Unit 5 Review

Note: Unit 5 represents the mid-point of the course. As such, this Unit is structured in a different manner than your other units. This Unit provides student’s with an opportunity to catch up on any outstanding assignments. It also provides student’s with an opportunity to revisit past content, or review the supplemental content (outlined in this unit), to prepare for the second half of the course.

Overview

This unit has been structured to provide you with an opportunity to catch up on reading, assignments and taking a break from posting course related materials. It does not, however, stop you from reviewing the materials listed in this unit. You will have opportunity to view several videos and a few optional reading items to help you review, assess, explore and understand Strategic Leadership concepts better.

Additionally, if you want to make an appointment with the instructor during this week to discuss anything related to your course work, the resources listed in this unit, course progression or any other issue you need to connect with them on, please feel free to contact them and make a time to get together, in person, via Skype/ZOOM, or phone.

Learning Outcomes

This week is intended for review and preparation - there are no learning outcomes that you will be responsible for knowing.

Supporting Resources

Here are some supplemental resources that you can review to help better your understanding of strategic leadership:

• Delahaye Paine, K. (2011). Measure What Matters: Online Tools for Understanding Customers, Social Media Engagement, and Key Relationships. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  
• Eurich, T. (2013). Bankable Leadership: Happy People, Bottom-Line Results, and the Power to Deliver Both. Greenleaf Book Group: Austin, TX.
  
• Friedman, Mark (2005). Trying Hard is Not Good Enough. How to Produce Measurable Improvements for Customers and Communities FPSI Publishing.
  
• Ulrich, D., Smallwood, N., (2013). Leadership Sustainability: Seven Disciplines to Achieve the Changes Great Leaders Know They Must Make. Toronto: McGraw Hill Education.

Use this week to read through each one as you prepare for the second half of the course.

• Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
  
• Canada’s Top 100 Employers
  
• Non-Financial Risk Management Insights Series: Implementing an integrated framework for financial institutions
  
• Great Places to Work: Scan through the various categories of “great places to work
  
• Guide to Evaluating Collective Impact Lessons in Leadership: The Case for Servant Leadership in Finance
  
• Responsible Restructuring: Seeing Employees as Assets, Not Costs
  
• We Just Hired a Chief People Officer (Why You Should, Too)

A Transformational Understanding of Financial Information This is a slideshow (mostly text-based). Sample of 3 slides shown instead

• Building Corporate Social Responsibility Through Servant-Leadership
  
• Responsible Restructuring: Seeing Employees As Assets, Not Costs
  
• Gapminder

Video Resources

This section provides some video links that will help support your understanding of the content that will follow in the coming weeks. Take some time to look through each one as you prepare for the second half of the course.

• The Best Place to Work in America
  
• Why SAS is the Best Place to Work
  
• ZAPPOS is a Weird Company
  
• Zappos Interview with Chief Culture Officer Jon Wolske
  
• The Zappos Family - How They Work
  
• Zappos Employee Fit and Work Culture (The Zappos Experience by Joseph Michelli

Optional Resources

• Business Plan Template: A Step-by-Step Guide For Entrepreneurs
  
• Financial Leadership: What’s It All About?
  
• Making Investments in People Count: Measurement, Alignment, and Optimization
  
• Evaluating Collective Impact Assessing Progress
  
• Measuring Shared Value