Changemaking Journeys: Transformational leadership for societal impact

Course goals

Content

The course is divided in three modules, covering topics around interpersonal leadership, self-awareness, and psychological flexibility (module 1), transformational leadership, collaboration and prosocial behavior (module 2), transformative action, stakeholder engagement and community co-design (module 3).

Module 1: Interpersonal leadership, self-awareness, and psychological flexibility which deals with personal qualities, values and behaviour, self-awareness and psychological flexibility. The module focuses on the you as an individual within your own environment. In this module, you mostly engage with ‘who you are’ and how you act within you environments, i.e. contributing to you intrapersonal or self-awareness competencies as well as your values-thinking competencies. You will reflect on and take responsibility for your own development by understanding your personality traits, core values, and desired areas for enhancement. In this module, you will develop the competencies on how to enhance the desired developments.  

Module 2: Transformational leadership, collaboration and prosocial behavior. The second module builds on module 1 by focusing on working sustainably and effectively in diverse teams. In this module, you mostly engage with how you are embedded in groups, how you work in groups and how groups collaborate with other groups to improve their ability to make a positive change in this world. You will learn about taking a leading role by defining group purposes and group dynamics, building a shared vision, and enhancing fairness, intrinsic motivation and effectiveness within and beyond teams. Non-violent, culture-sensitive communication will also be part of this module.

Module 3: Transformative action, stakeholder engagement and community co-design. The third module focuses on engaging with stakeholders and in community co-design. In this module, you will learn how to navigate complex interactions with different societal groups with different knowledges, values and worldviews (interpersonal competencies). You will explicitly build their learning experiences on the insights and reflection from module 1 and 2.