Course materials

Mattersey Hall
BA in Leadership
LEA502 Organisational Leadership

Course outline
Module Descriptor
Essay titles

Understanding Leadership
Powerpoint slides

Challenges facing third-sector organisations
From Management to Leadership
Transformational and transactional leadership
Vision, mission, and strategic planning
Cultural issues in leadership

The Windsor Leadership Trust have links to a lot of useful papers on leadership.
The report What is Leadership? gives a good summary of the development of leadership thinking.

Understanding Organisations
Powerpoint slides

Governance - the role of trustees
NCVO models of governance
2005 Code of Good Governance (and short summary)

NGO Manager Organisational Assessment Tool
DOSA (Discussion-oriented Organisational Self-Assessment)


Organisational models - the gods of management
Organisational models - the Competing Values Framework
Competing Values questionnaire
Organisational models - networks in the Third Wave


Understanding People
Powerpoint slides

An introduction to managing people
An introduction to Situational Leadership
Balancing task, team and individual needs

Belbin Team Roles questionnaire
Belbin Team Roles analysis


Understanding Change
Powerpoint slides

An introduction to change management
GANTT charts (and sample GANTT chart)
Critical Path Analysis

Stakeholder Analysis

Comparing Classic/Scientific and Dynamic/Non-Linear change methods
Managing Change in Dynamic/Non-Linear Systems
Websites that include other material on dynamic/non-linear approaches to change include:

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