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Building Leadership Teams, Resistance School (Online course by video)

Marshall Ganz, Resistance School
  • Type

    Videos

  • Region

    North America

  • Practice

    Team structure

  • Language

    English

In this online course produced by Resistance School, Professor Marshall Ganz shares the fundamentals of why structure matters and how to build leadership structures starting with building your team. Follow along with the videos below to understand how to build organizing structure based on shared commitment, shared purpose, roles and norms.

Lesson 1- Definition of Leadership

Learn a new way to think about leadership that focuses on understanding your story, your relationship to others, and why now is the time to act.

Lesson 2 – Definition of Organizing

Learn a new way to think about organizing that focuses on the question, “who are my people?”

Lesson 3 – Professor Ganz’s Organizing Story

Learn about Professor Ganz’s personal journey through organizing and academia, and learn from the way he shares his own story of self.

Lesson 4 – Disorganization v. Organization

Learn to recognize important elements that distinguish an effective organization from a “disorganization.”

Lesson 5 – How to Structure a Team

Learn why it is important to structure a leadership team that doesn’t depend on just one person.

Lesson 6 – Distributed Leadership

Learn a new model of leadership of an organization that increases the probability of achieving the goal, that helps an organization grow in capacity, and that provides opportunities for growth and development.

Lesson 7 – Launching a Team

Learn how to launch a team by coming up with a shared purpose, setting norms and determining specific roles.

Lesson 8 – Determining a Shared Purpose

Watch a team model how to determine their shared purpose, then debrief what you thought worked and what didn’t work.

Lesson 9 – Determining Norms

Watch a team model how to determine their norms, then debrief what you thought worked or didn’t work.

Lesson 10 – Determining Roles

Watch a team model how to determine their roles, then debrief what you thought worked or didn’t work.

Lesson 11 – Determining Team Identity

Watch a team model how to determine their name and chant, then debrief what you thought worked or didn’t work.

Lesson 12 – How to Applaud

Learn a new method of applauding with purpose!

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