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The Open University

Collective leadership

The Open University via OpenLearn

Overview

This free course, Collective leadership, will give you an insight into the importance of how to be a more effective leader, and how to better engage and work with ‘followers’ in an organisational setting. It considers the ‘heroic’ leader of the past and how leadership studies historically focused on the individual. It then builds on what is meant by Collective Leadership, using real-life case studies as examples.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 What is leadership?
  • 1 What is leadership?
  • 2 Individual leadership versus collective leadership
  • 2 Individual leadership versus collective leadership
  • 2.1 Working collaboratively
  • 2.2 An example of collective leadership
  • 2.3 Case study 1
  • 3 Leadership practices to promote collective leadership
  • 3 Leadership practices to promote collective leadership
  • 3.1 The Collective Canyon
  • 3.2 Collective leadership in practice
  • 3.3 Collective leadership is not easy!
  • 3.4 Case Study 2
  • Conclusion
  • Tell us what you think
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Acknowledgements

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4.5 rating at OpenLearn based on 17 ratings

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    B. Jawahar Lal
    Good content based videos but needed much more detailed explanation.
    Explanation with clear definitions will help to get the idea very easy.

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