What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

There are 7 modules in this course

This is a beginner course designed for professionals from diverse work backgrounds. The course helps you lean on your experiences and strengthen your capacity to lead across boundaries, from any political or organizational position, with or without authority. The course will also enable you to learn important leadership skills, clarifying the relationships among key concepts such as definitions of leadership, self-management, authority, power, influence, politics, negotiations, change management, decision-making, and various leadership styles. This knowledge will provide you with a practical and coherent theoretical framework for applying and exercising leadership. Lastly, the course explores the challenge of managing the inevitable personal stresses and dangers of leading a team. The course draws from business management, philosophy, spirituality, history, literature, sports, communications, and psychology. To succeed in this course, you should have experience or a basic understanding of working in organizations.

Leading Downward: Leader Behaviors and Leadership Styles

Building Sustainable Relationships: Supportive Communication and Decision-making Biases

Power, Politics, and Leading Upwards

Ethics, Culture, and Change Management

Leadership and Ancient Indian Wisdom: Lessons from the Mahabharata

Peer Review Assignment

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