#BU-02-31 What is Leadership?
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
Deakin UniversityDescription
Why join the course?
Investigate leaders and leadership to improve your effectiveness as a leader.
In this course, we look to answer the question: ‘What is leadership?’ First, we explore two fundamental perspectives on leadership: leader as a person and leadership as a practice. Secondly, we examine the difference between leadership and management so you can determine whether you are a leader in a management role, a leader without a management role, or a manager who needs to become a leader.
By exploring sources of power and influence, and how perception shapes behaviour, you will be able to address important issues more effectively.
This thought-provoking course will help you discover more about yourself and others.
What topics will you cover?
This thought-provoking course will help to discover more about yourself and others as we explore:
- why leadership is different to management
- what effective leadership is
- what types of power are needed to be a leader
- how you can influence other people at work
- how individual differences shape the way people see leadership.
Who will you learn with?
Joe has combined consultancy and University lecturing for over 20 years, specialising in leadership, Governance and strategy, and organisational behaviour.
Dr Andrea North-Samardzic is a Lecturer in the Department of Management at Deakin Business School. She teaches in the MBA and other postgraduate programs and researches contemporary leadership issues
Who developed the course?
Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.
What Will I Learn?
- Explain what leadership means
- Investigate leader role models and what they represent
- Explore how you and others around you use personal power
- Investigate the effect that individual differences have on leadership
- Identify how leadership thinking has changed over the years
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Getting started
Let’s get started00:02:23
Learning online with Deakin00:02:49
How do you define leadership?
Who do you see as a leader?
What is leadership?
After watching this course, I deeply reflect on whether I, as a leader, have a good understanding of my subordinates and set an example to influence their work.
Through this course, I have learned what rights a leader needs and how to be an effective leader. It was a great benefit.
We always think that leadership is management, but the two are very different. This course is about what the difference is between leadership and management. It's a great course.
I don't think I'm a good leader, just a newcomer. This course is very good. Put me in a position to lead again. Improve your effectiveness as a leader.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course will assist busy professionals who already have management responsibilities and experience but need to expand their knowledge and capabilities in leading organisations.