This course engages with the biggest factor to affect 21st Century leadership, the digital revolution, especially data. Many modern leaders find themselves ill equipped for the volume of data and the speed of digital communication. Most leadership training focuses on 20th Century research and models of behaviour. This specifically fails to help leaders to adapt to the volumes of data they receive in the modern firm. Traditional leadership models influence leaders to attempt sense making and decision making on their own. This course will demonstrate how modern leadership uses agility and power to the edge to gain competitive advantage.

Online course, total workload of 100 hours. Distributed between online exercises, video lectures, participation in the online forum.

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This course aims to:

■ Explain how traditional and modern leadership differ.

■ Demonstrate the effect of organisational structure on leadership styles,

■ Discuss the emergence of agility in leadership practice.

■ Explore the role of data and digitisation in modern leadership.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Critically evaluate, with particular reference to digital data, traditional leadership models

2. Distinguish between agile and efficient leadership structures and their relationship to data

3. Analyse the role of data, volume, quality and timeliness, in decision making

4. Analyse and assess leadership narratives and whether they help or hinder modern leaders in a digital age

5. Describe and evaluate the role of collective decision making and agile teams

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.