Leadership is an essential component of business success, involving a complex interaction between the leader, followers and situation. It describes a process in which a person influences, motivates, and enables others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of organizations of which they are members.

At this state-of-the-art Applied Leadership course, we watch an exciting movie and become familiar with essential leadership „KPIs“ as well as with the importance of value systems and their creation. What distinguishes a successful leader and diverse personal, behavioural and communicational aspects come into discussion as well as the importance of sharp strategic and organizational skills and how these can advance to excellence.

The total learning hours for this Module amount to 100. These are distributed across the following categories:

• Total Contact Hours: 20
• Self-Study Hours: 20
• Supervised Placement and Practice Hours: 10
• Assessment Hours: 50

This Module carries a value of 4 ECTS.

Module-Specific Learner Skills:

At the end of the module/unit  the learner will be able to

Integrate theory, research findings and practice for real-world problem solving.

• Visualize good and bad leadership practices.
• Learn which leadership traits characterize effective leaders.
• Understand the differences between leadership, strategy and organization and how managers confuse these in the daily business.
• Learn how to inspire employee motivation and performance
• Learn how to develop trustful relationships and increase employee loyalty

 

Competences:

At the end of the module/unit, the learner will have acquired the responsibility and autonomy to:

Manages people and projects and demonstrates the ability to respond to the fast-changing business environment.

• Be responsible for making informed and effective decisions.
• Carry out leading and management tasks efficiently.
• Demonstrate accountability for the outcomes of leadership initiatives.
• Assign tasks effectively to leverage team strengths.
• Effectively manage people and projects, aligning strategies and execution with evolving business environments.

 

Knowledge:

At the end of the module/unit, the learner will have been exposed to the following:

Integrate forward-thinking concepts, standards, and managerial decision-making tools in the functional areas of management.

• Critically evaluate and differentiate between leadership, strategy, and organization, and analyze how managers may confuse these roles in daily business operations.
• Assess and critique both good and bad leadership practices.
• Identify and critically analyze effective leadership behaviors and evaluate their impact on followers.
• Examine how leaders can inspire, motivate, and demonstrate empathy, and synthesize strategies for implementing these behaviors in practice.
• Analyse strategic and organisational principles from alternative contexts, and understand how they fit to modern business environments.
• Raise leaders' awareness of the importance of value systems and their alignment with social and ethical responsibilities.

Module 1

Leadership KPIs and application

• Watch the following section of the “Gladiator” movie.

1. Start - 00:20:00

• Discuss the leadership skills and aspects observed in the movie.
• How did effective leader behave? How did they inspire and motivate their people? How did they show care and empathy for their people?
• How did bad leader behave? Define the bad leadership traits that you observed.
• Apply effective leadership KPIs to your daily business.
• Group discussion and presentation.

 

Module 2

Leadership KPIs and application

• Watch the following section of the “Gladiator” movie.

1. 00:21:00 – 00:43:00

• Discuss the leadership skills and aspects observed in this section of the movie.
• How did effective leader behave? How did they inspire and motivate their people? How did they show care and empathy for their people?
• How did bad leader behave? Define the bad leadership traits that you observed.
• Apply newly learned effective leadership KPIs to your daily business.
• Group discussion and presentation.

 

Module 3

• Watch the following section of the “Gladiator” movie.

1. 1:28:40 – 1:37:00

• Discuss the leadership skills and aspects observed in the colosseum battle.
• Which leadership traits helped the gladiator’s team to win.
• Apply newly learned leadership skills to your daily business.
• Group discussion and presentation.

 

Module 4

Strategy & Structure KPIs and application

• Re-watch the following section of the “Gladiator” movie.

1. 00:02:10 - 00:20:00

• Discuss the strategy and organizational skills and aspects that characterized:
  • The roman army
  • The barbarian army
• Which were the main strategy and organizational aspects that helped the romans win the battle against the barbarians?
• Apply strategy and organizational KPIs to your daily business.
• Group discussion and presentation.

 

The digital learning tools that are being used during the programme are the following:

• Learning Management System (LMS).
• Real-time lectures that are recorded.
• Zoom platform.
• Power Point for Creating - Presenting Learning Materials.
• Interactive Case Studies.

Assessment Type	Weight
Knowledge application/Presentation	25%
Knowledge application/Presentation	25%
Knowledge application/Presentation	25%
Knowledge application	25%
Total	100%

Passing grade                                                                                                                                                                       60%