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    Leadership Practice
    Leadership Practice
    Leadership Practice
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    Leadership Practice

    By Janet Sayers

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    Leadership Practice' presents an introduction to the topic of Leadership. A feature of this book is its focus on leadership self-development. Study questions are provided throughout the book. Topics covered include definitions of different approaches to leadership, and contemporary leadership dilemmas including leadership and the rise of social media, women in leadership, and practical wisdom. This book is accompanied by a Quiz at Quizlet to help students learn basic concepts about leadership and a blog with extra resources.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanet Sayers
    Release dateNov 8, 2018
    ISBN9780463377345
    Leadership Practice
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    Janet Sayers

    Associate Professor Janet G Sayers is an experienced educator and researcher. She writes about story-telling and narrative in business and has developed many unique resources that can be used in classrooms around the world.

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      Leadership Practice - Janet Sayers

      Leadership Practice

      by Janet G. Sayers

      Number Six in the 'Interface: Cases, Essays and Stories for Use in Business Education' Series

      Copyright 2018 Janet Sayers,

      An OCTOPUS publication

      Smashwords Edition

      ‘Leadership Practice' presents an introduction to the topic of Leadership. A feature of this book is its focus on leadership self-development. Study questions are provided throughout the book. Topics covered include definitions of different approaches to leadership, and contemporary leadership dilemmas including leadership and the rise of social media, women in leadership, and practical wisdom. This book is accompanied by Quizzes at Quizlet to help students learn basic concepts about leadership, and a blog with extra resources.

      The book series ‘Interface: Cases, Essays and Stories for Use in Business Education' is developed from real classrooms and from the research of Associate Professor Janet G. Sayers. Cases, essays and stories can be adapted for use in any educational setting: primary, secondary or tertiary.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter One: The Everyday World of Leadership

      Chapter Two: Something Happened – Crisis of Leadership

      Chapter Three: And Then … The Internet

      Chapter Four: And Then … Diversity

      Chapter Five: And Finally … We Step Up

      Resources

      Other Books in the ‘Interface’ Series

      About Associate Professor Janet Sayers

      Connect

      Introduction

      Purpose

      This book presents a Leadership Practice course. This Introduction is addressed to teachers and Chapters One to Five are written to address learners.

      This course will introduce learners to key leadership concepts but the focus is on real-world cases of leadership using values-based leadership.

      By the end of this course learners should be able to:

      1. Develop an understanding of leadership history and key emerging perspectives.

      2. Critically analyse some approaches to leadership, especially values-based process-oriented approaches to leadership.

      3. Assess how diversity impacts on leadership processes and outcomes.

      4. Apply personal development tools and techniques to own self-development as leaders.

      Structure

      The course consists of five classes of 1-2 hours duration designed using a simple universal story structure:

      1. Once upon a time … The Everyday World of Leadership

      2. Something happened … Crisis of Leadership

      3. And then … The Internet

      4. And then … Diversity

      5. Until finally … We Step Up

      In Chapter One, 'The Everyday World of Leadership' we look at how leadership is commonly discussed in practice, popular literature and the academic literature. These three ways of understanding leadership help us understand some ways that leadership is defined, contested as a concept, and some of the critical issues that we face when studying and practicing leadership. On a personal level learners are asked to identify their long-term goals and are introduced to two complementary techniques for keeping focused on long-term goals while helping them be better at getting the right tasks done the right way.

      In Chapter Two, 'Something Happened ...The Crisis of Leadership', we look at the rise of authoritarian leadership. We also look at shared leadership models and servant leadership. We develop our critical thinking skills by discussing real-life cases. On a personal level learners locate themselves as leaders, and as potential leaders, by starting to define where they are and where they want to go in their own leadership journeys.

      In Chapter Three, 'And Then ... The Internet' we look at emergent leadership and other forms of leadership facilitated by social media and digitalisation. We look more closely at values-based leadership, and leader-less leadership. On a personal level we focus on developing self-awareness

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