Center for Leadership Development and Research

The Center has developed a series of leadership case videos around key leadership topics. In each video, leaders present a real leadership challenge, the issues they grappled with and how they ultimately handled each situation.

The Leadership in Focus series is fully supported with discussion guides and role-plays and provide the instructor with teaching flexibility. Several cases can be strung together to create a class, or an individual short case can be used at the end of an already prepared class to bring to life a particular leadership concept.

The videos provide several advantages over a written case:

• The videos convey emotion. Complex interpersonal leadership issues, which can be difficult to articulate in written case form, are highlighted well in the videos.
• The videos enable students to better interpret non-verbal cues about the leader and the situation.
• Students are challenged to react quickly to the situation as it unfolds and encouraged to put themselves 'in the leader's shoes' (this is often accomplished through role-playing).

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