About this course: Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels.
Created by: Case Western Reserve University
Taught by: Richard Boyatzis, Distinguished University Professor, and a Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science
| Basic Info | Course 1 of 5 in the Inspired Leadership Specialization |
| Commitment | 12 hours videos, quizzes, and homework |
| Language | English, Subtitles: Arabic, French, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified), Turkish, Kazakh |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
Week 1: Resonant Leadership and the Neuroscience Behind It
Great leaders moves people through resonant relationships. Resonant relationships occur when the leader and the people around them are in sync or in tune. These relationships are characterized by the shared experience of vision and hope, compassion and caring, and mindfulness. and how people can be inspired to change and inspire change in others. We demonstrate. We explore the neuroscience behind resonant and dissonant leadership, in terms of the default mode and task positive networks.
4 videos, 4 readings
- Video: Watch: Course Introduction
- Reading: Read: Navigating the Course
- Discussion Prompt: Meet & Greet: Introduce Yourself!
- Video: Watch: What Is Great Leadership?
- Reading: Read & Watch: Required, Recommended, and Supplemental Readings & Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: How many leaders have brought out the best in you or not?
- Video: Watch: Resonant Leaders Create Experiences of Hope, Compassion, and Mindfulness
- Reading: Read: Required and Recommended Reading List
- Video: Watch: The Neuroscience of Leadership
- Reading: Read: Recommended Reading List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: How did the leaders who brought out the best in you make you feel...
Graded: Reflection: PLA #1 (Module 1.1) Leaders Who Brought Out the Best in You
Graded: Test for Understanding: Week 1 Quiz
WEEK 2
Week 2: Renewal As an Antidote to Chronic Stress
We examine the effects of emotional contagion, both positive and negative on relationship. We examine the psychological and physiological process with which our bodies and minds experience stress and how it hinders openness to new ideas, people and emotions. Chronic annoying stress causes cognitive, emotional and perceptual impairment. We examine the Parasympathetic Nervous System, the bodies only way to ameliorate the effects of stress and renew. We examine how hope/vision, compassion, mindfulness and playfulness both build resonant relationships and enable us to renew.
3 videos, 3 readings
- Video: Watch: Emotions Are Contagious
- Reading: Read: Recommended and Supplemental Reading List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: When have you experienced emotional contagion that was positive?
- Video: Watch: Stress and Renewal
- Reading: Read & Watch: Supplemental Reading & Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: What are the triggers that spark annoying stress for you?
- Video: Watch: Strategies for Renewal and Building Resonant Relationships
- Reading: Read: Recommended Reading List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: What kinds of activities or experiences are renewing for you?
Graded: Test for Understanding: Week 2 Quiz
WEEK 3
Week 3: Emotional Intelligence and Its Link to Leadership
Emotional, social and cognitive intelligence competencies are the drivers of effective leadership, management and professional jobs. We review the research in private, public and non-profit sector jobs in many countries of the world.
2 videos, 3 readings, 2 practice quizzes
- Video: Watch: Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Intelligence Competencies
- Reading: Read & Watch: Recommended and Supplemental Reading & Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: Reflect on the recent behavior of any CEO or top leader in the news.
- Reading: Practice: PLA #6A - Coding Introduction
- Practice Quiz: Practice: Incident #3
- Practice Quiz: Practice: Incident #4
- Video: Watch: EI and SI in Various Fields of Work
- Reading: Read: Required and Recommended Reading List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: What are the competencies that you have been able to use well, that are your strengths?
Graded: Test for Understanding: PLA #6 - Coding Quiz/ Incident #5
Graded: Apply Skills: ALA #1: Me at My Best
Graded: Test for Understanding: Week 3 Quiz
WEEK 4
Week 4: Inspiring and Motivating Sustained Development, Growth and Learning
Intentional Change Theory and decades of longitudinal research showing how it creates sustained, desired change is introduced. Learners examine who and how people have helped them grow in the past and link it to future possibilities. We explore the Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors (PEA and NEA), which are states that enable change, and help us become open to it. We need the NEA to survive and the PEA to strive and flourish.
2 videos, 2 readings
- Video: Watch: Key People and Relationships Who Inspired You
- Reading: Read: Required and Supplemental Reading List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: How did it feel remembering these moments with people who helped you the most?
- Video: Watch: The Positive (PEA) and Negative (NEA) Emotional Attractors
- Reading: Read & Watch: Required and Supplemental Readings & Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: How do you and others respond when in the PEA?
Graded: Reflection: PLA #7 (Module 4.1) Who Helped Me Most?
Graded: Test for Understanding: Week 4 Quiz
WEEK 5
Week 5: Coaching with Compassion to Inspire Sustained Learning and Development & Peer Coaching: With a Little Help from my Friends
This week we examine the PEA and the NEA in depth in terms of emotional, relational and neurological factors. We examine the type of conversations that inspire the PEA in others and why we call this coaching with compassion.e
5 videos, 5 readings
- Video: Watch: Studies and Neurological Evidence of Coaching to the PEA
- Reading: Watch: Supplemental Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: When someone is entering the PEA what are the signs you can see?
- Video: Watch: Survive and Thrive: Balancing the PEA and NEA
- Reading: Read & Watch: Supplemental Readings & Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: What do you think is the best ratio of PEA to NEA for you right now?
- Video: Watch: Practicing Conversations That Inspire
- Reading: Read & Watch: Recommended and Supplemental Readings & Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: Which questions seem to help bring someone into the PEA? How did you notice that?
- Reading: Practice: PLA #9A (Module 5.3) Preview, Conversations that Inspire
- Video: Watch: Reviewing and Assessing a Coaching with Compassion Essay
- Video: Watch: Instructions for Reviewing and Evaluating a Coaching with Compassion Essay
- Reading: Prepare: PLA #9B Information
Graded: Test for Understanding: PLA #9B PLA Quiz
Graded: Apply Skills: ALA #2 Coaching with Compassion
WEEK 6
Week 6: Inspiring Change through Hope and Vision – Discovery #1 in ICT
This week we explore all of the five the phases of Intentional Change Theory in depth: how we distinguished the Ideal Self from the Ought Self. We examine life and career stages, how to know when you are in mid-life crises.
3 videos, 3 readings
- Video: Watch: The Battle Between the Ideal Self and Ought Self
- Reading: Read: Required and Supplemental Reading List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: Do you have a personal vision? If you have a family, do you have a shared vision?
- Video: Watch: The Beginning of Your Personal Vision
- Reading: Watch: Supplemental Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: How did it feel when you were reflecting on the exercises in the video?
- Video: Watch: Developing Your Personal Vision, Including Life and Career Stages
- Reading: Read & Watch: Required and Supplemental Readings & Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: What are the number of years typically in your life cycle? Of your career cycle?
Graded: Reflection: PLA #10a (Module 7.2) Components of Ideal Self/Personal Vision
Graded: Reflection: PLA #10b (Module 7.3) Developing Your Personal Vision
WEEK 7
Week 7: The Multilevel Nature of Sustained, Desired Change
Following on from last week's modules, this week we turn to change at the team and organizational level. We outline how resonant leadership and the establishment of and membership in social identity groups can facilitate change in dyads, teams, organizations, communities, countries and even global change. We will review recent research documenting the effectiveness of developing shared vision.
4 videos, 3 readings
- Video: Watch: Multilevel Change: Resonant Leadership and Identity Groups
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: Were you surprised or not as to how complex your life system is?
- Video: Watch: Developing Shared Vision in Teams and Organizations
- Reading: Read & Watch: Required and Recommended Readings & Videos List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: Think of one or two of the teams or groups in which you are a member...
- Video: Watch: Recent Research on the Impact of Shared Visio
- Reading: Read: Required and Recommended Readings List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: What could you try in one of your teams or groups to begin a discussion of shared vision?
- Video: Watch: Team Change and Developing Social Identity
- Reading: Watch: Supplemental Videos List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: What are the social identity groups that help you move toward your personal vision?
Graded: Apply Skills: ALA #3: Shared Vision
Graded: Test for Understanding: Week 7 Quiz
WEEK 8
Week 8: The Real Self and Learning Agenda – Discoveries #2, 3, 4 in ICT
In our final week, we examine the remaining elements of Intentional Change Theory: drawing a distinction between The Real Self and Faux Self, establishing a learning agenda, and emphasizing the value of experimentation and practice in shaping and re-shaping our visions. We conclude with a review of the course and the summary of the materials covered to date.
3 videos, 2 readings
- Video: Watch: The Real Self vs. Faux Self and a Learning Agenda
- Reading: Read: Recommended and Supplemental Readings List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: What do you experience as a threat to an accurate image of your Real Self?
- Video: Watch: Experimentation and Practice
- Reading: Read & Watch: Recommended and Supplemental Readings & Video List
- Discussion Prompt: Discuss: What settings are good for you to practice new behaviors, thoughts, or feelings?
- Video: Watch: Review and Summary
Graded: Test for Understanding: Final Exam
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Ratings and Reviews
I really liked the scientific base of the whole course, and the lively lectures. It was a great pleasure to do this course...
This is more than just a course, it opens up a new way of thinking about business. This is not hyperbole, I have finished 15 business courses prior to this one and this one brings the most impactful subject matter to the table. The reading is a bit frustrating because it is academic papers and not articles.
It was a fantastic learning experience. Key learnings included :
1) Why our emotions & feelings matter in creating a successful life & fantastic relationships at home and in the workplace.
2) What is Resonant leadership and how resonant leaders help in making a huge difference in how companies and employees perform.
3) Identifying Negative Emotional Attractor (NEA) & creating Positive Emotional Attractor (PEA). And how it impacts us neurologically (at the brain level).
4) How coaching with compassion & PEA is the way to coach.
5) Creating a Personal Vision (Ideal Self).
6) What helps and hinders one's path to the Ideal Self or to success.
Looking forward to the next module : Women in Leadership.
I recommend this course to everyone. Whoever is interested in leadership (moms, dads, teachers, business people, managers, everyone...), please invest some time in learning these wonderful tools that will definitely help you create an extraordinary successful life.
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This has been a fantastic journey. Dr Boyatzis is inspirational and I have enjoyed his short lectures every week. I have learnt the basics about the concepts I can apply when coaching as a student advisor on a daily basis.