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Online Course

Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power

via Open2Study

Found in Leadership, Management & Leadership

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Provider Open2Study
Cost Free Online Course
Session Finished
Language English
Start Date
Duration 4 weeks long
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Overview

Leadership; Identity, Influence and Power, examine the recent research in social psychology and business to provide you with the practical guidelines and actions that will help you develop and sustain your leadership.
To understand why leadership is so popular a topic we begin with a close examination of the “Romance of Leadership” – the myths of leadership and the tendency to misattribute organisational outcomes to great leadership. We’ll also look at the history and underpinnings of much leadership theorising to understand the ideas of power, authority and charisma.
In later modules we explore the dominant leadership theories and the need for a new approach to leadership. Under this new psychology of leadership – also known as the Social Identity theory of Leadership - we uncover 4 rules for leadership built upon an understanding of group psychological processes rather than the individual psychology of leaders.
We conclude with the key skills and practices of leadership – skills and practices that you can learn and perfect. To help you with this, you will work on your own leadership development plan.

What will I learn?

Describe the problem of attribution error in discussing leadership
Explain the key differences and similarities between the major leadership theories
Describe the relationship between leaders and followers
Explain the differences between having power through others and power over others
Explain the 4 rules for effective leadership
Understand how to apply the 3 practices of leadership
Describe when, how and why leadership fails

Where could this lead me?

If you're wondering what your future could look like in this area, here are some potential careers you could head towards.

Leadership and supervisory roles in public and private sectors
Sports leadership
Social work

Syllabus

MODULE 1: THE ROMANCE OF LEADERSHIP
MODULE 2: LEADERSHIP THEORIES
MODULE 3: LEADER AND FOLLOWERS
MODULE 4: THE PRACTICE OF LEADERSHIP

Taught by

Randal Tame

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Apostolos K

5 years ago

Apostolos completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.

Nice, short, course on the topic. Follows the open2study format which at times seems constraining. Discussions are quite dependent on who else is in the course.

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