What is Leadership?
Leadership is often misunderstood due to its complex nature. Learn what being a leader means and how you can practice leadership.
Who is the course for?
This course will assist busy professionals who already have management responsibilities and experience but need to expand their knowledge and capabilities in leading organisations.
Take your learning to the next stage
This course is a free introduction to a Deakin University postgraduate degree in Leadership which can be done entirely on FutureLearn
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.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
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
