Through this 6-course Specialization in Strategic Leadership and Management, you will learn the fundamentals of effectively leading people, teams, and organizations and develop tools to analyze business situations. In addition to building a conceptual framework for leadership, learners will develop and practice strategies for immediate impact. The Specialization covers the strategic, human resource, and organizational foundations for creating and capturing value for sustainable competitive advantage both within a single business and across a portfolio of businesses.
Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization
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Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization
Leadership and Business Skill for Immediate Impact. Apply practical strategies to becoming an effective organizational leader.
Instructors: Jeff Flesher
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(6,999 reviews)
Beginner level
No prior experience required
2 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
- Team Motivation
- Team Building
- Trustworthiness
- Business Management
- Governance
- Negotiation
- Organizational Change
- Organizational Strategy
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Leadership Development
- Team Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Business Strategy
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Ethics
- Leadership
- Corporate Strategy
- Conflict Management
- Organizational Structure
- Strategic Leadership
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Specialization - 7 course series
What you'll learn
Define leadership in a way that facilitates personal leadership growth,.
Discover the role of understanding yourself to grow as a leader,.
Explore interpersonal interactions that are core to effective leadership.
Utilize a framework to further your own leadership development.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Decision Making
Category: Curiosity
Category: Trustworthiness
Category: Relationship Building
Category: Courage
Category: Self-Awareness
Category: Conflict Management
Category: Leadership
Category: Emotional Intelligence
Category: Negotiation
Category: People Development
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Growth Mindedness
What you'll learn
Articulate a conceptual understanding of team culture and why it matters for team success.
Identify and evaluate elements of psychological safety and the correlation to team performance.
Identify and evaluate ways to engage team members to work collaboratively to solve problems.
Create a practice for crafting cultures of problem solving to encourage teams to learn and grow with the changing dynamics of business needs.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Leadership
Category: Creativity
Category: Employee Engagement
Category: Teamwork
Category: Adaptability
Category: Team Motivation
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Culture Transformation
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Team Building
Category: Innovation
Category: Team Management
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Willingness To Learn
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Safety Culture
Category: Growth Mindedness
Category: Cognitive flexibility
What you'll learn
Identify and explain many of the common organizational design challenges faced by organizations
Apply theory and principles to more effectively deal with these organizational design challenges in your own professional life
Analyze the effectiveness of organizational design choices in various organizations
Make organizational design recommendations to increase organizational effectiveness
Skills you'll gain
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Growth Strategies
Category: Governance
Category: Innovation
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Decision Making
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Business Management
What you'll learn
Identify and explain common challenges faced by managers in organizations.
Apply theory and principles to become a more effective manager in your own professional life.
Analyze the effectiveness of managerial decisions in various organizations.
Make managerial recommendations to increase organizational effectiveness.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Leadership
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Culture
Category: Change Management
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Decision Making
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: People Analytics
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Category: Business Management
What you'll learn
Explain how different functions and activities fit together in a firm and how they align with the environment to create overall business performance.
Describe and employ important strategic management tools and frameworks for business models.
Apply strategic management tools and frameworks to business contexts in an appropriate manner to arrive at insights for strategic decision making.
Develop a coherent and actionable strategic plan by critically analyzing and processing abundant and diverse business and industry information.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Business Strategy
Category: Competitive Analysis
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Business Modeling
Category: Analysis
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Market Analysis
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Innovation
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Strategic Leadership
What you'll learn
Explain how corporations create and capture value as multi-business enterprises.
Analyze complex strategic business situations and formulate coherent corporate strategies.
Use tools and frameworks to make choices regarding corporate scope, corporate transactions and global strategy.
Apply strategic analysis to corporate governance and stakeholder management for long run strategic success.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Corporate Strategy
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Business Strategy
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
Category: Governance
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Strategic Partnership
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: New Business Development
Category: Strategic Planning
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Corporate Sustainability
Category: Global Marketing
Category: Business Ethics
Category: International Finance
What you'll learn
Demonstrate knowledge of concepts, theories, and approaches learned in Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization courses.
Apply Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization course related tools, techniques, and approaches to realistic business situations.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Growth Strategies
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Team Building
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Business Planning
Category: Business Priorities
Category: Leadership
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Business Leadership
Category: Business Strategy
Category: Process Improvement and Optimization
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹
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Frequently asked questions
Time to completion can vary widely based on your schedule, most learners are able to complete the Specialization in 3-6 months.
Each course in the Specialization offers regular and open enrollment. You can begin and complete the course on your own schedule.
No background knowledge is necessary for this Specialization.
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