Leadership and followership
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  • Introduction and guidance
    • What is a badged course?
    • How to get a badge
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    • 5.1 Engagement
    • 5.2 Development
  • 6 This week’s quiz
  • 7 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 Challenges for modern leaders
  • 2 Building an effective team
    • 2.1 Team building exercises
  • 3 Motivating and developing staff
  • 4 Leading change
    • 4.1 Force field analysis
    • 4.2 Trust
  • 5 Dealing with internal politics
  • 6 This week’s quiz
  • 7 Summary
  • Introduction
  • 1 The impact of change
    • 1.1 Hybrid working
    • 1.2 Mental health and wellbeing
    • 1.3 Talent management and retention
  • 2 The impact of disruptive technologies
    • 2.1 Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • 3 The impact of collaboration
    • 3.1 Collaborative leadership
    • 3.2 Global collaboration
  • 4 Emerging leadership styles
    • 4.1 Authentic leadership
    • 4.2 Politically astute leadership
    • 4.3 Is there a future for leadership as we know it?
    • 4.4 Case study
  • 5 Sources of information/expertise to keep you up to date
  • 6 This week’s quiz
  • 7 Summary
  • 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?
  • Further reading
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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