To meet the challenges of doing business the global technology sector, product managers need to combine professional competence with a fundamental grasp of the process and the complexities of leadership at the personal, team and organisational levels.
This module will introduce students to the classic personality theories, encouraging critical evaluation of these. The major theories will include: psychoanalytic theory; humanistic theories; social cognitive theory; and Type and Trait perspectives. All participants complete the NEOPIR and MBTI as an integral facet of self-reflection.
The module will also invite participants to critically reflect on how product managers can lead through influence. It will address how to best enable and empower product managers in their role as ‘boundary spanners’. The module provides an understanding of the key elements of leadership and allows participants to better understand their own and others’ leadership preferences and styles, framed within the context of Product, People and Process and the fundamental competencies of the 21st century product manager.
The Dynamics of Personality, Self-Development & Career Competencies
- Definitions and Understandings, Nomothetic VS Idiographic
- Psychoanalytic theory;
- Psychometric Assessment EQi, Trait theory vs Type Theory
- NEO – PI-3 vs MBTI & Belbin Team Roles
- John Holland’s RIASEC & Links to O*NET
Leadership
- Introduction to the Practice of Product Management Leadership.
- Building high-impact Product Management teams
- Leadership Theories: Trait Approach, Situational and Contingency Leadership, Transformational versus Transactional Leadership, Authentic Leadership
- Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Definitions, Sub Components, Links with Intelligence and Personality.
- Critical Leadership Skills: Motivation, Decision Making, Delegation, Team Building
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Characteristics and attributes
- Identifying strengths and leadership gaps and plotting a course
The content will be delivered through discursive lectures, case studies and interactive self- reflection exercises. Lectures, breakouts and cases will be used to stimulate and guide discussion. Participants will be encouraged to be candid and open in class discussions to support enhanced learning. Participants will also be encouraged to reflect the best practices as identified during the module onto their own professional/organisational experiences. Pre-class reading, in-class exercises and post class assignments will contribute positively to the learning on the module.
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |