational members take on some form of self-leadership. And you’ll learn how this change is causing tensions between traditional leaders and the contemporary practices vital to maintain agility in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace. This learning will be complemented by structured activities such as video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments.
Knowledge
- Critically evaluate the similarities and differences between traditional and contemporary theories of leadership
- Examine the complexities and challenges of day-to-day organisational life might require agile shifts between different leadership styles
- Analyse how post-industrial forms of participative and self-organising leadership might enable or disable effective cross-functional teamwork
Outline
- The Leadership Challenge
- Course welcome and introduction
- Week 1 Outline
- The importance of leadership
- The messy practice of leadership
- Leadership traits
- Leader needs - follower motivation
- Leadership styles
- Leadership grid
- Habit corner
- Course overview
- Learning activities and assessment
- Which continent do you hail from?
- Preconceptions: Which leadership style is best?
- Explore further resources 1
- Assignment 1 Discussion questions
- About the habit corner
- Recall: Traits, personality, attitudes, behaviour, motivation
- Week 1 quiz
- The Practices of Individual Leadership
- Week 2 Outline
- Contingency leadership models
- Organisational power
- Formal and informal leadership networks
- Explore further resources 2
- Assignment 1 Discussion questions
- Recall: practice of individual leadership
- Week 2 quiz
- Leading Teams
- Week 3 Outline
- The rise of the team
- The role of leaders
- The role of followers
- Leading with psychological safety
- Teams and the future of work
- Become a Global MBA learner
- Explore further resources 3
- Practice exercises 3
- Week 3 quiz
- Leading the Organisation
- Week 4 Outline
- Charisma and transformational leaders
- Qualities of an ideal charismatic leader
- The dimensions of authentic leadership
- Explore further resources 4
- Practice exercises 4
- Recall: Charismatic, transformational, and authentic leadership
- Week 4 quiz
- Leadership and Ambiguity
- Week 5 Outline
- The 7 stages of leadership transformation: Part 1
- The 7 stages of leadership transformation: Part 2
- The adaptive leadership model: Part 1
- The adaptive leadership model: Part 2
- Explore further resources 5
- Practice exercises 5
- Week 5 quiz
- Critical, Pragmatic, and Popular Perspectives on Leadership
- Week 6 Outline
- Leaders behaving badly
- Leadership profiles
- Jeffrey Pfeffer's 'Leadership BS'
- The complexities of leadership
- Explore further resources 6
- Practice exercises 6
- Recall: Critical, pragmatic, and popular leadership
- Week 6 quiz
Summary of User Reviews
This course on Leadership focuses on adapting one's style to different situations. The reviews for this course are generally positive, with users praising the practical applications of the course material.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
Many users found the practical exercises and case studies to be particularly helpful in understanding how to apply the concepts presented in the course.Pros from User Reviews
- Practical exercises and case studies provide real-world applications of the course material
- Instructors are knowledgeable and engaging
- Course content is well-organized and easy to follow
- Course provides valuable insights into different leadership styles
- Course material is relevant and up-to-date
Cons from User Reviews
- Some users found the course material to be too basic
- Course may not be suitable for those with extensive leadership experience
- Some users felt that the course did not provide enough opportunities for interaction with instructors and other students
- Course may not be applicable to all industries or sectors
- Some users found the pace of the course to be too slow
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