Hi my name is Jasper Meijering, - and my name Yaron Hendirks - and I’m Thijs de Vos.
As teaching assistants we are part of the supporting course team of this MOOC.
We are standing here in a lecture room of Delft University of Technology.
If have to fit all of you into this lecture hall,
we would need 167 lecture halls like this!.
With more than 25.000 enrolled in this mooc, there are more students enrolled in this course
then there are currently studying at the TU Delft.
We would like to congratulate you with almost reaching the end of the course!
But before it’s time for the Final exam, we want to give you a brief wrap up of the
last weeks .
In week one, Hans en Gerdien explained that leadership
is highly context-related.
You also learned that three characteristics of the world in which leaders operate are
that there is a network of interdependencies, Problems are wicked or unstructured,
And the world is dynamic.
In this week, we also asked you to post cartoons of leadership
on the discussion forum.
We thought most of them showed what it requires to be a good leader.
And some students even made the effort to draw a cartoon themselves.
In week 2, two mindsets of a leader were discussed:
a project-based mindset and a process-based mindset.
On the discussion forum most of you told us which style fits you best.
The average answer consisted of a mix of styles, due to the fact that leadership is very much
context related as you learnt in week 1.
In week 2 and 3 some personal characteristics of leaders from were covered by Stefaan and
Surya.
Besides, you were taught how to evaluate your own strengths
and behavior.
For us, it was really nice to hear the positive reactions
on meditations.
Week 3 elaborated on your personal charter.
The personal charter can really help you during your life and career decisions.
Furthermore, we taught you how your emotions work and how
they can influence your daily life and discussed the effect of positive and negative emotions,
learned optimism, stress and the amygdala hijack.
The last chapter of this MOOC was devoted to connecting your learnings from the previous
2 parts: the theory on highly complex,
networked environments- to your personal characteristics: your strengths and your weaknesses.
We further explained the leadership styles that were briefly introduced to you in week
2 of the MOOC, with the clips on Jack,
John, Jeff and Jay.
In light of the triple bottom line we introduced another leadership style that is hopefully
able to capture the current level of complexity in this world in a better way:
sustainable leadership.
The assignment of this last chapter was to come up with your own leadership style,
that you observed in your region, culture or work environment.
We have seen very promising submissions!
We like to highlight the leadership style provided by Kevin from Peru.
He shared the transactional leadership style with us.
A transactional leader runs transactions with his staff.
In addition to the leadership styles, TU Delft alumnus Pieter Ligthart and Dana
Kruegerr finally infused you with some essential advises to enhance your career opportunities
and improve the quality of your working live.
We would like to thank you for your participation in this MOOC.
We loved the participation with you guys from all over the world.
We want to wish you good luck with the final exam and your further career.
So bye from the TU Delft!
Bye!