Conversation

The conversation courses aim at increasing the students' fluency and improving their speaking skills.

The topics dealt with are proposed by the teacher as well as by the students and they refer to any areas such as the following ones:

  • Politics
  • Societal problems
  • Travel and holidays
  • Work and employment
  • Sport and leisure
  • Feelings and emotions
  • Education and learning experiences
  • The natural world
  • IT developments and the social networks
  • People and behaviour
  • Entertainment and the Arts
  • Food, restaurants and cooking
  • Shops and shopping

Rethinking the Adaptive Leadership model through the Italian Adaptive Leadership Behavior Questionnaire

Since Heifetz designed the adaptive leadership framework in 1994, the academic literature has benefitted from many qualitative research studies focusing on specific adaptive challenges and how the adaptive leadership framework can be practically used to face these. It seems very few have dealt with adaptive leadership through the quantitative lens and have attempted to measure adaptive leadership behaviors or tested Heifetz’s adaptive leadership six-dimensional model. In response, my PhD research aimed to measure the perception of adaptive leadership behaviors across the Italian corporate context and to investigate whether Heifetz’s adaptive leadership model can apply to the Italian culture. Findings and contribution to knowledge can be read in the thesis: Novellini, P. (2023) Rethinking the Adaptive Leadership model through the Italian Adaptive Leadership Behavior Questionnaire, PhD thesis, University of Sunderland.

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