Visionary leadership, identity & motivation: Become a meaning maker
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Course Summary
This course on visionary leadership and meaning-making will help you develop your skills and become a better leader. You'll learn how to inspire and motivate people, create a vision for your organization, and make a positive impact on the world.Key Learning Points
- Understand the importance of meaning-making in leadership
- Learn how to create and communicate a compelling vision
- Develop skills to inspire and motivate your team
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Develop skills to create and communicate a compelling vision
- Understand the importance of meaning-making in leadership
- Learn how to inspire and motivate your team
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- Basic understanding of leadership
- Willingness to learn and grow
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Online
- Self-paced
- Video lectures
Similar Courses
- Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- The Art of Leadership
- Strategic Leadership and Management
Related Education Paths
Notable People in This Field
- Simon Sinek
- Brené Brown
Related Books
Description
When faced with a complex and ambiguous work environment, how do you, as a potential leader, envision the future? How can you deliver on your vision in a way that conveys meaning and drives positive change within your organisation? In this course you will explore how leaders can create a compelling vision and communicate it, and how they create meaning and make work more meaningful. You will look at the role the brain and the body play in processing meaning, and how this can inspire your employees to follow you and your vision. This course will also teach you how to develop meaningful brand identity and the role it can play in clarifying and reinforcing your leadership vision within your organisation, for your partners and for your customers. You will discover that meaning crosses into almost every aspect of management. Finally, you will better understand how social and cultural factors can influence what you can achieve and your limitations when seeking to create meaning.
Knowledge
- Evaluate approaches to influencing and creating meaning at work
- Evaluate and apply approaches to meaning making that play a role in aligning employee buy-in of organisational narratives
- Evaluate, create and apply strategies to leverage meaning making through branding
- Situate discussions of meaning making within broader social contexts and concerns.
Outline
- Meaning and making meaning
- Course welcome and introduction
- Week 1 Outline
- Meaningful work
- Work design and meaning
- Meaninglessness
- Meaning through fit
- Habit corner 1
- Course overview
- Which continent do you hail from?
- Preconceptions: What work means to you...
- Explore further resources 1
- Practice exercises 1
- About the habit corner
- Habit Corner- Sample
- Recall - Week 1
- Week 1 quiz
- Leadership and meaning making
- Week 2 Outline
- Framing
- Symbolic representation
- Rhetorical crafting
- Creating meaning through social identity
- Explore further resources 2
- Practice exercises 2
- Week 2 quiz
- Brain, body and storytelling in meaning making
- Week 3 Outline
- The neuroscience of meaning making
- Creating meaning through voice and breath
- Creating meaning through body language & posture
- Creating meaning through stories
- Explore further resources 3
- Practice exercises 3
- Week 3 quiz
- Branding as meaning making
- Week 4 Outline
- Don’t be liked, be loved!
- Be visionary
- Be meaningful: Craft brand personality
- Explore further resources 4
- Practice exercises 4
- Recall week 4
- Week 4 quiz
- Building brands
- Week 5 Outline
- Creating meaning through brand elements
- Brand logos and symbols
- Measuring and monitoring brand based meaning making
- Explore further resources 5
- Practice exercises 5
- Recall week 5
- Week 5 quiz
- Meaning in social context
- Week 6 Outline
- Managing meaning in a wider context: Alienation and work in capitalist society
- A religious 'spirit of capitalism'
- A 'new spirit of capitalism'
- Explore further resources 6
- Week 6 quiz
Summary of User Reviews
Discover the meaning of visionary leadership and become a master of it with this course on Coursera. Users have given this course great reviews, praising its practicality and applicability to real-life situations.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
Users appreciate how the course provides practical examples and actionable steps for implementing visionary leadership in their own lives and organizations.Pros from User Reviews
- Practical advice and actionable steps for real-life situations
- Engaging and informative lectures
- Great resources and materials provided
- Excellent instructor with real-world experience
- Well-structured and easy to follow
Cons from User Reviews
- Some users found the course content to be too basic
- Not ideal for those looking for a more theoretical and academic approach
- Limited interaction with other students or instructor
- No certificate or credential offered without paying additional fee
- Some technical issues with the online platform
Professor Rebecca Mitchell
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Visionary leadership, identity & motivation: Become a meaning maker
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