[MUSIC] Welcome, I'm Richard Boyatzis. And on behalf of my colleagues, Professors
Diana Ellen Melvin Smith, and Ron Frey. I'd like to bring you the fifth MOOC
in our leadership specialization in inspiring leadership, called,
be a leader, develop a leader. In this MOOC you'll have two
assignments to give you more practice at being a leader. And two assignments to give you practice
in developing others as leaders. Up to this point,
you've gone through four MOOCs. You've learned about inspiring leadership
through emotional intelligence. You've learned about engaging people in inspirational conversations
through coaching. And women in leadership. And then positive change
through appreciative inquiry. We now are at the point where we want to
give you a chance to practice some of the skills and techniques and perspectives
you've been learning in the other MOOCs. In a sense, following intentional change
theory, this is the actual fourth stage where you've been experimenting
with each of these activities and applying them to yourself and
others in the book. Now, we're going to give
you another chance, but at this point,
it should be more practicing. And if all goes well with the feedback, by the end of this MOOC you
may be able to live your life. Inspire your family, your friends and your colleagues to do things that would
be great for your organizations, for your communities, and
like I said, for your families. This MOOC has a fairly simple structure. There are four assignments,
one coming out of each of the prior MOOCs. From the first MOOC, we're asking you to do a more detailed
version of your personal vision. In the inspiring leadership through
emotional intelligence MOOC I had asked you to, several times, get involved
in developing parts of your vision. Well, now we're going to give
you some more detailed questions in the written instructions and guide you through writing a more holistic,
more comprehensive vision. We're targeting something in the 1,000 to
1,500 words, but something where you feel like it could capture what really
will pull you to a desired future. The second assignment, building on that,
would come from the course on inspiring conversations through coaching that Melvin
Smith and Ellen Van Osteen and I did. And in this one we're going
to ask you to go out and find another person that you
did not coach through the MOOC. And give them the complete coaching cycle, through the entire internal
change five stages. Specifically, we're
asking you to have three one hour coaching sessions with them. One, the first one primarily focused
on bringing out their personal vision. Their image of the future
they would love to happen. The second hour, engaging them in
a conversation about their strengths and about their weaknesses. And in the third hour,
helping them work into a plan. A plan that they're excited about for
the future. We're hoping that these three one hour
sessions are spaced out by at least three or five days, or maybe even a week, to
give the other person that you're coaching a chance to reflect on these issues. Here again, we're going to ask you
to write it up in five or six pages, should be between a 1,000 and 1,500 words. And to address some of the specific
topics that are outlined in the written assignment. The third action learning assignment
comes from Professor MOOC on women in leadership. We'd like you to identify
two senior executive women in your organization, or another one. And then we want you to interview them and
find out about their path, their career path, their life path. What are the kinds of people that
have helped them along the way? What are the kinds of
obstacles they've run into? What's the nature of what they've been
able to achieve and how they got there that might be particular to women and
sometimes members of other visible minority groups, when they can
finally reach top leadership positions? Again, in writing it up, submitting it
in about a 1,000 to 1,500 word essay. The fourth assignment comes out
of Professor Ron Frye's MOOC on leading positive change
through appreciative inquiry. And for
this we're going to ask you to expand and redo one of the sets of
assignments you did in his MOOC. So, we're going to ask you to
think about in your organization, or if you're not working in one right now
then at least an organization that you are affiliated with in the community or
professionally. To think about,
what are the compelling topics or challenges the organization is facing and
how can you frame them in a positive way? And then, to design an appreciative
inquiry summit process that you can use following the various
steps that Professor Frye explained. Get it to the point where it’s detailed
enough that, by the time you do it, it’s going to feel like deja vu. Again, we’d like you to write it up in
about 1,000 to 1,500 word essay and submit it. Each one of these essays will then
be previewed by others of you taking this capstone MOOC. So again, the objectives of this MOOC are
simply, one, to really give you a chance to practice the fundamental skills and
knowledge that you were exposed to, and got a little bit of a chance to
work on in the earlier four MOOCs. And secondly,
to form a capstone, if you will, recognition that you've reached a higher
state of understanding and skills. And that you're ready to share more of
these capabilities with others around you. And through that, help make your
organizations a better place. So, we look forward to reading
your assignments, and good luck. [MUSIC]