Leading Yourself and Others in a Virtual World (Wintersemester 2023/2024)

Lecturer: Karsten Drath

General Information

• Weekly Hours: 2
• Credits: 3
• Graded: yes
• Enrolment Deadline: 01.10.2023 - 22.10.2023
• Examination time §9 (4) BAMA-O: 27.02.2024
• Teaching Form: Block seminar
• Enrolment Type: Compulsory Module
• Course Language: English
• Maximum number of participants: 30

Programs, Module Groups & Modules

Description

­­1. Leading Self

• Leading Self
• How does Resilience work?
• Risk- and Protective Factors
• Victim- or Shaper mode
• Interview “Leaders Talk”
• My development plan

2. Leading Others

• Management vs. Leadership
• Six Leadership Styles by Daniel Goleman
• Self Assessment: My leadership signature
• How leaders grow
• Interview “Leaders Talk”
• My development plan

3. Leading Virtually

• Leading virtual teams
• Success factors
• Self-Assessment Leading Virtually
• Interview “Leaders Talk”
• Virtual Inspiration Challenge
• My development plan

Literature

COURSE PREWORK

Part 1: Leading Self

• Podcast with Natalia Osadcii "How to keep a positive outlook during a war?" https://youtu.be/y78ZfPn6Mgw
• HBR How Resilience Works; Diane Coutu
• LC Corona and Resilience; Karsten Drath & Petra Lewe
• Podcast “Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders” Jennifer Tejada “Resilience is Everything” https://ecorner.stanford.edu/videos/resilience-is-everything/

Part 2: Leading Others

• Please complete the Goleman Leadership Style Self-Assessment.
• Leadership That Gets Results; Daniel Goleman
• HBR Why Capable People are reluctant to lead; Chen Zhang et al.
• HBR Why should anyone be led by you; Robert Goffee, Gareth Jones
• HBR What leaders really do; John P. Kotter
• LC Flexible Leadership with impact; Karsten Drath, Martin Kruse
• HBR Seven Transformations of Leadership; David Rooke, William R.Torbert
• Podcast “Leaders Talk”; Episode 28 “Ulrik Nehammer, how do you combine competition and values?” https://youtu.be/ZkSIwcq3alY

Part 3: Leading Virtually

• HBR The Secrets of Great Teamwork; Martine Haas and Mark Mortensen
• HBR 5 Questions That (Newly) Virtual Leaders Should Ask Themselves; Melissa Raffoni
• HBR Getting Virtual Teams Right; Keith Ferrazzi
• BBC The reason Zoom calls drain your energy; Manyu Jiang
• McKinsey & Company - Revisiting agile teams after an abrupt shift to remote; Santiago Comella-Dorda et al.
• HBR Podcast Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace; Amy Edmondson

Learning

• Input
• Class discussions
• Group work with class presentation
• Self-reflection
• Interviews with guests via zoom followed by Q&A
• Debriefing self-assessment
• Application of concepts

Examination

COURSE HOMEWORK
Due 14 days after end of course:
• Hand in individual reflection journal (structured course handout with guiding questions)
• Structured essay: “My Development Plan”

GRADING
• Reflection Journal (50%)
• My Development Plan (50%)

Dates

27.02.24, 2.00 pm to 6.30 pm
28.02. and 29.02.24, 9.00 am to 5.30 pm each
01.03.24, 9.00 am to 1.30 pm

Room: H-2.57/58

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