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Preparing for Senior Strategic Leadership: moral dilemmas

The corporate leadership planning and change agenda within higher education presents many complex challenges for senior managers.  The PSSL programme run by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education supports them to meet these challenges through a range of experiential and knowledge based interventions. Our contribution to this programme presents participants with a moral dilemma that highlights the… Read more »

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Managing Diversity: navigating conflicting legislation

There is potential conflict in two pieces of legislation which are designed to support an individual’s right to free expression.  The first relates to a person’s religious and spiritual belief and the second relates to a person’s sexual orientation.  We’ve developed a story which explores this conflict.  It presents managers with a complex brain teaser.  The situation is described… Read more »

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Vegetarian breakfast

This is a useful ice breaker to get people mixing together and having fun. All the chairs are in a circle. The leader/facilitator removes their chair from the circle so that there is one person more than the number of chairs. S/he stands in the middle and asks for three suggestions of things that would… Read more »

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People to people

This exercise encourages the group to move around, make contact with one another and problem solve. Ask the group to put their chairs to the side and find a partner to work with. Ask the pairs to go to a space in the working area avoiding the walls, furniture and other pairs. Tell the group… Read more »

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