Strategic Leadership and Management

Jeff Flesher, Gregory Northcraft, Huseyin Leblebici, Deepak Somaya, Joe Mahoney, Jeffrey Loewenstein, Jack Goncalo, E. Geoffrey Love, Michael Bednar, Denise Lewin Loyd, Elizabeth A. Luckman, and Kari Keating

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.

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.

The specialization culminates in a capstone: a leadership and management plan where you’ll apply what you’ve learned to a business situation. With participation by one or more focal companies, the experiential and hands-on deliverable will provide valuable practice and create value from the perspective of potential employers.

This Specialization is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admissions into the program and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into the program here.

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What's inside

Seven courses

Leading Teams: Developing as a Leader

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In this foundational course, you will develop as a leader. You will explore leadership, assess competencies, learn about yourself, build relationships, and grow as a leader.

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Leading Teams: Building Effective Team Cultures

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In this course, you will explore different facets of team culture that are at the root of effective teams. You'll learn more about cultures of safety, engagement, and growth, so that you can lead your teams toward cultures that facilitate the most effective teamwork.

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Designing the Organization

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Organizations are complex and can be difficult to manage well. In this course, you will learn theories, principles, and frameworks that will help you design more effective organizations.

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Managing the Organization

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This course aims to enhance your managerial skills by providing insights into the complexities of organizational life. You'll learn theories and frameworks to effectively manage and lead organizations, enabling you to:

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Business Strategy

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In this course, you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value. You'll develop an understanding of how and why this process is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand value creation, and capture and learn the tools to analyze both competition and cooperation from a variety of perspectives.

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Corporate Strategy

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In this course, you will learn how corporations create, capture, and maintain value. It is a complement to a course on Business Strategy, which focuses on developing and sustaining competitive advantage for a single business unit. Here, you will be able to better understand and learn the tools to analyze and manage decisions from a corporate-level perspective, which emphasizes the management of multiple businesses and multiple stakeholders.

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