What you'll learn:
- The importance of cultural diversity
- The importance of age diversity
- Working in a multi-generational office
- The Skeldon approach
- Dressing gown theory
- Artificial Intelligence and Generation Alpha
- How to motivate Baby Boomers AND Millennials
- Industrial Organisational Strategy
- Leadership in India
- Generation Alpha - and the challenges posed
- Generation Z - and the problems posed
IMPORTANT: This course has an emphasis on discussion - the course is to a world-wide global class. We can all learn from one another. This long Diploma course is serious and workbooks and assignments are set. Leadership is not about watching videos alone but discussing, considering, suggesting and then making decisions. The Educational Announcements and the Q/A ensure that this course is always up to date.
Recent review:
"love detailed oriented people, and this instructor not only has a vision, he takes the best time to explain himself and his method"
Lectures added June 2025:
Generation Alpha and aging parents
AI and Generation Alpha
Generation Beta
Lectures added in April 2024:
Decision-making and team dynamics
Nurturing an inclusive environment
Reflections on the role of the leader
Key takeaways
This course is split into three sections:
Generations:
Generations in workplace
8 things to know Millennials
Generation alpha
The Skeldon approach
Cultural diversity
Benefits
Dressing Gown theory
Challenges
Management
Managing Baby Boomers
Managing a multi-generational workplace
The emphasis throughout in giving practical examples and the setting of research topics. You - the students from 166 countries - know far more than I do about your own culture, your own skills and your own workplace environments. I bring to the course my academic and work-based background, (too many) years of experience and a willingness to listen.
Many many lectures about the generations - interspersed with clips from films which I had the privilege of acting in - and some exercises/questions for you to answer.
Theorists?
Maslow
Herzberg
Taylor
McGregor
Skeldon approach
Dressing gown theory
So, some new(ish) and some old.
But all are relevant.
An important feature of this course is that several lectures include Case Studies, written in July 2024. It is by doing Case Studies, applying knowledge, discussing, re-evaluating and participating with other course members, that real learning takes place. The course leads to the Oxford Diploma.
