IIM Ahmedabad - Leadership Skills
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Leadership Skills at Coursera Overview
Duration | 46 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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Credential | Certificate |
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Leadership Skills at Coursera Course details
- This course provides a foundation for leadership practice and aims to take learner on a journey of self-discovery
- Learner will also gain insight into building inner stability and developing their leadership skills
- This is a beginner course designed for professionals from diverse work backgrounds
- The course helps learner lean on their experiences and strengthen their capacity to lead across boundaries, from any political or organizational position, with or without authority
- The course will also enable learners 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 learner 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, learner should have experience or a basic understanding of working in organizations
Leadership Skills at Coursera Curriculum
Leading the Self: Mindfulness, Inner Stability, and Positive Strengths
Course Introduction
Meet Your Instructor
Automatic Cycle of Behavior
Multitasking
Mindfulness
Our Two Selves
Understanding Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence: Managing Anger
Emotional Intelligence: Managing Fear
Emotional Intelligence: Managing Shame and Guilt
Emotional Intelligence: Managing Envy
Emotional Intelligence and Our Inner Talk
Understanding the Learning Mindset
Building a Learning Mindset
Positive Strengths: Hope
Positive Strengths: Optimism
Positive Strengths: Resilience
Positive Strengths: Self-efficacy
Course Overview
Essential Reading: Mindfulness, the Myth of Multitasking, and Winning Our Inner Game
Essential Reading: Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Management in Virtual Workplaces
Recommended Reading: Case Study: Mohan Dixit
Recommended Readings: Leading the Self: Mindfulness, Inner Stability, and Positive Strengths
Mindfulness and Inner Stability
Emotional Intelligence
Understanding and Developing Positive Strengths
Graded Quiz: Leading the Self: Mindfulness, Inner Stability, and Positive Strengths
Leading Downward: Leader Behaviors and Leadership Styles
Leadership Challenges for the New-age Organizations
TREAT Leadership: Task-orientation
TREAT Leadership: Relation-orientation
TREAT Leadership: Empowerment
TREAT Leadership: Authenticity
TREAT Leadership: Team-building
TREATment styles
Educate TREATment Style
Engage and Execute TREATment Style
Energize TREATment Style
Empower TREATment Style
Scoring Leadership Style Inventory
Leadership Effectiveness: Situational Leadership
Leadership Effectiveness: Managing High Performance
Leadership Effectiveness: Managing Demotivated Individuals
Essential Reading: Leadership Style Inventory
Essential Reading: Scoring Key: Leadership Style Inventory
Essential Reading: Leading Knowledge Organizations in the Post-Covid World
Essential Reading: T-R-E-A-T Leadership for New-Age Organizations
Recommended Reading: Case Study: Meera Nair at PhoenixWay: Which Way to Go?
Recommended Reading: ‘T-R-E-A-T’ Leadership for ‘L-E-A-P’ in a Knowledge-Based World
TREAT Leadership
Leadership Styles
Understanding Your Leadership Style
Graded Quiz: Leading Downward: Leader Behaviors and Leadership Styles
Building Sustainable Relationships: Supportive Communication and Decision-making Biases
Associative Coherence and Decision-Making Bias
The Anchoring Bias
The Availability Bias
Overconfidence and Confirmation Bias
Framing Bias
Attribute Substitution and Representative Bias
Sunk-cost Bias
Understanding System 1 and System 2 of Decision-Making
Developing Skilled Intuitions
Supportive Communication
Principles of Supportive Communication: Listening
Principles of Supportive Communication: Non-judgmental
Principles of Supportive Communication: Validating
Principles of Supportive Communication: Authentic
Fundamental Techniques of Handling People
Essential Reading: Caselet: Prakash Mehta and Chandresh Desai
Essential Readings: Types of Decision-Making Biases (And How To Recognize Bias)
Essential Readings: Common biases and Errors in Decision-Making
Essential Readings: A Complete Guide on Decision-Making Biases
Recommended Readings: Building Sustainable Relationships: Supportive Communication and Decision-Making Biases
Associative Coherence and Decision-making Biases
Attribute Substitution and Decision-making Biases
Supportive Communication
Graded Quiz: Building Sustainable Relationships: Supportive Communication and Decision-making Biases
Power, Politics, and Leading Upwards
Understanding Power in Organizations
Sources of Power: Personal
Sources of Power: Positional
Sources of Power: Relational
Sources of Power: Conflicts and Dominance
Understanding Networks and Their Characteristics
Understanding Network Characteristics: Breadth
Understanding Network Characteristics: Strength
Understanding Network Characteristics: Density
Understanding Network Characteristics: Centrality and Structural Holes
Principles of Developing Networks
Politics: Using Power to Influence Others
Politics: Negative or Positive
Leading Upwards and Paradigms of Human Interactions
Leading Upwards: Art of Working with Bosses
Essential Reading: Case Study: Aditya Kumar
Essential Reading: Pre-work: Network Assessment Exercise
Essential Readings: Relational Power: The Importance of Networking in Organizations
Essential Readings: Leading Upwards: Art of Working Effectively with Bosses
Recommended Books: Power, Politics, and Leading Upward
Reference Watch: The Pursuit of Happiness
Understanding Power
Developing and Leveraging Networks
Politics and Leading Upwards
Graded Quiz: Power, Politics, and Leading Upwards
Ethics, Culture, and Change Management
Ethical Dilemmas: What are they?
Ethics and Morals: Understanding the Difference
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Ethical Purpose
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Ethical Principles
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Pragmatism
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Principled Pragmatism
Understanding Organizational Culture
Leadership and Organizational Culture
LEAP Organizational Culture: Learning Mindset and Enjoyment
LEAP Organizational Culture: Autonomy and Performance
Cultural Transformation: TREAT for LEAP
Challenges of Change Management
Essentials of Change Management: Leadership
Essentials of Change Management: Coalition
Essentials of Change Management: Culture
Essential Reading: Cultural Transformation at Microsoft
Essential Reading: Leadership and Organizational Culture: Two Sides of a Coin
Essential Reading: L-E-A-P: Rethinking Organizational Culture for New-Age Organizations
Essential Reading: How Satya Nadella Brought a Growth Mindset to Microsoft
Essential Reading: Reinventing Microsoft - 4 Cultural Hacks by Satya Nadella
Recommended Reading: Case Study: Satya Nadella at Microsoft
Recommended Readings: Ethics, Culture, and Change Management
Reference Watch: Invictus
Navigating Ethical Dilemmas
Leadership and Culture
Leadership and Change Management
Graded Quiz: Ethics, Culture, and Change Management
Leadership and Ancient Indian Wisdom: Lessons from the Mahabharata
Mahabharata: The Origin
Mahabharata: Plot and the Conflict
Mahabharata Characters: Bhishma - The Grandsire
Mahabharata Characters: The Kauravas
Mahabharata Characters: The Pandavas
Mahabharata’s Other Characters: Karna, Dronacharya, and Ashvatthama
Karna: The Quest for Identity
Ashwatthama: Mindfulness and Emotional Stability
Kunti: Vision, Values, and Positive Leader Behaviors
Shakuni: Power, Politics, and Stratagem
Bhishma: Life and Deeds
Bhishma: Resolving Paradoxes
Krishna: Life and Deeds
Krishna: Principled Pragmatism
The Mahabharata Code: The Leadership Triangle
Essential Reading: Demystifying Leadership: Unveiling the Mahabharata Code
Reference Watch: Mahabharata
Understanding the Mahabharata and its Characters
Lessons from the Mahabharata: Individual and Organisational Leadership
Lessons from the Mahabharata: Resolving Paradoxes and Ethical Dilemmas
Graded Quiz: Leadership and Ancient Indian Wisdom: Lessons from the Mahabharata
Peer Review Assignment
Course Wrap-up
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