Leadership (Videos)

Topics: 25

Length: 6 hours

This course will show you how leaders create and communicate their vision, implement strategy, inspire others and champion change to make organizations grow. you will enhance your leadership ability and create an environment of credibility, trust and integrity

Topic 1 Creating and Communicating Vision

This seminar discusses the essence of effective leadership. The tutorial centres on the importance of vision to persuasive, motivational leadership, it teaches the student how to create a vision statement and then how to set about the achievement of goals and objectives through the effective communication of that vision.

Topic 2 Creating Organizations with Many Leaders (Interview)

Gifford Pinchot, author of Intrapreneuring in Action, leads this seminar on the principles of effective leadership. The tutorial details how to inspire vision and good leadership within an organization by applying core values such as listening to and caring for employees and leading by example.

Topic 3 Digital Markets (Interview)

Channel conflict, cannibalized products, confused customers - these are some of the dangers of doing business on the Internet dealt with by Walid Mougayar, President of CYBERManagement, Inc., and internationally recognized management consultant, in this seminar on successfully negotiating the challenges of Web based commerce.

Topic 4 E-Business Strategies (Interview)

Dr. Ravi Kalakota, CEO of E-Business Strategies and author of E-Business 2.0, leads this tutorial on creating an effective e-business strategy. The seminar discusses the importance of developing the right strategy and its vital impact on success in this world of electronic commerce.

Topic 5 Leadership in Freaked Out Times (Interview)

Crazy times call for crazy leadership. This tutorial given by Tom Peters, Guru of the Gurus of management and Chairman of Tom Peters Company, gives his own highly individual view of how to lead effectively in crazy, freaked-out times.

Topic 6 Leading into the Future (Interview)

This seminar given by Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, one of the foremost authorities on executive coaching, discusses the challenges that face the leaders of organisations in the rapidly changing business market place. The tutorial proposes new attitudes to leadership based on the emmerging challenges of Web based business.

Topic 7 Leading Organizational Transition

This tutorial deals with change and how to manage it. The seminar discusses the importance of leadership in a period of change, as well as detailing the differences between change and transition, including the three phases of the transition process. It will give students the tools to provide effective and flexible leadership during the many types of change affecting the modern organisation, from redefinitions of corporate goals and values through product changes to mergers and leadership changes.

Topic 8 Show, Don't Tell

This tutorial on the vital matter of content delivery is given by Jonathan Seelig, Vice President of strategy and corporate development at Akamai. The seminar discusses how to decentralize a Web infrastructure in order to give customers better access, reliability and performance, and how to ensure the fast and effective delivery of content in this highly competitive area.

Topic 9 Strategic Planning

This tutorial covers the successful implementation of strategic initiatives. The seminar discusses how to put the planning stage of strategic choices into practice, from the process of implementing, to the evaluation of the success of that process, including how to identify and avoid unsuccessful initiatives.

Topic 10 Strategic Planning

This tutorial covers how to move from the planning of a strategic initiative to its implementation. The seminar also looks at ways of evaluating the implementation and discusses how to recognise why an implementation plan might succeed - or fail.

Topic 11 Strategic Planning

This seminar discusses the processes needed in the successful implementation of strategic initiatives. The tutorial covers the establishment of processes, the importance of leadership in monitoring the progress towards the organisation's strategic goals, how to ensure the use of behaviours needed by those maintaining the direction of change and the rewards and recognition vital to the final success of the implementation.

Topic 12 Supporting Innovation (Interview)

This seminar given by Gifford Pinchot, author of Intrapreneuring in Action, discusses how effective leadership can direct and support the entrepreneurial spirit. The tutorial provides tips on how to secure what Pinchot calls an explosion of innovation.

Topic 13 Surfer Rules (Interview)

This seminar by Dr. Louis Patler, President of The B.I.T. Group, an international consultancy specialising in strategic planning, gives the student an understanding of the changing rules governing the entirely new workplace of modern commerce. The tutorial gives the student invaluable tips on how to ride the new wave of non stop change that characterises the new economy.

Topic 14 The E-Marketplace (Interview)

Biri Singh, author, speaker and co-founder and CEO of Idapta, runs this seminar on the successful manipulation of the e-commerce marketplace. The tutorial pays particular attention to business to business communications.

Topic 15 The Power of B-Webs (Interview)

This tutorial is given by Don Tapscott, Chairman of Digital 4Sight and President of New Paradigm Learning Corporation. The seminar discusses the power of the business web, and the transformation in the rules of competition brought about by the many new and successful b-web businesses.

Topic 16 The Leadership Challenge

Based on the best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, this tutorial invites the student to challenge the process. The seminar discusses how effective leadership encourages risk-taking and experiment, changing and questioning accepted practices and habits and turning uncertainty into opportunities to learn from mistakes and make change happen.

Topic 17 The Leadership Challenge

This tutorial, based on the best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, examines the crucial role of collaboration in effective leadership. Leaders enable others to act, and nothing enables action more than a sense of confident, co-operative ownership. The seminar discusses ways of involving others and enlisting their support, how to combat the handicaps of alienation and the feeling of incompetence, how to build trust and how to promote co-operative goals within an organisation, all leading to vitally improved performance.

Topic 18 The Leadership Challenge

This seminar, based on the best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, examines the vital role in successful leadership of providing encouragement and incentive to others. The tutorial gives the student the tools to combat the exhaustion, frustration and disenchantment that the hard climb to the top can bring the crucial workers in an organisation. It provides hints and tips on how to link rewards with performance and identify ways to celebrate accomplishments and thereby encourage achievement and growth.

Topic 19 The Leadership Challenge

This is a tutorial based on the best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, that discusses the importance of vision to successful leadership. The seminar teaches the student how to develop their desire to make something happen, to create something and translate it into a shared vision that others can identify with and participate in and ultimately make happen.

Topic 20 The Leadership Challenge

Based on the best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, this tutorial teaches the importance of personal example in leadership. The seminar gives the student an understanding of such concepts as leader credibility, setting an example, the small wins process (where simple daily acts can create progress and momentum) and the building of committment both to an organisation and to a leader.

Topic 21 Tilt The Field

This is a tutorial on the use and operation of Thoughtware, a process of thought devised to deal with the increasing rate of change in the modern business world. The tutorial covers the development of flexibility and durability in strategies and attitudes, the importance of service and a commitment to inventing the future.

Topic 22 Tilt The Field

This tutorial discusses some of the major concepts of the new programme of leadership and innovation known as Thoughtware. The seminar covers such topics as employee retention, commitment, globalism and invisible leadership.

Topic 23 Tilt The Field

This tutorial covers the many sides of innovation. The seminar discusses the differences between creativity and innovation, and gives the student strategies for creating a truly innovative work environment.

Topic 24 Transform, Don't Conform (Interview)

This tutorial given by Mitchel Resnick, associate professor at MIT Media Laboratory and author of Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds, discusses how to achieve business innovation by challenging employees. The seminar suggests ways to encourage innovation in a company by establishing new relationships with others within the company and with the company's customers.

Topic 25 Value Matters (Interview)

This seminar, given by Chris Meyer, director of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation, discusses how the value of companies now lies in the intangible. The tutorial covers the changing meaning of value, and how bigger, heavier and more solid no longer necessarily means worth more.