Successful leadership in our popular imagination is most often associated with particular kinds of individuals, the ones who adopt the top-down, take-charge, transformational approach to running things. In this talk, writer and educator Alex Budak challenges this convention with the concept of micro-leadership, proposing that leadership doesn't mean constant exertion of control--it means performing small acts that serve others and catalyze big impact.
Type of Material:
Presentation
Recommended Uses:
Lectures with a follow-up classroom or workshop discussion.
Homework
Play in class and discuss in groups
Technical Requirements:
Mozilla Firefox 121.0, Chrome
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Understand micro leadership
Understand that everybody, regardless of their position in the organization, can perform small acts to serve others and have a big impact.
Even though an individual is not a CEO, he/she can still be a leader
Target Student Population:
Upper-level business students
Graduate students in business
Management students
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
No prerequisite material is noted, but it would be helpful if users understood basic leadership principles, so they have a basis for comparison with his proposal of micro leadership. Users must also know how to access videos on YouTube, scroll, and possess basic computer skills.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The format used by TEDx Talks makes the delivery of the subject matter more interesting
A limited timeframe that is long enough to understand the major points
This is an effective presentation that offers leadership possibilities for people at any level in the organization.
The speaker provides real-life examples and provides complete explanations.
Concerns:
There is no evidence that research supports this presentation.
This presenter is a practitioner teaching leadership, which means that no framework or theory supports the information provided.
The points are well made, this would be stronger with appropriate academic research support.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The speaker promotes leadership as an activity, where the leadership is engaged and leading through hands-on efforts. Leadership is not intended to be viewed as someone who observes.
The speaker encourages people to lead and not wait, it’s not about single decisions but about many small actions over time.
The speaker encourages viewers to try their ideas and make their ideas a reality. We do not need to be CEOs to be the only leaders.
Concerns:
There are no fundamental concepts provided other than what the speaker is presenting.
As such, this is not grounded in theory but is explained as practice.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
Clear speaker
Good tone and punctuation of words
The YouTube could be stopped or repeated, as needed.
The information was relevant.
This is easy to use because it is readily available, and the speaker explains things simply and points to simple activities necessary to begin.
Step up, serve others, and then do it again.
Concerns:
None.
Other Issues and Comments:
More text on the background screen to emphasize points that Alex Budak makes during his TEDx Talk.
Creative Commons:
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