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Welcome to Better Leader, Richer Life!Welcome to Better Leader, Richer Life! Our class is now open.
Our course team is excited to begin our work together with you and to start your journey toward
becoming a better leader by having a richer life, and having a richer life by becoming a better
leader. We'll be posting announcements and updates on this page regularly, so please review it
often.
Let's get started! Week 1 Assignment is now open, and is due on February 15, 11:59 PM
EST
All the information you need to succeed in our course can be accessed on the left navigation bar
of this page. Please read our Syllabus and review our Course Policies for details on grading
and earning a Statement of Accomplishment or Verified Certificate. You can participate in our
course on either the Individual Track or theCommunity Track -- one or the other, but not both.
Please review the links in the left navigation bar to decide which track is right for you, then dive in
and get started with our content as soon as you can!
Our content -- lectures, assignments, resources
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Visit our Video Lectures page to view each week's videos. Week 1's lectures are now
available for viewing. Watch them now and join your classmates in our Discussion Forum with
your insights and observations about them.
Use the Individual Track or the Community Track links to see each week's assignment. Week
1's assignment is easy and fun. It is now open for all students. Don't wait to get started! You'll
get the most value from our course by doing each assignment as soon as possible after it is
open, which is every Sunday at 12:00 PM EST.
Go to our Resources page for examples of excellent assignments, notes, links, and further
readings.
Our community -- forums, social media, meetups, study groups, and other ways to
connect
Join our Discussion Forums and enhance your learning by interacting with your classmates
and our Community Teaching Assistants (who are alumni of our course).
Engage with fellow students on Twitter #TotalLeadership (follow @StewFriedman)
and Facebook.
Follow and comment on my posts, like this one, on LinkedIn.
I encourage you to find other ways to connect, such as in meetups with classmates in your
area, in virtual study groups, or other means available to you. Do whatever you can to contribute
to our community of developing leaders.
If you have questions, post them in our Discussion Forum and we'll try to answer them as quickly
as possible. We have a cadre of amazing Community Teaching Assistants who are all graduates
of our course, and they will work to answer your questions and help guide you through our course
as well.
On behalf of the Better Leader, Richer Life team, thanks for being part of our learning community,
Stew
P.S. -- I just published an article on HBR.org that is about our course.
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Prof. Stewart D. Friedman
Director, Wharton Work/Life Integration Project
Founder, Total Leadership
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Better Leader, Richer Life now open for
previewI hope you’re looking forward to the official start of our course, Better Leader, Richer Life, on February 8 at 12:00 PM EST!
You can now view the video lectures for Week 1 and get familiar with our course site, including the two different tracks you can take our course in: The Community Track and the Individual Track. TheDiscussion Forums are open now -- we encourage you to join the conversation -- and the Week 1 assignment will be open on February 8 through February 15. It is not too late for new students to sign up.
If you know someone -- a friend, colleague, family member -- who would benefit from participating in our learning community, why not invite them today to register for Better Leader, Richer Life?
Our course team, including Community TAs who are graduates from our first two sessions, is looking forward to beginning our work together.
P.S. -- I just published an article on HBR.org that is about our course.
Until then, Stew
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Prof. Stewart D. Friedman
Director, Wharton Work/Life Integration Project
Founder, Total Leadership
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This course is about growing as a leader in all parts of your life and having fun while doing
so. You watch video lectures, do weekly assignments (including conversations with
important people in your life and real-world actions you take to improve your performance in
all parts of your life), give and receive peer feedback (but only if you choose to follow the
Community Track), and take a final exam. Students can choose to complete this course in either the Individual Track or the Community Track.
Please note, you do not need to make a "selection" anywhere to choose your track, you simply follow the assignments listed for that track by clicking on the link in the left hand navigation column.
Individual Track
Watch videos weekly
Answer assignment questions in a personal journal
(not shared with others on Coursera)
Complete quizzes weekly
Complete final exam
There is no required peer assessment in the Individual Track, though students are encouraged to
share questions and ideas in our discussion forum.
Community Track
Watch videos weekly
Submit assignments weekly that are then
assessed by classmates
Provide written feedback on and assess at least
three different classmates' assignments weekly
Complete final exam
Week 1: Starting Total Leadership
1.1: Launch your Total Leadership experience
1.2: Learn the Total Leadership principles and method
1.3: Assess your skills and define your goals
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1.4: Review our course plan
Week 2: Clarifying What's Important
2.1: Tell the story of your values
2.2: Share your leadership vision
2.3: Take the four-way view
2.4: Give and receive coaching
Week 3: Seeing Your Life as a System
3.1: Identify key stakeholders
3.2: Understand performance expectations
3.3: See your life as a system you can change
3.4: Consider the media you use
Week 4: Talking to Your Stakeholders
4.1: Understand the purpose of stakeholder dialogues
4.2: Chart your course and then adjust it
4.3: Look through their eyes and find common ground
4.4: Build and restore trust
Week 5: Thinking About Creating Change
5.1: Glean insights from dialogues
5.2: Learn about Total Leadership experiments
5.3: Generate ideas for your experiments
Week 6: Designing Experiments
6.1: Choose the most promising idea
6.2: Set your game plan and scorecard
6.3: Get in the game!
Week 7: Bringing Others Along With You
7.1: Be artfully political
7.2: Build social capital
7.3: Make a difference, beyond what you can see
Week 8: Leading the Life You Want
8.1: Learn how exemplary leaders integrate work and life
8.2: Choose the skills you want to focus on next
Week 9: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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9.1: Reflect on your progress and distill lessons
9.2: Tell your leadership story
Week 10: Continuing the Journey
10.1: Share the big ideas
10.2: Commence
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Format
Weekly video lectures
Weekly assignments
Weekly peer evaluations (Community Track)
Weekly quizzes (Individual Track)
Final exam
Discussion board participation (recommended)
Grading
Students can chose to follow either the Individual Track or the Community Track for our course.
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Please note that, while it is possible to switch between the two tracks during our ten-week
session, your final score will be the higher total score of your work in either the Individual Track or
the Community Track – as described below – and not a combination of the two.
Individual Track
Students who choose to follow the Individual Track watch the weekly videos, answer assignment
questions in a personal journal (not shared with others on the Coursera platform for our course),
complete short weekly quizzes, and take the final exam. There is no required peer assessment in
the individual Track, though you are encouraged to share your questions and ideas by
participating in our Discussion Forums.
The total possible number of points that can be earned in the Individual Track is 75, as follows:
Weekly quizzes (25 points toward the final course
grade): Multiple-choice quizzes to be taken after
viewing each week’s lectures
Final exam (50 points toward the final course grade):
25 multiple-choice questions
Scoring
Quizzes and the final exam are submitted through our
course website and are graded by machine.
Example 1
A student scores a total of 20 points on the weekly quizzes and 20 points on the final exam:
20 * 1 = 20 points for weekly quizzes
20 * 2 = 40 points for final exam
Final grade = 60 out of 75 points, scaled to a 60%
final grade on the 100 point Coursera grading scale.
Please note that the highest possible final course score in the Individual Track is 75%. If
you earn all of the possible points in the Individual Track, your final course score will be 75% (or,
75 points on the 100 point Coursera grading scale).
Community Track
Students who choose to follow the Community Track watch the weekly videos, submit weekly
assignments that are assessed by classmates, provide written feedback on and assess three
classmates' assignments, and complete the final exam. Click here for guidelines on peer
feedback and assessment.
The total possible number of points that can be earned in the Community Track is 100, as follows:
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Weekly assignments (25% of final grade for
course): You are asked to compose written
responses to questions each week (except for
Weeks 8 and 10) after watching the video
lectures. Though some assignments require
more effort than others, they carry the same
weight toward the final course grade. Each
assignment is worth 3.125% of the final grade.
There are 8 assignments and your responses
are assessed by three classmates simply as
follows: 1 = Complete or 0 = Incomplete. Your
score for each assignment is the median of
those received from your classmates, and this
can be 0, .5, or 1, multiplied by 3.125.
Peer evaluation and feedback (50% of final grade for
course): You are asked to do up to 25 peer
evaluations in total. Each peer evaluation is
worth 2% of the final grade. A peer evaluation
must include a minimum of 20 words of
qualitative written feedback and a score (either
1 or 0) given to assess whether your
classmate’s assignment was completed or not.
Final exam (25% of final grade for course) 25 multiple-
choice questions
Scoring
Quizzes and the final exam are submitted through our
course website and are graded by machine.
Assignments, peer evaluations, and final exam are
submitted through the course website.
Weekly assignments are assessed as either complete
(score of 1) or incomplete (score of 0) by your
classmates, using the median (either 0, .5, or 1) as
your score for that assignment.
You earn credit for submitting up to a total of 25 peer
evaluations for other students during the course – three
per week plus one. You are welcome to submit more
than 25 if you would like, but you will not earn credit
toward your final grade for any evaluations beyond 25.
The multiple-choice final exam is graded by machine.
Example 2
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A student who posts 5 weekly assignments and earns a score of 1 on each, writes 15 peer
evaluations, and scores 15 on the final exam earns:
5 * 3.125 = 15.6 points for assignments
15 * 2 = 30 points for peer evaluation
15 * 1 = 15 points for the final exam
Final grade = 60.6 out of 100 points, or 60.6%
Example 3
A student who posts 7 weekly assignments and earns a score of 1 on each, writes 21 peer
evaluations, and scores 22 on the final exam earns:
7 * 3.125 = 21.9 points for assignments
21 * 2 = 42 points for peer evaluation
22 * 1 = 22 points for the final exam
Final grade = 85.9 out of 100 points, or 85.9%
Statement of Accomplishment and SoA with Distinction
Individual Track
To earn a Statement of Accomplishment in the
Individual Track, you must score a minimum of
60 out of 75 points, or a final course grade of at
least 60% on the 100 point Coursera grading scale.
It is not possible to earn a Statement of
Accomplishment with Distinction in the
Individual Track.
Community Track
To earn a Statement of Accomplishment in the
Community Track, you must score a minimum of
60 out of 100 points, or a final course grade of at
least 60% on the 100 point Coursera grading scale.
To earn a Statement of Accomplishment with
Distinction, you must score a minimum of 85 out
of 100 points, or 85% for your final grade for our
course. This is only possible in the Community
Track.
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Signature Track and Verified Certificate
Students enrolled in the Signature Track program who complete the required verification and
earn the required minimum number of points in either the Individual Track or the Community
Track or will earn a Verified Certificate.
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Instructor
Stew Friedman has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984. He became the Management
Department’s first Practice Professor for his work on applying theory and research to the real
challenges facing organizations. As founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program, in
1991 he initiated the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses. He is also founding
director of Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project.
Stew’s most recent book is Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and
Life (Harvard Business, 2014). It builds on his award-winning bestseller,Total Leadership: Be a
Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Harvard Business, 2008), which has been translated into six
languages. The program it describes is his challenging Wharton course, in which participants
complete an intensive series of real-world exercises designed to increase their leadership
capacity and performance in all parts of their lives by better integrating them, while working in
high-involvement peer-to-peer coaching relationships and completing much of the activity online
in a cutting-edge social learning environment. Total Leadership is used by individuals and
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companies worldwide, including as a primary intervention in a multi-year study funded by the
National Institutes of Health on improving the careers and lives of women in medicine and by
57,000+ students in Stew’s highly-rated Coursera MOOC.
In 2001 Stew concluded a two-year assignment as a senior executive at Ford Motor Company,
where he was director of the Leadership Development Center (LDC), running a 50-person, $25
MM operation. In partnership with the CEO, he launched a corporate-wide portfolio of initiatives
designed to transform Ford's culture; 2500+ managers per year participated. Near the end of his
tenure at Ford, an independent research group (ICEDR) said the LDC was a "global benchmark"
for leadership development programs.
Stew worked for five years in the mental health field before earning his PhD in organizational
psychology from the University of Michigan. He has published on work/life, leadership, and the
dynamics of change, including the widely-cited Harvard Business Review articles, “Work and life:
the end of the zero-sum game” (1998); “Be a better leader, have a richer life” (2008); and
"Work+Home+Community+Self (2014); and “The Happy Workaholic: a role model for employees”
(in Academy of Management Executive, 2003). In 2013 Wharton Digital Press published his
landmark study of two generations of Wharton students, Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and
Women in Work and Family. Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (Oxford, 2000) was
recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field's best books. In Integrating Work and
Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (Jossey-Bass, 1998) Stew edited the first collection of
learning tools for building leadership skills for integrating work and life.
Stew serves on a number of boards and has advised a wide range of companies and public
sector organizations, including the U.S. Department of Labor, the United Nations, and two White
House administrations. He gives keynote addresses and conducts workshops globally on
leadership and the whole person, creating change, and strategic human resources issues. (Here
is the 2013 master class he gave for Wharton's Lifelong Learning Tour in San Francisco.) The
recipient of numerous teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media (The New York
Times cited the “rock star adoration” he inspires in his students), was chosen by Working Mother
as one of America’s 25 most influential men to have made things better for working parents, has
twice been selected byThinkers50 as one of the “world’s top 50 business thinkers,” and was
recently honored by the Families and Work Institute with the Work Life Legacy Award.
Follow him on Twitter @StewFriedman and tune in to Work and Life, his show on Sirius XM 111,
Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School, Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. (ET).
Head TA
Michelle Rajotte is the Director of Client Services for Total Leadership Inc., and an alum of the
Total Leadership Program. Michelle holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication and a Bachelor of
Science degree in Marketing. She has extensive experience in the marketing and insurance
industries and served in the United States Air Force as a program manager and financial analyst.
While in the military, Michelle launched multiple mentoring and coaching initiatives involving 300+
officers and cadets at military installations across the world, and was selected as the Air Force
Association's Los Angeles Chapter Company Grade Officer of the Year for her work. Michelle and
her husband, a retired Air Force pilot, live with their daughter near Dayton, OH.
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Community TAs
Our Community TAs have all volunteered to serve in this role and are graduates of one of our
previous sessions of Better Leader, Richer Life on Coursera.
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Community Track
This page provide an overview of and links to the weekly activities for the Community Track. If
you are planning to complete the Individual Track instead, please view the Individual Track
Assignments page for links to your assignments.
Community Track activities for each week include completing your assignment, providing peer
feedback to three of your classmates, and reviewing feedback given to you by your classmates.
Complete Assignments:
Open on Sundays at 12:00 PM EST (Noon) / 5:00 PM
GMT
Due no later than the following Sunday, 11:59 PM EST
/ Monday, 4:59 AM GMT
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Give Peer Feedback:
Open on Mondays at 1:00 AM EST / 6:00 AM GMT
Due no later than the following Sunday, 11:59 PM
EST / Monday, 4:59 AM GMT
You get the most benefit from our course if you do all the assignments as soon as possible after
they are open and available for you to complete. Because of how Coursera is set up, after the
deadline passes you will not be able to complete your assignment for the week. And if you do not
complete your assignment for the week then you will earn no credit for the week's assignment
and you will not be able to give feedback to your classmates on that week's assignment.
Please read our Course Policies and Grading for details on our grading system.
However, even if you are unable to complete an assignment, I hope you will stay with us and try
to get as much out of our course as possible. You can always do the next week’s assignment,
and those after that. As with all courses, the more you put in, the more you take away. Do your
best to make a real investment in your growth. Our course team is here to help you to do all
assignments on time so you get the most value from our course.
Please feel free to ask any questions you would like the course team to respond to in the Course
Materials and Technical Issues Discussion Forums. We do our best to answer quickly.
Week 1: Open Feb 8 -- Due Feb 15
1. Week 1 Assignment: Starting Total Leadership. (View
examples here.)
Week 2: Open Feb 15 -- Due Feb 22
1. Week 2 Assignment: Clarifying What's
Important. (View examples here.)
2. Give peer feedback to three classmates on their Week
1 assignment.
Please click here for general instructions on peer assessments.
Week 3: Open Feb 22 -- Due Mar 1
1. Week 3 Assignment: Seeing Your Life as a
System. (View examples here.)
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2. Give peer feedback to three classmates on their Week
2 assignment.
3. Review feedback given to you on your Week 1
assignment.
Please click here for general instructions on peer assessments.
Week 4: Open Mar 1 -- Due Mar 8
1. Week 4 Assignment: Talking to Your Stakeholders.
(View examples here.)
2. Give peer feedback to three classmates on their Week
3 assignment.
3. Review feedback given to you on your Week 2
assignment.
Please click here for general instructions on peer assessments.
Week 5: Open Mar 8 -- Due Mar 15
1. Week 5 Assignment: Thinking About Creating
Change. (View examples here.)
2. Give peer feedback to three classmates on their Week
4 assignment.
3. Review feedback given to you on your Week 3
assignment.
Week 6: Open Mar 15 -- Due Mar 22
1. Week 6 Assignment: Designing Experiments. (View examples here.)
2. Give peer feedback to three classmates on their Week
5 assignment.
3. Review feedback given to you on your Week 4
assignment.
Week 7: Open Mar 22 -- Due Mar 29
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1. Week 7 Assignment: Bringing Others Along With You.
(View examples here.)
2. Give peer feedback to three classmates on their Week
6 assignment.
3. Review feedback given to you on your Week 5
assignment.
Week 8: Open Mar 29 -- Due Apr 5 (no written assignment this week)
1. Give peer feedback to three classmates on their Week
7 assignment.
2. Review feedback given to you on your Week 6
assignment.
Week 9: Open Apr 5 -- Due Apr 12 (no peer feedback this week)
1. Week 9 Assignment: Looking Back, Looking
Forward. (View examples here.)
2. Review feedback given to you on your Week 7
assignment.
Week 10: Open Apr 12 -- Due Apr 19 (no written assignment this week)
1. Give peer feedback to three classmates on their Week
9 assignment.
2. Complete Final Exam
After Apr 19
1. Review feedback given to you on your Week 9
assignment.
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Individual Track
This page provide an overview of and links to the weekly activities for the Individual Track. If
you are planning to complete the Community Track instead, please go to the Community Track
Assignments page for links to your assignments.
Individual Track activities for each week include completing your assignments in a personal journal (not shared with others on Coursera or with the instructor) and a quiz.
Available on Sundays at 12:00 PM EST (Noon) / 5:00
PM GMT
Weekly Quizzes/Final Exam:
Open on Sundays at 12:00 PM EST (Noon) / 5:00 PM
GMT
Due no later than the following Sunday, 11:59 PM
EST / Monday, 4:59 AM GMT
You get the most benefit from our course if you do all the assignments as soon as possible after
they are open and available for you to complete. However, even if you are unable to complete an assignment, I hope you will stay with us and try to get as much out of our course as possible. You can always do the next week’s assignment, and those after that. As with all courses, the more you put in, the more you take away. Do your best to make a real investment in your growth. Our course team is here to help you to do all assignments on time so you get the most value from our course.
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Please read our Course Policies and Grading for details on our grading system. Please feel free
to ask any questions you would like the course team to respond to in the Course
Materials and Technical Issues Discussion Forums. We do our best to answer quickly.
Week 1: Open Feb 8 -- Quiz Due Feb 15
1. Week 1 Journal Assignment: Starting Total
Leadership.* (View examples here.)
2. Week 1 Quiz .**
* Your journal assignment is for your personal use only, and you will not submit it on Coursera.
** Please note that each weekly quiz is different than the "just for fun quiz" you saw in the video, and
must be accessed through the quiz link for each week. To review previous quiz attempts, click ont he
link for that week's quiz.
Week 2: Open Feb 15 -- Quiz Due Feb 22
1. Week 2 Journal Assignment: Clarifying What's
Important.* (View examples here.)
2. Week 2 Quiz .**
Week 3: Open Feb 22 -- Quiz Due Mar 1
1. Week 3 Journal Assignment: Seeing Your Life as a
System.* (View examples here.)
2. Week 3 Quiz .**
Week 4: Open Mar 1 -- Quiz Due Mar 8
1. Week 4 Journal Assignment: Talking to Your
Stakeholders.* (View examples here.)
2. Week 4 Quiz .**
Week 5: Open Mar 8 -- Quiz Due Mar 15
1. Week 5 Journal Assignment: Thinking About Creating
Change.* (View examples here.)
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2. Week 5 Quiz .**
Week 6: Open Mar 15 -- Quiz Due Mar 22
1. Week 6 Journal Assignment: Designing
Experiments.* (View examples here.)
2. Week 6 Quiz .**
Week 7: Open Mar 22 -- Quiz Due Mar 29
1. Week 7 Journal Assignment: Bringing Others Along
With You.* (View examples here.)
2. Week 7 Quiz .**
Week 8: Mar 29 -- Apr 5
No new journal assignment or quiz this week.
Week 9: Open Apr 5 -- Quiz Due Apr 12
1. Week 9 Journal Assignment: Looking Back, Looking
Forward. (View examples here.)
2. Week 9 Quiz .
Week 10: Open Apr 12 -- Final Exam Due Apr 19 (no journal assignment this week)
1. Final Exam
* Your journal assignment is for your personal use only, and you will not submit it on Coursera.
** Please note that each weekly quiz is different than the "just for fun quiz" you saw in the video, and
must be accessed through the quiz link for each week. To review previous quiz attempts, click on the
link for that week's quiz.
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Recommended Books
Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life
Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family
Web Sites
Total Leadership
This site has information about the Total Leadership program, its impact, media coverage, and
resources.
Wharton Work/Life Integration Project
This site has full information about all the activities of Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project,
starting from its founding in 1991. You can subscribe to the W/LIP Forum for original articles and
find information about Stew Friedman's weekly radio program, Work and Life, which airs on
Tuesdays at 7:00 PM EDT on SiriusXM 111. (Go here for information about free trial for online
SiriusXM subscription.)
My Four Circles
www.MyFourCircles.com is a tool for analyzing the alignment of your four domains of life -- work,
home, community, and self -- and generating ideas for creating greater harmony, which you can
then share with anyone to ask for their help.
Total Leadership Skills Assessment Survey - online version
Our online skills assessment.
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Examples of Excellent Assignments
It's a good idea to read these examples, written by former students, before you write your own
responses to each assignment.
Week 1: Starting Total Leadership
Week 2: Clarifying What's Important
Week 3: Seeing Your Life as a System
Week 4: Talking to Your Stakeholders
Week 5: Thinking About Creating Change
Week 6: Designing Experiments
Week 7: Bringing Others Along With You
Week 9: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Guidelines for Peer Feedback and Assessments
Read these important guidelines on peer feedback and assessment, including best practices for
your role as both a coach and a peer client.
Lecture Slides
As requested by students, Stew is providing his lecture slides, for student use only (please do not
copy or distribute).
Week 1: Starting Total Leadership
Week 2: Clarifying What's Important
Week 3: Seeing Your Life as a System
Week 4: Talking to Your Stakeholders
Week 5: Thinking About Creating Change
Week 6: Designing Experiments
Week 7: Bringing Others Along With You
Week 9: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Week 10: Continuing the Journey
Office Hours Archive
Videos of Stew's past Office Hours via Google Hangouts on Air
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Current Session
October 11, 2014
Previous Session
April 30, 2014
May 5, 2014
May 7, 2014
May 19, 2014
May 27, 2014
June 6, 2014
June 11, 2014
Extremely Useful Documents
Total Leadership Skills Assessment Survey - paper version
A quick link to a pdf version of our skills assessment.
General Notes on Exercises
Stew's notes on all the exercises in this course.
Stakeholder Dialogues Guide
All kinds of great ideas from former students about how to make the most of your stakeholder
dialogues.
Measuring the Economic Impact of TL Experiments
A guide for how to assess the impact of an experiment in terms of money.
Stew's Blog on HBR.org
Check out these recent articles. You might want to start a discussion thread in our Discussion
Forum about them:
Get More Done By Focusing Less On Work
Work+Home+Community+Self
Reduce Stress by Pursuing Four-Way Wins
7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work and Have Kids
Successfully Integrate Your Work, Home, Community, and Self
Men: Win at Work by Leaning In at Home
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