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Contemporary Leadership

Overview

Contemporary Leadership is designed to enable experienced managers and leaders to further develop knowledge of what it is to lead and be led in a contemporary global environment characterised by unprecedented change and uncertainty.

Designed For

This program has been developed for senior managers who have an undergraduate degree in a professional discipline or substantial managerial experience.

Content

• Leaders and organizations
  
• The nature and importance of leadership
  
• Traits, motives and characteristics of leaders
  
• Charismatic, transformational and ethical leadership
  
• Contingency and situational leadership
  
• Innovative and entrepreneurial leadership
  
• Power, politics and influence tactics
  
• Influencing teams
  
• Strategic leadership and change
  
• Leading in global and culturally diverse contexts
  
• Different generations and genders
  
• Leadership development and succession planning
  

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the nature and importance of leadership in a contemporary global environment
  
• Describe and analyse trait, characteristics and behaviours of leaders in a contemporary global environment
  
• Develop the skill of self exploration and reflective practice,
  
• Describe and apply theoretical frameworks to understand leadership.
  
• Analyse leadership in terms of the dynamic interaction between the leader, group members and the internal and external environment
  
• Understand and analyse charismatic, transformational and ethical leadership
  
• Explore and analyse innovative and entrepreneurial leadership.
  
• Understand and deploy a range of influence strategies
  
• Investigate the role of the leader in influencing the effectiveness of teams
  
• Understand the nature of strategic leadership and the link between strategic leadership and change
  
• Understand and analyse leadership in global and culturally diverse contexts
  
• Understand and analyse leadership and development of individuals of different generations and genders
  
• Explore and analyse and develop systems and plans for leadership development with particular emphasis on self management and personal mastery
  

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