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International Leadership: Politics and Philosophy in Leadership
Explore how leadership can find a voice in today’s world
Explore different leadership approaches and understand their importance in moulding the characteristics of leaders and followers.
Develop your understanding of the role of philosophy in leadership as you look at relevant concepts such as what is authentic leadership and how does it compare to charismatic leadership?
On this course, you’ll have the chance to examine how leadership can find a voice in today’s world. Each lesson, delivered by experts with specialist interest in the field, will provide an opportunity to develop your awareness of the leadership characteristics needed to be effective within your organisation.
Learn how to identify different leadership philosophies
This course gives you a broad overview of a number of different philosophies in leadership.
You’ll look at Path-Goal theory, the Situational Approach, the Full Range Leadership Model, and the Leader-Member Exchange Theory.
Discussing the unique characteristics of each leadership approach, you’ll gain a better understanding of how they influence an organisation’s culture and outcomes.
Use philosophy to a better leader in your organisation
Identify and discuss examples of political leaders and their leadership approaches.
You’ll use relevant case studies to explore models and concepts such as authentic leadership, charismatic leadership and transformational leadership.
You’ll also discuss how these approaches influence the various political and philosophical stances of international leaders around the world.
Syllabus
Week 1
A Closer Look at Leadership Theories
The situational approach
Welcome to the fourth short course in this module on international leadership.
Path-goal theory
Find out how path-goal theory helps leaders motivate their team to achieve their objectives.
Leader-member exchange theory
Explore how this theory of leadership is a bit different to those we've looked at so far.
Week 2
How Authentic and Charismatic a Leader Are You?
Authentic leadership
Discover what makes an authentic leader and whether you have the capacity to be one.
Charismatic leadership
Examine charismatic leadership by exploring the work of Gandhi as a case study
Transformational leadership
Here we look at transformational leadership as an example of how a leadership philosophy can influence the wider organisation.
Leadership in politics
Consider how the concepts we've examed in the past few weeks apply within the field of politics.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Identify and discuss the situational approach, path-goal theory and leader-member exchange theory
- Discuss charismatic and transformational leadership
- Explore and evaluate authentic leadership
- Identify and discuss some examples of political leaders and their leadership approaches
Who is the course for?
This course is for those wanting to progress into a leadership role, and those looking for leadership skills as part of their continued professional development.
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For your first month. Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
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- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$54/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
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Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 21 Dec 2024
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
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