Leadership Resources
Innovative tools for leadership learning in academic and organizational settings.
While educating students at Stanford will always remain central to our mission, the Center aims to push the thinking about how leaders learn (and teach) about leadership. We are developing and connecting numerous resources to support the pursuit of leadership development in other institutions and organizations, as well.
Within the Graduate School of Business, we support leadership-focused courses for students and Executive Education participants. Additionally, the CLDR works with Stanford's Center on Ethics and other Stanford departments to create interdisciplinary progrmaming and research.
Following are a few resources at the CLDR and Stanford:
- Leadership in Focus: Leadership Education Video Cases
- Leadership Initiatives at Stanford University
- For GSB Students
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The Center has developed a series of leadership case videos around key leadership topics. In each video, leaders present a real leadership challenge, the issues they grappled with and how they ultimately handled each situation.
The Leadership in Focus series is fully supported with discussion guides and role-plays and provide the instructor with teaching flexibility. Several cases can be strung together to create a class, or an individual short case can be used at the end of an already prepared class to bring to life a particular leadership concept.
The videos provide several advantages over a written case:
- The videos convey emotion. Complex interpersonal leadership issues, which can be difficult to articulate in written case form, are highlighted well in the videos.
- The videos enable students to better interpret non-verbal cues about the leader and the situation.
- Students are challenged to react quickly to the situation as it unfolds and encouraged to put themselves 'in the leader's shoes' (this is often accomplished through role-playing).