Creative Media Leadership Award

The Creative Media Leadership Award is designed to develop the leaders of tomorrow.

It's a postgraduate qualification that has been developed in response to industry demands for more contextualised, quality management and leadership training.
With the Creative Media Leadership Award, you can enhance your management and leadership skills with a tailored selection of short courses designed specifically for rising stars in creative media.
“The Creative Leadership programme has really broadened my horizons and awareness within my workplace and will with no doubt help me in my career for years to come.” Matthew Smith - IMG
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Social Media and Leadership Development

While many baby-boom leaders are frustrated with the disconnect between generations, organizations across the spectrum also deny access to social networking sites. In fact, according to a recent study conducted by Robert Half Technology that surveyed 1,400 CIOs in U.S. businesses, 54% reported that their organizations block the use of social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter within the workplace.
Yet our success as leaders depends on our ability to have profound conversations with constituents. And in today's web-connected world, that means taking advantage of the technological and social media tools available — to meet and connect, in particular, with members of the younger generation who prefer to communicate and learn in open environments.
So the important questions to leaders: Are you using online social media in your role as a leader to create an environment of openness and transparency? Have you practiced your leadership skills through a range of different media?
An essential starting place for social media novices or anyone wanting to build relationships with constituents in our new open environment is to profile your constituents' social computing behaviors using The Social Technology Profile Tool. This tool automatically creates a profile of your selected demographic group. It tests both your organization's voice and your constituent's receptivity to your voice (i.e., their willingness to listen to you and respond to you as credible).*
An additional approach is to follow the advice of Charlene Li, author of Open Leadership, who suggests that our focus as leaders must shift from trying to retain what little control we actually have to choosing where and when we will be open to embrace our newly- empowered employees. The Openness Audit asks you to rate how open your organization is in each of six different information- sharing elements. This diagnostic tool will help you understand where your organization is open and where it is not. In particular, the results assess the level of openness that exists in structure, encouragement, and exhibited behavior that can help define a plan to open your organization to becoming more flexible and responsive utilizing the technology and social media tools available.

Leadership Journalists Charged With Forgery

Leadership Newspapers journalists, Tony Amokoedo and Chibuizor Ukaibe, were Tuesday slammed with a ten-count charge of forgery before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

They were re-arrested Monday and detained at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, detention centre in Abuja.

Leadership Newspapers journalists, Tony Amokoedo and Chibuizor Ukaibe, docked on a ten-count charge of forgery before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court in Abuja, Tuesday.

The had earlier been detained last week for publishing a report on a ‘presidential directive’ to attack key party leaders of the opposition parties.

The Presidency, smarting from the embarrassing report, had disowned the document, claiming it was forged and this prompted the police to compel the journalists to disclose the source of their information.

After they were detained for more than 24 hours last week released on bail, they were asked to report to the police every working day.

It was in the course of honouring that invitation that they were re-arrested yesterday and charged to court today.

The journalists had sued the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, claiming the sum of N10 million each for breach of their fundamental human right.