Welcome to the course! We're honored and excited to have you join us!   Whether you're here to gain insights into your leadership capability, identify skills to help you become a successful leader at home or at work, connect with a global community of students by learning English, or simply learn about cutting-edge research on inclusive leadership, we hope you'll find what you're looking for in this course. To kick things off, watch the video below for a course overview and section topics. Remember to take some notes!  

Now: Press the PLAY BUTTON and listen to the audio while looking at the transcription. [MUSIC PLAYING]  Welcome to Inclusive Leadership Training: Becoming a Successful Leader.  I'm Deepali Bagati, one of your course instructors. Krista Brookman and Emily Troiano are the other instructors that you will be hearing from in weeks two, three, and four.  This first video sets the foundation for the course,  and it will also tell you what is it that's in store for you each week.  This introductory course is designed to get you started on your quest of becoming an inclusive leader, a successful leader.  You will be learning through videos, discussion forums, activities, quizzes, and real world exercises  about inclusive leadership.  Inclusive leadership benefits everyone.  It positively impacts everyone.  Doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman,  young or old, of any skin color, race, ethnicity, or nationality. Anyone can be an inclusive leader. You can be an inclusive leader, and inclusion benefits everyone.  So you're probably wondering what exactly is inclusion.  The dictionary says, inclusion is the action or state  of being included, or including others  in groups and structures.  Catalyst research says that inclusion happens when you value both the differences and the commonalities of others.  Catalyst research also says that when women and men feel included in their work groups or their workplaces,  they are more likely to do two things: innovate and be a team player.  Now taking a few steps back and talking about the being distinct part, that's the uniqueness part. Standing out from a crowd and being recognized  for what you bring to the table, what's unique about you.  The being similar part is the belongingness part.  That's about not standing out too far out from the crowd  that you're on the side alone by yourself.  It really is about fitting into that group.  And to be a successful inclusive leader,  you have to make others feel included.  Catalyst research also talks about EACH, the EACH method.  As a leader, what can you do to make others feel included.  Empowerment, accountability, courage, and humility.  Now you're probably wondering, "And how do I do that?"  Now that is exactly what you'll walk away with at the end of this course, a personal leadership plan. Your how-to guide on being an inclusive leader, whether in your workplaces or in your personal life.  So let's get started.  In week one, this week, you will learn about 21st-century leaders.  What exactly does a 21st-century leader look like?  And more important, why should you care?  Why should you want to be like that?  In week two, we'll get into the blind spots,  the unconscious challenges, the biases, the stereotypes, and otherness.  In week three, we'll get into the inclusive leadership behaviors that I mentioned earlier,  the EACH method: empowerment, accountability, courage, and humility.  And you will see inclusive leadership in action.  And in week four, our final week,  we will pull the various parts of our personal leadership plan together and finalize the personal leadership plan.  So let's get started and kick off week one with two questions.  Who is a leader?  And who is a follower?

Discussion: Share Leaders You Admire Question: Which leaders do you look up to? Which leaders do you admire? Which leaders inspire you? And why? Choose a leader or leaders you admire. These leaders could be anyone—a parent, a teacher, someone in your family, someone you work for, a famous leader (living or dead). What makes their leadership special to you? What leadership attributes do you admire in these leaders? Write all this information in a piece of paper or clicking here and try to emphazise your answer to inclusive leaders you know. If you don't know how to start, just click here and look a simple example of an answer from another participant.

The Many Forms of Leadership! A Lone Nut Leadership can take many forms—and it's not always what you think it is. A video that appeared on the internet a few years ago was used in a TED talk given by Derek Sivers. Watch the video and ask youself: Would you dance?

Now: Press the PLAY BUTTON and listen to the audio while looking at the transcription.   Ladies and gentlemen, at TED we talk a lot about leadership and how to make a movement. So let's watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under three minutes and dissect some lessons from it. First, of course you know, a leader needs the guts to stand out and be ridiculed. What he's doing is so easy to follow. Here's his first follower with a crucial role; he's going to show everyone else how to follow. Now, notice that the leader embraces him as an equal. Now it's not about the leader anymore; it's about them, plural. Now, there he is calling to his friends. Now, if you notice that the first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. It takes guts to stand out like that. The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader. And here comes a second follower. Now it's not a lone nut, it's not two nuts -- three is a crowd, and a crowd is news. So a movement must be public. It's important to show not just the leader, but the followers, because you find that new followers emulate the followers, not the leader. Now, here come two more people, and immediately after, three more people. Now we've got momentum. This is the tipping point. Now we've got a movement. So, notice that, as more people join in, it's less risky. So those that were sitting on the fence before now have no reason not to. They won't stand out, they won't be ridiculed, but they will be part of the in-crowd if they hurry. So, over the next minute, you'll see all of those that prefer to stick with the crowd because eventually they would be ridiculed for not joining in. And that's how you make a movement. But let's recap some lessons from this. So first, if you are the type, like the shirtless dancing guy that is standing alone, remember the importance of nurturing your first few followers as equals so it's clearly about the movement, not you. Okay, but we might have missed the real lesson here. The biggest lesson, if you noticed -- did you catch it? -- is that leadership is over-glorified. Yes, it was the shirtless guy who was first, and he'll get all the credit, but it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. So, as we're told that we should all be leaders, that would be really ineffective. If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in. And what a perfect place to do that, at TED. Thanks.

What's Going On? You just saw a shirtless man dancing by himself on a grassy hill surrounded by other people, possibly at a music festival. Suddenly a second person joins him and starts dancing. And then another person and another joins in, until nearly everyone is dancing. What's going on? Derek Sivers, the TED speaker, says: "The biggest lesson...is that leadership is over-glorified. That, yes, it was the shirtless guy who was first, and he'll get all the credit, but it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader....If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow, and show others how to follow." Now, let's turn to a completely different situation. Take a look at Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, as she talks about leadership at the 2013 Catalyst Awards Conference. Listen to what she says about being a leader—and being a follower.

What have we learned so far? Anyone can be a leader. Anyone. From a "lone nut" in a field with the courage to dance alone, to the CEO of a giant corporation who understands that every single person at her company can sometimes be a leader, and that sometimes the most important thing she can do is simply be a follower. Let's look a little closer at leadership. Get your "free review sheet" here. __________   Looking Forward - Why This Matters Why You Care Now that you know anyone can lead, let's get into what a 21st-century leader looks like and why should you care. Watch the following video of Jim Turley, retired Chairman and CEO of EY, speaking about leadership in 2012.

Now: Press the PLAY BUTTON and listen to the audio while looking at the transcription.   [MUSIC PLAYING]  You know, I am an optimist, and I'm always  looking at the glass half full.  I think more, and more, and more people  are realizing that the teams that they're  going to be part of will be more diverse.  Full stop, they will be more diverse,  across gender, but also across ethnicity, and nationality,  and religion, and sexual orientation.  You name it, they will be more diverse.  And more people are understanding  that really diverse teams generally  don't perform middle of the road.  They're either off the charts great,  or they're absolutely awful.  And it comes down to the culture you build within the team,  bringing ideas from all sources, as to  whether or not that team comes together.  And whether the magic happens, and you get better solutions  than any individual can get.  So I think more people recognize that.