QMUL - Getting Started with Leadership
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Getting Started with Leadership at Coursera Overview
Duration | 25 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Advanced |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Getting Started with Leadership at Coursera Highlights
- Flexible deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Earn a Certificate upon completion
Getting Started with Leadership at Coursera Course details
- In this course, you will discover the importance of understanding context and its impact on the individual as a leader. You'll consider how you define leadership and explore how organisations work through an exploration of the what and why of your own working environment. You will also look at who stakeholders are and their important role in today's business, before discussing the differences between leadership and management, and the importance of credibility.
- This course is aimed at leaders and managers who have five to six years experience and who are beginning to manage teams, customers and clients more regularly or more directly. A majority of those taking this course will have a technical or professional early career, but are progressing professionally so are starting to grapple with the issues of team and organisational leadership.
- By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the context in which your organisation operates.
- Identify common challenges related to leadership.
- Explain how leadership is impacted by the nature of how organisations are structured in order to deliver their goods or services.
- Identify the key stakeholders in your leadership constellation.
- Work effectively with your key stakeholders.
- Explain the difference between leadership and management.
Getting Started with Leadership at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to Leadership
Welcome to Leadership Out of the Box
The Learning Journey
Myth-Busters
Responding to Misconception
Stop Being a Follower
Leadership in Different Organisational Contexts
Time Bandits
Your Leadership Journey
When Do We Learn the Most?
Exploring Organisational Context
Welcome to Coursera
Welcome to Queen Mary University of London
Overview
Discussion Forums
Weekly Content
Grades
Notes
Top Tips
Workload
Mastery Learning
Unfacilitated
Academic Integrity
Assessment
Peer Review
Quizzes
Course Projects
Labs and Programming Assignments
Getting Started
Establishing a Reflective Practice
Learning to Lead
An Introduction to Leadership and Management
Urgency and Importance
Recurring Patterns
External Influences on Organisations
Analysing External Competitive Dynamics
Week 1 References
Setting Your Goals
Capturing your Personal Objectives
Reviewing Leadership Basics
Graded Knowledge Check 2
Making Sense of Organisations
Why is Context Important For You as a Leader?
Your Constraints
Types of Power
Moving Forward
Elements of Organisational Culture
Sources of Power
Roles in the Power Structure
The Changing Organisation
Exploring Alternative Perspectives
Week 2 References
Graded: Political Nature of Organisations
Making Sense of Stakeholders
Defining Stakeholders
Managing Stakeholder Engagement
Layers of Influence
Looking Ahead
New Perspectives on Stakeholder Relationships
External Stakeholder Mapping
Understanding and Managing your Stakeholders
Understanding a Key External Stakeholder
Contact Plans
Stakeholder Targeting
Aligning Agendas
Week 3 References
Managing Your External Stakeholders
Manage Your Stakeholders
Making Sense of Leadership and Management
Defining Leadership and Management
How One Spends Time
Defining Tasks and Relationship
Stories from the Real World
Managing Task and Process
Key Takeaways
The History of Managing and Leading
Defining Your Agenda
Leadership Mind-Set and Identity
The 'Big Question'
Making Time for Leadership
Task versus Relationships
Congratulations
Week 4 References
Knowledge Check: Leadership, Management and Production
You and Your World of Work
Identifying Actions
Getting Started with Leadership at Coursera Admission Process
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