Leveraging Power
You will find this course useful if your job involves dealing with people, positions and situations of different power dynamics.
What will you learn through this course?
In this course you will learn about the three strands of power. It will also help clarify that Power is not a negative connotation. Understanding your power orientation and that of the others will help you contextualise the use of the appropriate power. The course also helps you deal with questions sometimes that come to bog us down e.g. ‘not sure if I have the power or should I exercise the power or not‘ – the kind of dilemmas known as Power ambivalence .
Approach to the Course
All of us are endowed with power. This course approaches Power from the point of view of a leadership resource that is a motive force. Leaders are called upon to move things from their status quo.
The approach is to help you become aware, gain insights and skill practice on these elements referred to as Leadership Orientations. Orientations are characteristics or traits.
Moving away from the outlook on Power as dominance, the course approaches it as a resource that had many dimensions viz Natural, Social/institutional and Affiliative and that most situations in life – be it professional or personal call upon deployment of a combination of power as dictated by the situation / moment.
The course exposes you to the practice of restraint or release of the behaviour that the power dynamics of a context dictates.
In short, this course will add a new dimension to your approach and relationship with power.
How is the learning structured?
This course is designed to help you uncover the dimensions mentioned above by breaking it down to learning units that are bite size and easy to consume. It is structured to help you understand the content, learn its application and reflect on your behaviour relating to it. It offers a structure to skills practice to continue beyond the course as well.
The content is structured for you to absorb, internalise, reflect, be self-aware and practice building skill in that unit of content before proceeding to the next. We recommend you learn by spending time observing, reflecting and drawing deeper insights from your environment and watching others relating to the content as well. As you progress reflect and identify the areas you want to develop and practice skills beyond the course.
Deep involvement in each unit of content before moving to the next will heighten your learning experience of the program.
Learning components
Course content (Total 4 Sections)
Section 1 (A New Lens to Leadership)
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1.Webcast Time : 22 min
A new lens on Leadership - Part 1
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
Leadership - what does it really mean? Due to lack of a clear understanding of Leadership and an exalted meaning attached to it by everyone, people think it is beyond them. At Leadership Centre, we believe Leadership is a journey, a process. Leadership is about taking charge in a context and be accountable to the outcome. This podcast will help you clear the myths around leadership. It introduces you to when is that we exercise leadership. It also brings out the different contexts when we creat
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2.Webcast Time : 26 min
A new lens on Leadership - Part 2
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
In the second part of our introductory podcast on leadership, let us learn how you can develop your leadership abilities. Developing leadership abilities are not about working with your style and skill. Leadership abilities are underpinned by your leadership orientations. An orientation is what is characteristic of you and shapes your responses to a context. Look at leadership from the lens of leadership orientations and the need to work on it to build your leadership abilities
Section 2 (Becoming Aware)
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Profiler
Time : 10 min
This profiler contains multiple sets of statements.Each set has 3 statements. You have 5 points to allocate amongst the 3 statements, in each set. Allocate the maximum points to the statement which best describes you/your colleague, followed by the next and followed by the one which describes the least.
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2.Webcast Time : 59 min
How to read your Profiler Report
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
This webcast guides you and helps you gain clarity to read your Profiler report.
Section 3 (Understanding Power)
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1.Webcast Time : 18 min
Leadership Orientation - Power, Part 1
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
“Power” is not a four-letter word – though many like to position it as such. Yet power in itself is neither good nor bad; and it exists in all of us. In fact, there can be no exercise of leadership without power. It is the force that provides energy to leadership.
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2.Webcast Time : 23 min
Leadership Orientation - Power, Part 2
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
In this second part of the two-part webcast on power orientation, we will attempt to understand power in its elements. We will explore the three power motives that Professor David McClelland articulated, the structure of power motives, and the character of these power motives.
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3.Supplementary Learning Resource Time : 3 min
Concepts on Power
How would this benefit?
Practice exercises to help you gain focussed outcomes
What is Power? What is your Power? How can you use it to suit your context? Influenced by American psychologist David McClelland's theory, read more to know about a structure to leverage the Power within you.
Section 4 (Learning from Leaders)
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1.Webcast Time : 3 min
Leadership Insight On Power with Mr. Santosh Desai
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
Watch https://youtu.be/fJ69o_Jsq4Y for #LeadershipInsights from Santosh Desai, Managing Director & CEO, Future Brands, on the use and abuse of #Power
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2.Webcast Time : 3 min
Leadership Insight On Power with M.N. Singh
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
Watch this webcasts to understand how the different dimensions #Power play out in real life situations Tune into #LeadershipInsights from M. N. Singh, former Commissioner of Police, Mumbai.
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3.Webcast Time : 4 min
Leadership Insights On Power with Mr. Shiv Shivakumar
What is Webcast?
Watch video conversations to build your leadership abilities
What is the role of power in establishing standards? Watch this webcast for #LeadershipInsights from Shiv Shivakumar, Group Executive President - Corporate Strategy and Business, Aditya Birla Group., on #Power
Course Preview & Inclusions
- 2 hr 51 min
- 10 learning Resources
- Self-paced learning
- 1 profiling tools
- 2 hr 38 min of video content
- 1 supplementary learning resources
- Access on Mobile and Laptop
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