Leadership - what qualities does an effective leader and manager have?

What qualities does an effective business leader or manager have?  How do these qualities differ? This five minute video provides some interesting and engaging perspectives from a selection of employees.  Ok, so it’s a training video; but a high quality one and it is packed full of relevant business studies terminology too.

Set students the task of identifying at least three characteristics of effective leadership from the clip.  They might also highlight and then explain some of the many key terms packed into the video including:

Managers
Charismatic leader
Autocratic style
Goals and targets
Values
Teamwork
Delegation
Feedback
Productivity
Job satisfaction
Authority

BUSS4 - a clash of culture and a failed takeover [24 May 2012]
Measuring the competitiveness of a business [18 May 2012]
Revision Presentation - Operations and Technology [17 May 2012]
Revision Presentation - Improving Organisational Structures [17 May 2012]
Revision Presentation - Making Operational Decisions [17 May 2012]
BUSS2 Magic Formula [15 May 2012]
Paul Polman (Unilever CEO) on cultural change, leadership, Asia and Corporate Social Responsibility [27 Apr 2012]
Predictions of a dramatic change in the way goods are produced - and how it may change business [25 Apr 2012]
Irene Rosenfeld on Leadership, Transformation, and THAT takeover [18 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Leadership [5 Apr 2012]
Women & Leadership [22 Mar 2012]
Sony - All Change at the Top with a new CEO [12 Mar 2012]
Apple’s new CEO and a new iPad - A Change in Leadership [9 Mar 2012]
The 3Ds of management [18 Feb 2012]
The Strategic Challenges Facing International Airlines Group - Interview with Willie Walsh [14 Feb 2012]
The Leadership Style of Willie Walsh - In Quotes [14 Feb 2012]
Ideas not Hierarchy Makes a Business - Steve Jobs on Teamwork & Culture [13 Feb 2012]
Innovation in Business - Perspectives from Stephen Elop (CEO of Nokia) [12 Feb 2012]
Video resource: Do bonuses work as an incentive for better performance? [10 Feb 2012]
Happiness in the workplace still proving elusive [6 Feb 2012]
Leadership in a multinational business - what leadership style works best? [30 Jan 2012]
Leadership - Howard Schultz on the importance of leading an innovative culture [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - what is the best leadership style? It depends on the “situation”! [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - Tough decisions to turn Starbucks around [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - 40 examples of leadership at the movies in just 120 seconds [29 Jan 2012]
Schultz on Leadership, Love and the Competitive Advantage of Culture [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership - it’s not a popularity contest [29 Jan 2012]
Leadership and strategy: what decisions does the boss of Microsoft make? [29 Jan 2012]
Strategy Lessons from the Tesco Downfall [15 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation - Operational Objectives [3 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation - Economies of Scale & Resource Mix [3 Jan 2012]
Why is productivity rising in the US? [1 Jan 2012]
Straight-talking answers to business questions - the examiners might hate some of this! [12 Dec 2011]
Brilliant Video for Just in Time and Kaizen [4 Nov 2011]
Leadership video - A heartfelt apology from the boss [15 Oct 2011]
Management By Committee? Not At Apple [9 Oct 2011]
Leadership styles for effective change management - Morgan Freeman style [29 Sep 2011]
Autocratic leadership style in action - Basil v Manuel [22 Sep 2011]
Inspiring leadership? [19 Sep 2011]
Nurofen Plus and the importance of quality - [28 Aug 2011]
Leadership - Farewell to Steve Jobs [24 Aug 2011]
Automation and the arrival of 290,000 robots [2 Aug 2011]
The Case for Transformation [29 Jul 2011]
Sir Ken Robinson on Creative Leadership [20 Jul 2011]
Rupert Murdoch and Leadership - Should a CEO Know What’s Going On? [20 Jul 2011]
New study shows CSR pays dividends [11 Jul 2011]
Leaders’ Weaknesses [4 Jul 2011]
Leadership, Culture and Trust - A Letter from Sir Richard Branson [1 Jul 2011]
Retrenchment for Thorntons following strategic review [28 Jun 2011]
ResearchBuster: New Leaders and Strategic Change [16 Jun 2011]
CSR & Strategy - Why the Cooperative Group changed to survive [16 Jun 2011]
Leadership styles - the importance of listening [14 Jun 2011]
Leadership - a crisis of confidence? [13 Jun 2011]
What makes Ferguson great? [27 May 2011]
CSR - Can better social responsibility boost the UK economy by £17bn? [12 May 2011]
CSR and Business Legislation - The Bribery Act comes to town [5 May 2011]
Lesson Worksheet - Capacity Utilisation [5 May 2011]
Life in the chocolate factory - automation, productivity, motivation and culture [24 Apr 2011]
Leadership and the Golden Circle [21 Apr 2011]
Leadership - a triumph of youth over experience? [6 Apr 2011]
Leadership Resource - Every Little Helps [16 Mar 2011]
Howard Schultz - A Changed Starbucks. A Changed C.E.O [13 Mar 2011]
8 minutes of Daniel Pink on What Motivates Workers [7 Mar 2011]
Nestle - using branding & productivity to overcome commodity price increases [17 Feb 2011]
Leadership - can Apple really be a one-man band? [19 Jan 2011]
Training, social immobility and tuition fees - KPMG’s blueprint solution [13 Jan 2011]
Lessons in leadership [5 Jan 2011]
Q&A - Explain what is meant by labour productivity and how it can be measured? [28 Dec 2010]
Meet Sir Terry Leahy at the Business Teacher National Conference 2011 [18 Dec 2010]
Bruce Poon Tip exploits a huge Gap in the adventure market [12 Dec 2010]
Leadership in action - A Day in the Life of Willie Walsh [25 Oct 2010]
Rationalising & Redeployment at Alliance Boots [9 Oct 2010]
Leadership skills of the new CEO drive profits at Pret [8 Oct 2010]
Culture & Change - The Challenge Facing Nokia [27 Sep 2010]
Leadership & Strategy - “Welcome to Nokia” [20 Sep 2010]
Can new leadership revive Nokia’s fortunes [12 Sep 2010]
Ryanair contemplates a change in leadership style? [12 Sep 2010]
Recession Strategy - Manufacturing Emerges Leaner and Fitter [25 Aug 2010]
Lesson worksheet - Organisational Structure Basics [26 Jul 2010]
AQA BUSS4 Section B Practice Question - Starbucks [15 Jun 2010]
Emerging Stronger - How UK Businesses Responded to the Recession [14 Jun 2010]
What must it feel like to be the ‘most hated’ CeO? [10 Jun 2010]
Managing People - Will Staff Turnover Increase as the UK Emerges from the Recession [2 Jun 2010]
Recession Strategy - For Airlines it is all about Unit Costs [2 Jun 2010]
Sir Richard Branson on Virgin Atlantic Business Strategy [26 May 2010]
BUSS4 - Leadership in a Changing Environment [16 May 2010]
Leadership comes to the fore in post-recession UK business [3 May 2010]
The Sense of a Goose [28 Apr 2010]
Build a Tower - Build a Team [22 Apr 2010]
A useful resource on leadership and management [22 Apr 2010]
BUSS4 - Building exam skills [21 Apr 2010]
Starbucks - the Famous Strategic Change Memo from 2007 [21 Apr 2010]
Motivation, Leadership & Culture: Ban the Boss (BBC) [24 Mar 2010]
BUSS4 Research - a Corus of Disapproval [1 Mar 2010]
Strategy in the UK Recession - What 69 UK CEOs Did About It [22 Feb 2010]
Strategies for the Recession - Insights from Six Restaurant Group CEOs [19 Feb 2010]
Is the cost-conscious UK consumer here to stay? [16 Feb 2010]
Amazing Production Video [15 Feb 2010]
Contingency planning failure leads to customer service disaster [12 Feb 2010]
Who would you place as the 50 emerging business leaders of the world? [3 Feb 2010]

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