Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision-Making Specialization
Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision-Making Specialization
Become a Better Business Leader Today.
Using Professor Sydney Finkelstein's renowned research into the art and science of leadership and years of experience working with managers and executives around the world, this specialization will help you build the wisdom and skills you need to grow and change as a leader—and as a person.
Instructor: Sydney Finkelstein
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What you'll learn
How to understand common leadership mistakes and keep them from happening to you
How to balance the rational and the emotional to make the best possible decisions
How to crack the code on talent to accelerate your career and help other people get better
How to become a wise leader at work, at home, and in life
Skills you'll gain
- Interpersonal Communications
- Professional Networking
- People Development
- Curiosity
- Collaboration
- Innovation
- Critical Thinking
- Leadership Development
- Creativity
- Emotional Intelligence
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Business Leadership
- Self-Awareness
- Personal Development
- Leadership Studies
- Creative Thinking
- Talent Management
- Leadership and Management
- Strategic Leadership
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Specialization - 4 course series
If you're ready to hone your leadership skills and grow as a person, Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision-Making for Work and Life is designed for you, whether you're a manager or an individual contributor.
Through four courses with Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, you will learn the common mistakes that even smart executives make, the neuroscience behind effective decision making, methods of managing and supporting the people around you, and how to bring together all these lessons to be the best possible leader, and person, at work and at home.
Applied Learning Project
There's no one applied learning project in Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision-Making, because the specialization is the applied learning project. Throughout each of the courses, frequent integrated application exercises offer the opportunity to immediately use Professor Finkelstein's teachings to solve your own real-world challenges in real time. These unique exercises are personalized, practical, and—if done with serious intent—will pay off in more ways than you can imagine.
Why Smart Executives Fail: Common Mistakes & Warning Signs
What you'll learn
Which mistakes leaders make most often
How to spot the early warning signs of key mistakes
How to avoid making these same mistakes in your own life
Skills you'll gain
Decision-Making: Blending Art & Science
What you'll learn
How our brains work and how we make decisions
What experience means for decision-making
How to identify our emotional biases and overcome them
How to put it all together to make better decisions
Skills you'll gain
Superbosses: Managing Talent & Leadership
What you'll learn
How to become a leader that creates other leaders
How to see the potential in others
How to generate and regenerate talent
How to produce tangible results for your organization
Skills you'll gain
Lessons on Wisdom: Personal Leadership for Your Life
What you'll learn
How to fulfill your leadership potential by changing how you think
How to make creativity and observation a meaningful part of your life
Practical hacks for overcoming the challenges of daily life
How to be great in everything you choose to do
Skills you'll gain
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Frequently asked questions
The Specialization is self-paced and consists of four courses. Each course contains four modules, for a total of about 75 hours of learning time, plus additional time for application exercises. We recommend completing one module per week. At this rate, you will complete the entire Specialization in approximately four months.
Strategic Leadership: Impact, Change, and Decision Making for Work and Life is designed for anyone who is ready to drive change in their organization and in their life. It is ideal for executives with management responsibilities and for those who are hoping to move into management soon, but will benefit anyone looking to improve themselves, their work, and their life.
The courses can stand alone, however they do build upon each other, so we recommend taking them all in the following order:
Why Smart Executives Fail: Common Mistakes & Warning Signs
Decision Making: Blending Art and Science
Superbosses: Managing Talent and Leadership
Reflections on Wisdom: Personal Leadership for Your Life
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