ICM - Leadership: Challenges & Practice
Aims of Leadership: Challenges & Practice Training:
This training will provide candidates with an insight into the skills of leadership by drawing on, and placing in context, portraits of some of the famous and infamous leaders through history. With scenarios drawn from business, politics, society and the military the course provides a detailed insight into the nature and function of leadership.
Candidates will be able to:
- Understand practical examples of leaders in leadership situations.
- Understand the influence and impact of leaders across history.
- Understand the significance of the historical impact of leaders on modern society.
The Arts of Leadership
Parallel Leadership Situations
- Crash landing and take-off: business leadership on Skytrain and Virgin Atlantic
- The floating republics: political leadership and the Spithead and Nore mutinies
- Nursing the media: leadership in the Crimean and English hospitals
- Scarlet and black: military leadership at Isandhlwana and Rorke’s Drift·
Situating Extreme Leaders
- Henry Ford: the blind business visionary
- Horatio Nelson: determining the indeterminate military hero
- Adolf Hitler: the political emotionasaurus rex
Martin Luther King’s dream speech: the rhetoric of social leadership
Assessment Method: 3 hour’s written examination with 100% weighting.