Course Introduction

Meet Your Instructor

Automatic Cycle of Behavior

Multitasking

Mindfulness

Our Two Selves 

Understanding Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence: Managing Anger

Emotional Intelligence: Managing Fear 

Emotional Intelligence: Managing Shame and Guilt

Emotional Intelligence: Managing Envy

Emotional Intelligence and Our Inner Talk

Understanding the Learning Mindset 

Building a Learning Mindset

Positive Strengths: Hope

Positive Strengths: Optimism

Positive Strengths: Resilience

Positive Strengths: Self-efficacy 

Course Overview

Essential Reading: Mindfulness the Myth of Multitasking and Winning Our Inner Game

Essential Reading: Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Management in Virtual Workplaces

Recommended Reading: Case Study: Mohan Dixit

Recommended Readings: Leading the Self: Mindfulness Inner Stability and Positive Strengths

Graded Quiz: Leading the Self: Mindfulness Inner Stability and Positive Strengths

Mindfulness and Inner Stability

Emotional Intelligence

Understanding and Developing Positive Strengths

Heal Your Thoughts

Leadership Challenges for the New-age Organizations

TREAT Leadership: Task-orientation

TREAT Leadership: Relation-orientation 

TREAT Leadership: Empowerment

TREAT Leadership: Authenticity

TREAT Leadership: Team-building

TREATment styles

Educate TREATment Style

Engage and Execute TREATment Style

Energize TREATment Style

Empower TREATment Style

Scoring Leadership Style Inventory

Leadership Effectiveness: Situational Leadership

Leadership Effectiveness: Managing High Performers

Leadership Effectiveness: Managing Demotivated Individuals

Essential Reading: Leadership Style Inventory

Essential Reading: Scoring Key: Leadership Style Inventory

Essential Reading: Leading Knowledge Organizations in the Post-Covid World

Essential Reading: T-R-E-A-T Leadership for New-Age Organizations

Recommended Reading: Case Study: Meera Nair at PhoenixWay: Which Way to Go?

Recommended Reading: ‘T-R-E-A-T’ Leadership for ‘L-E-A-P’ in a Knowledge-Based World

Graded Quiz: Leading Downward: Leader Behaviors and Leadership Styles

TREAT Leadership

Leadership Styles

Understanding Your Leadership Style

Leadership Styles and Effectiveness

Associative Coherence and Decision-Making Bias

The Anchoring Bias

The Availability Bias

Overconfidence and Confirmation Bias

Framing Bias

Attribute Substitution and Representative Bias

Sunk-cost Bias

Understanding System 1 and System 2 of Decision-Making

Developing Skilled Intuitions

Supportive Communication

Principles of Supportive Communication: Listening

Principles of Supportive Communication: Non-judgmental

Principles of Supportive Communication: Validating

Principles of Supportive Communication: Authentic

Fundamental Techniques of Handling People

Essential Reading: Caselet: Prakash Mehta and Chandresh Desai

Essential Readings: Types of Decision-Making Biases (And How To Recognize Bias)

Essential Readings: Common biases and Errors in Decision-Making

Essential Readings: A Complete Guide on Decision-Making Biases

Recommended Readings: Building Sustainable Relationships: Supportive Communication and Decision-Making Biases

Graded Quiz: Building Sustainable Relationships: Supportive Communication and Decision-making Biases

Associative Coherence and Decision-making Biases

Attribute Substitution and Decision-making Biases

Supportive Communication

Demystifying Intuitive Capabilities

Understanding Power in Organizations 

Sources of Power: Personal 

Sources of Power: Positional

Sources of Power: Relational 

Sources of Power: Conflicts and Dominance

Understanding Networks and Their Characteristics

Understanding Network Characteristics: Breadth

Understanding Network Characteristics: Strength

Understanding Network Characteristics: Density

Understanding Network Characteristics: Centrality and Structural Holes

Principles of Developing Networks

Politics: Using Power to Influence Others

Politics: Negative or Positive

Leading Upwards and Paradigms of Human Interactions

Leading Upwards: Art of Working with Bosses

Essential Reading: Case Study: Aditya Kumar

Essential Reading: Pre-work: Network Assessment Exercise

Essential Readings: Relational Power: The Importance of Networking in Organizations

Essential Readings: Leading Upwards: Art of Working Effectively with Bosses

Recommended Books: Power Politics and Leading Upward

Reference Watch: The Pursuit of Happiness

Graded Quiz: Power Politics and Leading Upwards

Understanding Power

Developing and Leveraging Networks

Politics and Leading Upwards

Importance of Power and Politics in Organizations

Ethical Dilemmas: What are they?

Ethics and Morals: Understanding the Difference

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Ethical Purpose

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Ethical Principles

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Pragmatism

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Principled Pragmatism

Understanding Organizational Culture

Leadership and Organizational Culture

LEAP Organizational Culture: Learning Mindset and Enjoyment

LEAP Organizational Culture: Autonomy and Performance

Cultural Transformation: TREAT for LEAP

Challenges of Change Management

Essentials of Change Management: Leadership

Essentials of Change Management: Coalition

Essentials of Change Management: Culture

Essential Reading: Cultural Transformation at Microsoft

Essential Reading: Leadership and Organizational Culture: Two Sides of a Coin

Essential Reading: L-E-A-P: Rethinking Organizational Culture for New-Age Organizations

Essential Reading: How Satya Nadella Brought a Growth Mindset to Microsoft

Essential Reading: Reinventing Microsoft - 4 Cultural Hacks by Satya Nadella

Recommended Reading: Case Study: Satya Nadella at Microsoft

Recommended Readings: Ethics Culture and Change Management

Reference Watch: Invictus

Graded Quiz: Ethics Culture and Change Management

Navigating Ethical Dilemmas

Leadership and Culture

Leadership and Change Management

Means and the Ends

Mahabharata: The Origin​

Mahabharata: Plot and the Conflict

Mahabharata Characters: Bhishma - The Grandsire

Mahabharata Characters: The Kauravas

Mahabharata Characters: The Pandavas

Mahabharata’s Other Characters: Karna Dronacharya and Ashvatthama

Karna: The Quest for Identity

Ashwatthama: Mindfulness and Emotional Stability

Kunti: Vision Values and Positive Leader Behaviors​

Shakuni: Power Politics and Stratagem

Bhishma: Life and Deeds

Bhishma: Resolving Paradoxes

Krishna: Life and Deeds

Krishna: Principled Pragmatism

The Mahabharata Code: The Leadership Triangle

Essential Reading: Demystifying Leadership: Unveiling the Mahabharata Code

Reference Watch: Mahabharata

Graded Quiz: Leadership and Ancient Indian Wisdom: Lessons from the Mahabharata

Understanding the Mahabharata and its Characters​

Lessons from the Mahabharata: Individual and Organisational Leadership

Lessons from the Mahabharata: Resolving Paradoxes and Ethical Dilemmas

Leadership and Ancient Indian Wisdom

Course Wrap-up

Leadership Lessons from the Life of a Legend or a Hero