Sunday, October 24, 2010

Leadership in Thailand (1)

Sawasdee Krub,

We are now planing more activities for the leadership workshop which will be held ion Thailand at the Graduate School of Commerce, Burapha University. This workshop will involve a number of key stakeholders from RMIT University, the Australian Embassy and Burapha University.

The date for this workshop is scheduled on 4-5 November 2010. We will update you with some new activities and academic readings for this project.

Cheers,
Natt and Tim

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Leadership in Thailand and Australia Project

Hi Everyone,

Leadership is a complex phenomenon that has been widely researched and has been defined in a variety of ways. Yukl (2002) identifies leadership as "the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how it can be done effectively."

Personally, I see leadership as the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish the shared objectives. Having established this concept, the project will focus on how to create shared value through means of leadership. I am interested in leadership styles in comparing Australian and Thai leadership styles and will design the project that support this concept among the participants.

If you are interested in leadership, please feel free to discuss your idea with me and I think we can develop some interesting points of discussion.