Master of Management (MM)

Leadership

Module

The role of the leader is always important - he sets the goal, mobilizes the team, gives an example, and ensures that the result is achieved. And in a period of uncertainty, the role of a leader becomes critical: first of all, he provides clarity on what we will do, calms people down, or vice versa - energizes and mobilizes a onfused team, and is also the person who can, and sometimes has to, make unpopular decisions.

Dr. Alisa Miniotaitė

Head of Module

Leadership

The objective of the module

The purpose of the module is to answer the questions: why am I choosing the path of leadership, what can I offer to my followers and why should people follow me?

Why should you choose this module?

This module is for you if you want to rally people around you, if you lead an organization or a community, a team, a department and you want to be a good leader for yourself

Module results

After completing the module, you will know about different types of leadership, their advantages and disadvantages, you will acquire competences that will allow you to form a leader-follower relationship, create a vision and meaning for employees.

Lithuanian

1 semester

2024 m. spring

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Details about the module

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What will you learn?

Main topics

Lecturers

About module

In the module, we convey the knowledge of leadership and organizational behavior accumulated and tested over many years, we analyze and measure modern leadership schools, we learn to recognize and create the meaning of leadership for others. Finally, we answer the questions why I choose the path of leadership, what vision can I offer followers and why should people follow me?

What will you learn?

After completing this module you will be able to:

know and evaluate yourself, your priorities and values, the limits of your responsibility, to understand the origin of the need to be a leader;
understand the concepts and differences between management and leadership;
apply classic theories of leadership (trait, behavior, situational, transactional leadership);
to allocate, explain and apply the knowledge of modern leadership schools - transformational, charismatic, authentic, serving, shared leadership;
understand the dark side of leadership – the problem and manifestation of toxic and Machiavellian leadership;
to know the essence of the leaderfollower relationship, the stages of development, the significance of the leadership result and to influence them; to know the phenomenon of following and types of followers;
understand and know the components of leadership: vision, inspiring followers, creating meaning and creating vision and meaning for followers;
improvise, surprise, control your body and feel comfortable speaking in public;
to shape the culture of organizations and communities;
motivate people, mobilize them for a common result;
be your own leader;
encourage and nurture the leadership of others.

Main topics

Main topics of the module:

Classical management and leadership theories
Neuroscience in leadership
Contemporary leadership schools: Charismatic, Transformational, Servant, Authentic, Shared Leadership
Existential concept of personality
The dark side of leadership. Toxic leadership
Acting skills and improvisation. Leader's body language
Leadership ethics, leadership dilemmas
Leader-follower relationship
The leader as a shaper of organizational culture. The culture of a winning organization
Being your own leader

Lecturers

Doc. Dr. Alisa Miniotaitė

Doctor of social sciences
Associate professor of ISM University
Head of the ISM Leadership study program
Founder of ALISA MANAGEMENT LABORATORY, operating in the Baltic countries and Scandinavia
Baltijos šalyse bei Skandinavijoje, įkūrėja
Certified ICC coaching coach for the Baltic countries
Member of the Academy of Management and the International Leadership Association, did internships
at the Universities of Denmark, Norway and the USA
Hosts the radio show "The Leader's Dilemma" for managers and leaders
Prepares commentaries for Lithuanian and foreign news portals;
Co-author of the book "Leadership".
Has been consulting Lithuanian and foreign companies for more than 15 years, conducting training for their employees

Dr. Rimantas Kočiūnas

Professor of the Clinical and Organizational Psychology Department of Vilnius University, Doctor of
Psychology, Director of the Institute of Humanistic and Existential Psychology
Has conducted over 100 seminars, existential experience groups in Lithuania, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia and lecture cycles at various European universities on the main topics of existential psychology and therapy
73 scientific publications published in various scientific journals in Lithuania, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Yugoslavia, Germany, Bulgaria, Finland, Holland, USA, Sweden, England
Author of monographs "Fundamentals of psychological counseling", Group psychotherapy in Lithuania: theoretical models and their application" (compiler), "Psychotherapeutic groups: theory and practice"

Dr. Oyvind Kvalnes

Philosopher, associate professor at BI Norwegian School of Management, Department of Leadership
Discussion moderator, lecturer, training leader
For 10 years, he headed the Humanities Academy in Oslo
Author of three books and numerous scientific articles
Areas of interest: leadership, leadership ethics, wisdom in leadership, football economics, social responsibility

Dr. Gintautas Mažeikis

Professor of philosophy at Vytautas Magnus University, visiting professor at foreign universities
Author of monographs and many articles in Lithuanian and foreign publications
Field of scientific interests: philosophy of history, cultural and philosophical anthropology

Kirilas Glušajevas

Actor, director, art director
In 2008 graduated from drama theater director's bachelor's studies (course supervisor: Rimas Tuminas)
In 2004-2005 he studied at Dartington College of Arts in Great Britain
2007-2008 attended the improvisation course of Andriaus Žebrauskas at LMTA, has been participating in the activities of the only professional improvisation theater KITAS KAMPAS in Lithuania since its foundation
Since 2012, one of the leaders of the improvisation theater
In 2015 took the position of Artistic Director of the KITAS KAMPAS theater
Teaches Theatrical Improvisation at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater as a guest specialist
Since 2017 - Head of the creative part in the State Vilnius Small Theatre

WHAT OUR ALUMNI SAY

“My thoughts on the module. Although I was trying to express it in various ways, I still think it is best described in this one single sentence: this module is designed to discover yourself: as a leader, as a follower, as a person."

Laura Joffė

"Ermitažas" Chief Financial Officer, ISM Executive School module "Leadership" alumnus

WHAT OUR ALUMNI SAY

"If you are afraid of the wolf, don't go to the forest. You are afraid to know yourself and understand the transience of life - do not take on the leadership module. Thanks to this module, you not only give yourself a final answer to the question of what is the difference between a manager and a leader, you also understand what kind of leader you want to be and which personal qualities you need to improve in order for others to believe in you and your vision."

Modestas Ancius

CEO of "Baltneta", ISM Executive School module "Leadership" alumnus

WHAT OUR ALUMNI SAY

Mano supratimas apie lyderystę žlugo jau pirmoje paskaitoje. „Lyderystės“ modulis buvo puikus pasirinkimas studijų pradžiai. ISM Vadovų magistrantūros studijos labai mane pakeitė - dirbau su savo vidumi, apmąsčiau savo tikslus, kolegų ir įmonės tikslus. Šis modulis reikalavo daug pastangų ir savęs paieškos atsakyti į nepatogius klausimus. Suprasti, kodėl elgiuosi vienaip ar kitaip. Norint tapti geresniu lyderiu, būtina pradėti nuo vidinio išsivalymo ir tobulėjimo.