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What qualities and skills do educational leaders need? How can these skills best be developed online? This interactive presentation looks at the development of an online course in leadership and teamwork for project managers and other leaders. It analyses the decisions we took in identifying the key competences, in devising a teaching/learning approach, and in combining the two.
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Leading questions. Leading answers.
Sue Leather & Andy HockleyIATEFL, Liverpool 2013
What is leadership? Which leadership skills are most crucial for project managers?
What decisions did we make about teaching leadership online?
What are the results in terms of the course?
Overview
Think of someone who you consider to be an excellent leader.
What qualities do they have that makes them such a good leader?
Share with one or two others, and make a list of qualities of a leader.
What is leadership?
Qualities of a Leader
listener honesttrustworthy trusting
charismatic visionarydecisive communicates well
“walks the talk”inspiring a mentor
stronginvolves people integrity
open loyaltycommitment wisdom compassion
Why is leadership important?Leadership is required […] to learn from unpredictable outcomes […], and to try to keep both the detail and big picture in view all the time.
Underhill 2005
Leadership and management overlap
"Leadership is more about change, inspiration, setting the purpose and direction, and building the enthusiasm, unity and 'staying-power' for the journey ahead.
Management is less about change, and more about stability and making the best use of resources to get things done.
But here is the key point: leadership and management are not separate. And they are not necessarily done by different people. It's not a case of, 'You are either a manager or a leader'. Leadership and management overlap..."
(From The Three Levels of Leadership, J Scouller, 2011)
achieving the task managing the team or group managing individuals
Action-Centred Leadership
“Leadership is a series of choices and actions around defining and achieving a goal” (Scouller, 2011)
Focus on what leaders do (functional) rather than how they should be (trait-based)
Leadership as process
Motivating Purpose Task, Progress,
Results
Upholding Group Unity
Attention to Individuals
4 dimensions of leadership"Leadership is a process that involves:
• setting a purpose and direction which inspires people to combine and work towards willingly;
• paying attention to the means, pace and quality of progress towards the aim
• upholding group unity• attending to
individual effectiveness throughout."
3 levels of leadership (3P)
Public: In group setting, or in wider organisation
Private: One-to-one interactions
Personal: Self (development, growth, understanding, reflection, self-mastery)
Focus on key leadership behaviours, but also goes further – looking at skills and knowledge underlying the behaviour, and how to learn them
Also looks at psychology of leaders and has strong focus on self-mastery
What leaders do
Which leadership skills are most crucial for project managers?
Start from real, shared experience Reflect on experience Variety of task Theoretical input Focussed, quality discussion Participants need to break the ice early on
What decisions did we make about teaching leadership online?
Starting from experience
1. An experience (Concrete Experience)
2. You reflect upon it and make observations (Reflective Observation)
3. You draw theories and generalisations from that (Abstract Conceptualisation)
4. You think about how you will apply that in the future (Active Experimentation)
Simulation and subsequent reflection Creating collaborative documents (e.g.
wikis) Read and discuss Watch a presentation and discuss Action planning
What kind of tasks?
Have you ever worked in any team that seemed to lack leadership? What can you say about that? How did this problem manifest itself? Was the problem addressed? How?
Share your thoughts with a partner.
Task
Pre-course: Online getting to know you tasks
Week 1 : You participate in a team task - What happened? What was your role?
Week 2 : We look further at the team task, extrapolating ideas about team formation, team roles and teamwork in general, & looking at some theories and principles regarding this. How might you apply this to your work as a team leader and team member?
Week 3 : We return to the reflections on the task and think about what it can tell us about leadership. We discuss leadership and management (and how they differ), and the skills involved in both.
Week 4 : How this can be applied? What skills and competences you want to develop further? How you might go about that? Action Planning.
What are the results?
Course on Moodle
An understanding of the qualities that make a good leader
A deeper understanding of which specific leadership skills you need to develop
A deeper understanding of how to lead a team effectively
The ability to apply theories of leadership to leadership practice
The ability to apply your learning from the course in your work life
Take aways
What is leadership? Which leadership skills are most crucial for project managers?
What decisions did we make about teaching leadership online?
What are the results in terms of the course?
Overview
Thank you!
