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Leadership and followership
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Liz Smith.

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Week 1

Images

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Figure 2: Dilbert by Scott Adams (Universal Uclick.com)

Figure 3: © PaulPaladin/iStockphoto.com

Figure 5: © Lyndon Smith

Tables

Table 1: adapted from Gill, R. (2006) ‘Introduction’, Theory and Practice of Leadership, 3rd edn, London, SAGE Publications Ltd.

Week 2

Images

Figure 1: © Lyndon Smith

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Figure 3: © Rawpixel/iStockphoto.com

Figure 4 © Lyndon Smith

Figure 5: Photograph © A-Shropshire-Lad/iStockphoto.com

Figure 6: © photograph of South African currency: sandr2002/iStockphoto.com

Figure 7: photograph: © luchezar/iStockphoto.com trademark: Facebook®

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Audio-visual

Different ways to lead: courtesy of Mind Tools www.MindTools.com

Tables

Table 2: extract from: http://www.ey.com/ us/ en/ issues/ talent-management/ talent-survey-members-of-each-generation-perceived-characteristics http://www/ ey.com

Week 3

Images

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Figure 2: photograph: © Henrique NDR Martins/Getty Images

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Figure 6: © Lyndon Smith

Figure 7: adapted from Gibbs reflective cycle, from Gibbs, G. (1988) Learning by Doing: A Guide to Teaching and Learning Methods, Further Education Unit, Oxford, Oxford Polytechnic

Week 4

Images

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Figure 2: photograph © georgeclerk/iStockphoto.com,trademark for toys owned by Lucasfilms Ltd: LLC

Figure 3: Brainmaster/iStockphoto.com

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Week 5

Images

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Figure 3: © Stratol/iStockphoto.com

Figure 4: © atakan/iStockphoto.com

Figure 5: Keep-calm.net

Audio-visual

First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ courtesy Derek Sivers

Week 6

Images

Figure 1: © DanielPrudek/iStockphoto.com

Figure 2: © PeopleImages/iStockphoto.com

Figure 4: adapted from Gibbs reflective cycle, from Gibbs, G. (1988) Learning by Doing: A Guide to Teaching and Learning Methods, Further Education Unit, Oxford, Oxford Polytechnic

Figure 5: © Lyndon Smith

Figure 6: tang90246/Shutterstock.com

Figure 8: courtesy of Kotter International https://www.kotterinternational.com

Audio-visual

Force Field Analysis: Courtesy: Mind Tools www.MindTools.com

Week 7

Images

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Figure 5: © goir/iStockphoto.com

Audio-visual

The future of leadership: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=SeMHk54QC0k courtesy: The Marketing Academy

Tables

Table 1: extract from: McKinsey Global Institute Report ‘Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy’, 2013 http://www.mckinsey.com/

Table 2: Archer, D. and Cameron, A. (2013) ‘Chapter 12. The future collaborative leader’, in Collaborative Leadership: Building Relationships, Handling Conflict and Sharing Control, 2nd edn. Routledge.

Week 8

Text

Activity 6: adapted from Hart, L. B. and Waisman, C. S. (2004) The Leadership Training Activity Book: 50 Exercises for Building Effective Leaders, US, Amacom, pp. 11–15

Images

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