Transformational Leadership and Governance
What you'll learn
- Express clearly the nature of transformation as compared to other types of change
- Reflect constructively on their own and others’ leadership capacity
- Improve their transformational leadership capacity by taking concrete steps
- Analyze and describe an organization in terms of its level of development and agility
- Choose appropriate implementation tools for large-scale collaboration
- Design a strategy for enhancing the transformational quality of leadership and governance in an organization
Requirements
- This course does require you to get your thinking hat on and engage in some mind-stretching!
- The course involves over 15 hours of video so you will need a decent internet connection and the software on your computer to be able to watch video comfortably.
- Being familiar with a context involving people collaborating together to achieve a collective goal helps you to ground these ideas in a real context. That could be an organization, community or group that you are involved in.
Description
In today’s rapidly changing world, learning to lead and design our communities and organizations to ride the turbulence creatively is critical to our ability to make a positive impact. This course covers the subject of evolutionary change, and the implications for us as individual leaders, as well as for our organizational cultures and structures. It combines intellectual rigor with personal challenge, collaboration with creative expression. Students engage with integrative maps of organizational and leadership development, as well as instantly applicable practices for becoming more effective and dynamic as individuals and collectives.
This course has over 10 hours of professionally produced educational video, a wealth of learning resources including pdfs of all the slides used in the presentations and comprehensive multiple choice quizzes to help you test your progress and integrate your knowledge. This course is also available for academic credit with Ubiquity University - contact registrar@ubiquity.university and see www.ubiquity.courses.
You can also engage with others in the Facebook group for this course. Search for transformationalleadershippetermerry on Facebook and request to join the group!
The main subjects covered include:
- Transformation and Change
- The Learning Organization
- Levels of Leadership Development
- Practices for Transformational Leadership
- Personal Effectiveness and Resilience
- Organizational Culture
- Tools for Collaboration
- Levels of Organizational Development
- Creating an Agile Organization
- Practices from the Future
Who this course is for:
- This course is for anyone who realises that our current forms of leadership and organization are inadequate to the complexity of change we are facing. It is for anyone already in a leadership role or wanting to play one. It is not for the faint-heart and requires significant brain-power and openness to your own personal development.
- 14 modules with over 15 hours of course material and multiple-choice quizzes to help you integrate your learning - you can work through it at your leisure and find what is most relevant to you.
- There is much new thinking and many leading-edge practices described in the course so an open mind and willingness to experiment is important!
- This course is available for undergraduate and graduate credits at Ubiquity University. For the full Ubiquity experience including small-group interaction, creative assignments with faculty feedback, extra self-mastery modules, mission change-project support and academic credits, contact registrar@ubiquityuniversity.org
Course content
- Preview18:40
- Preview15:28
- 08:50An Integral Approach Part 1 (Module 1 Session 3 Pt1)
- 18:00An Integral Approach Part 2 (Module 1 Session 3 Pt2)
- 07:54Leadership Theories (Module 1 Session 4)
- 12 questionsAn Integral Approach to Leadership
Instructor
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- 63 Reviews
- 359 Students
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Peter Merry is Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University, founder of the Center for Human Emergence Netherlands, and a founding partner of Engage!. He has worked in and across different sectors. As well as co-founding and leading the organisations above, his experience includes facilitating integral change processes in multinational corporations, and government ministries, and in multi-stakeholder initiatives with global stakeholders. He has also spent many years in the not-for-profit sector. He is a recognised expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and Spiral Dynamics Integral in particular. He has had his first book published in English and Dutch (Evolutionary Leadership). He is currently researching the application of noetic science and energetics to whole systems transitions. In this context, he is working on a Ph.D. with Ubiquity’s Wisdom School.