LEADERSHIP: Reg Revans is one of the early founders of action learning and his videos tend to be extremely serious in tone. Several of his classic videos are available on YouTube.

LEADERSHIP:

Reg Revans is one of the early founders of action learning and his videos tend to be extremely serious in tone. Several of his classic videos are available on YouTube. More recent videos are also available by Michael Marquardt, another leading authority on action learning and author of one of the required background readings. Take a look at some videos from both of these action learning experts and share the links to couple videos that you found the most interesting or at least kept you awake.

What are your overall impressions of Drs. Marquardt and Revans? Which one seemed to be more authoritative or better at explaining the concepts? Anything useful in the presentations that helped you learn or absorb the concepts covered in the required background materials? Or did you just have trouble staying awake? Let your classmates know what your recommendations are regarding these videos. This post should be in the first week of the module.

For the second week of the module, compare and contrast the reading from Dr. Marquardt listed in the background readings to one of his videos. Is his written style similar to his speaking style? Was the material in the video and book chapter consistent with each other?

POWER AND INFLUENCE:

Find at least one online video by Cialdini that discusses persuasion. Post the link to the video and share your thoughts.

After viewing at least one of Cialdini’s videos on persuasion, discuss the following in your first post during the first week of the class:

1. Who do you think is more persuasive given what you’ve read about persuasion for this module—Pfeffer or Cialdini?
2. In what ways do you think these gurus are similar or different?

Your second task for the discussion is to actually go out and try to use some of Cialdini’s techniques from his videos or the background readings. You can try them on a coworker, a family member, or even a salesperson that you are trying to coax into giving you a better deal. Did it work? How did these tactics work compared to what you tried for the Module 3 disussion? Would you try this technique again? Share your story with your classmates sometime during the second week of the module.