Leadership and followership: Online Course from OpenLearn

This free course, Leadership and followership, will help you to explore what makes a good leader, recognise common leadership challenges, and identify the skills you need to develop if you want to ...

Syllabus

- Introduction and guidance
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
- Acknowledgements
- Week1Week 1: Where are you starting from?
- Introduction
- 1 Definitions
- 1.1 Defining leadership
- 1.2 Defining followership
- 2 Are leadership and management different or the same?
- 3 Reviewing your own leadership experience
- 4 Identifying your aims
- 5 Making time for this course
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week2Week 2: What kind of leader could you be?
- Introduction
- 1 Leadership theory – a brief history
- 2 Leadership context
- 2.1 Cross-cultural context
- 2.2 Generational context
- 3 What is leadership style?
- 4 A closer look at leadership styles
- 5 A closer look at more leadership styles
- 6 Assessing your own leadership style
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week3Week 3: What makes a good leader?
- Introduction
- 1 Leadership skills and abilities
- 1.1 A key leadership skill: emotional intelligence
- 2 What employers look for
- 2.1 Different employers value different skills
- 3 Reviewing your leadership skills
- 4 Building your leadership experience
- 5 Keeping a leadership journal
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week4Week 4: When leadership goes wrong
- Introduction
- 1 What is poor leadership?
- 2 Defining poor or weak leadership
- 3 Exploring the impact of poor or weak leadership
- 4 Common mistakes leaders make
- 4.1 Advice for leaders
- 4.2 Advice for followers
- 5 Developing key skills
- 5.1 Lack of emotional intelligence
- 5.2 Lack of integrity
- 5.3 Lack of resilience
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week5Week 5: Why is followership important?
- Introduction
- 1 Different follower types
- 1.1 What type of follower are you?
- 2 The benefits of good followership
- 2.1 Benefits for the organisation
- 3 Can you be a leader without followers?
- 4 What do followers need?
- 5 Engaging and developing your followers
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week6Week 6: Challenges for every leader
- Introduction
- 1 Challenges for modern leaders
- 2 Building an effective team
- 2.1 Team building exercises
- 3 Dealing with internal politics
- 4 Motivating and developing staff
- 5 Leading change
- 5.1 Force field analysis
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Week7Week 7: The future of leadership
- Introduction
- 1 The impact of change
- 2 The impact of disruptive technologies
- 2.1 A case study
- 3 The impact of collaboration
- 4 Emerging leadership styles
- 4.1 Responsible leadership
- 4.2 Authentic leadership
- 4.3 Politically astute leadership
- 4.4 Case study
- 5 Sources of information/expertise to keep you up to date
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- References
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements
- Week8Week 8: Developing yourself as a leader
- Introduction
- 1 What have you learned?
- 2 Progressing your career
- 3 Planning your leadership development
- 4 Networking with the right people
- 5 Exploring training
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- Tell us what you think
- Where next?
- References
- Acknowledgements

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