Overview

Discover an essential handbook for strategies, concepts, and insights into the dynamics of transformational leadership in these 24 lectures. This course offers an in-depth examination of the leadership behaviors and capabilities essential to creating positive change in teams and organizations. Filled with case studies and lessons from leaders in business, politics, sports, and the military, this lecture series serves as an authoritative guide to successful leadership.

You’ll learn why transformational leadership focuses on producing change—sometimes substantial or even radical change—unlike management, which emphasizes achieving consistent results. The course is organized into four key modules, each offering a focused look at a particular aspect of leadership:

• Models of Leadership: Critical issues such as human behavior and long-term goals.

• The Change Process: Resistance to change and ways to institutionalize it.

• Critical Skills and Capabilities: Motivation, persuasion, negotiation, and teamwork.

• Creativity, Innovation, and Learning: From after-action reviews to systems thinking and mentoring.

Taken together, these lectures are a stirring call to responsible leadership and a learning experience that’s as informative as it is inspiring.

Video Lessons

01: The Challenge

• Duration: 33 min

• Description: Explore the need for stronger, transformational leaders in today’s world and the principles behind situational and adaptive leadership.

02: Portrait of a Transformation

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Analyze Jack Welch’s tenure at GE to define effective leadership and distinguish between leaders and managers.

03: Do Great Leaders Share the Same Traits?

• Duration: 28 min

• Description: Investigate three perspectives on leadership: traits, behavior, and power-influence.

04: How Much Does Context Matter?

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Examine theories of leadership effectiveness based on contextual variables.

05: Charismatic and Transformational Leadership

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Unpack the role of charisma in effective leadership and its impact on transformational and transactional leaders.

06: Resistance and Reactions to Change

• Duration: 30 min

• Description: Learn how to help others embrace change and avoid the dangers of threat rigidity.

07: Phases of Transformation

• Duration: 32 min

• Description: Investigate the change process using the “unfreeze-change-freeze” model and an eight-step model for developing change.

08: Harnessing Emotion

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Explore the linked roles of reason and emotion in creating and sustaining change.

09: Making Change Stick

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Discover processes to avoid the “flavor of the month” syndrome and principles for making ideas stick.

10: Extrinsic Motivation and Reward

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Investigate extrinsic motivation and the limitations of external reward systems.

11: Beyond Money – Intrinsic Motivation

• Duration: 32 min

• Description: Learn about intrinsic motivation and its role in enhancing team performance through a case study.

12: Power – Getting It and Keeping It

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Understand the sources of a leader’s power and the risks associated with it.

13: Key Levers of Power

• Duration: 32 min

• Description: Navigate organizational politics to make change happen using various strategies.

14: Influence – Tools of Persuasion

• Duration: 33 min

• Description: Focus on authority and commitment as tools of influence in leadership.

15: Give and Take

• Duration: 33 min

• Description: Explore additional tools of influence, including reciprocation and social proof.

16: Negotiating as a Way of Life

• Duration: 32 min

• Description: Investigate negotiation strategies and their roots in theoretical games.

17: Avoiding the Zero-Sum Game

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Learn about value-claiming and value-creating behaviors in negotiation.

18: Building and Leading Teams

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Optimize team strength and productivity through effective leadership conditions.

19: Guiding Teams as They Evolve

• Duration: 33 min

• Description: Analyze process leadership and strategies to combat groupthink.

20: Observation and Organizational Learning

• Duration: 32 min

• Description: Master intelligence gathering and hone observational skills.

21: Deliberate Practice and Experiment

• Duration: 33 min

• Description: Improve after-action reviews and learn from exploratory experiments.

22: Stimulating Creativity

• Duration: 32 min

• Description: Discover myths about creativity and characteristics of effective collaboration.

23: Leading Innovation

• Duration: 31 min

• Description: Tap into open innovation and transparent R&D through case studies.

24: Developing Leaders

• Duration: 33 min

• Description: Understand the importance of developing future leaders within organizations.