Leadership and Disruption from Coursera

This course is fully focused on developing your new leadership skills. It was developed with the best models and based on best practices in the corporate world. Its content is current and practical, and updated with the latest in remote leadership, especially after the radical and disruptive changes that the world has had since the global pandemic.

As an interactive participant in this course, you’ll learn how to make effectively integrate the 3 elements of successful leadership, the LAB model: Learn, Apply and Benefit.

Going beyond other courses on leadership, you will benefit from each piece of knowledge: that is why we call each “module” a LAB experience! During the 12 LABs, which are distributed over four weeks, you will explore topics such as: Great reset and your new roles as a leader, engagement and master communication, feedback, life long learning, disruptive business, storytelling innovation and digital transformation.

This course is about understanding and developing your leadership style, balance your personal and professional life and propose practical tools to influence remote team members, stakeholders and disrupt your way of making business. Learn how you can enhance your ability to anticipate and craft the future, how to apply storytelling principles to engage others, and how to effectively navigate the challenges of significant organizational disruptions.

You are invited to start a new journey on your career, leaning applying and benefit from new, critical and disruptive competencies, a must for the next years to come!

What's inside

Syllabus

Disruptive leadership

Start by watching the first video to understand the LAB concept (Learn, Apply, and Benefit). During the first course week, you will gain an appreciation of the changes in the business scenario and the urgent need for new leadership competencies. You will understand how storytelling can be a powerful strategic communications tool to inform, engage, motivate and inspire remote teams and disrupt business, learning throughout real stories.

Life Long Learner

During the second course week you will understand how you can become a lifelong learner and focus on continual learning of new, in-demand skills to face the future of work successfully. Learning throughout real stories you will also recognize the importance of developing priorities and purpose and how to plan your life balance, finding a harmony between personal and professional lives.

What do they need

During the third course week you will know how to lead hybrid, face to face and/or remote teams. Learning throughout real stories you will understand the new models of leadership that will equip you for the new workplace, new demands and new challenges in the years to come and know how you can effectively delegate, follow up and give feedback.

Future is now

During the fourth course week you will know how to how to effectively navigate the challenges of significant organizational disruptions. These topics are particularly relevant in the wake of the global business transformation and disruption: leaders will need to develop new models for leading themselves, team and business. You will learn from some real stories and examples that will reference lessons leaders around the world in themes like digital transformation, innovation, disruption, agile leadership.

Good to know

Know what's good

, what to watch for

, and possible dealbreakers

Develops critical and disruptive competencies that are essential for future career success

Emphasizes the importance of lifelong learning and personal-professional balance

Provides practical tools and strategies for leading remote teams and stakeholders

Offers a comprehensive understanding of successful leadership based on the LAB model: Learn, Apply, and Benefit

Covers essential leadership topics such as engagement, feedback, storytelling, innovation, and digital transformation

Taught by experienced instructor Alfredo Castro, recognized for his expertise in leadership and corporate practices

Reviews summary

Well-received leadership course

Learners largely praise this engaging and practical course on leadership and disruption. According to students, the course offers plentiful insights, knowledge, and tools for honing leadership skills and reassessing what leadership entails. Students especially loved Professor Alfredo Castro's teaching style, describing his explanations as clear and easy to understand. The course's blend of videos, readings, and assignments was also well-received by learners.

Encourages rethinking leadership

"Course is good for new leaders and managers, specially to work new capabilities and on how to rethink what leadership is. Worths the value."

"This course is efficient and complete. It invited me to rethink many things and improve my leadership skills."

"Excellent course. Lot of new concepts for learning and implementing. I believe it made a difference to me."

Course is practical and engaging

"A great course for updating my skills 'post pandemic'. It was very practical and engaging."

"This course is efficient and complete. It invited me to rethink many things and improve my leadership skills. I can apply what I learned immediately."

"Very helpful, fruitful, practical oriented course. I have learnt lots of things by completing this course."

Offers valuable insights and knowledge

"Excellent course, thank you for giving this valuable course for free."

"Great!! Very didactic and easy to understand and fixing leanring. Excellent videos and support materials."

"I encourage every leader of worth to undergo this training. it is easy to learn and also useful."

Professor Alfredo Castro well-received

"Professor Alfredo is great ! You can have great insights and concepts about leadership. "

"This is excellent course. Prof. Alfredo Castro explain the course materials very easy o understand and down to earth."

"If the rest of the classes of this MBA are going to be as Prof. Alfredo Castro's Class for sure this will be an amazing experience, very enjoyable and great experience."

Activities

Be better prepared before your course. Deepen your understanding during and after it. Supplement your coursework and achieve mastery of the topics covered in Leadership and Disruption with these activities:

Review models of leadership

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Reviewing past coursework where leadership models were discussed will increase your readiness to learn about disruptive leadership.

Browse courses on Leadership Models

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Go through your collection of class notes and assignments
Review your old textbooks especially in the chapters where models of leadership are introduced.
Take a practice quiz on these leadership models

Identify current personal leadership style

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Summarizing your experiences as a leader will better prepare you to posit your weaknesses and strengths as a leader.

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Reflect on a time when you were a leader
Summarize your experiences by roles,responsibilities, and the challenges you faced
Conclude by stating your leadership style

Learn Data Management Best Practices

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Review fundamental concepts and explore best practices for data management through online tutorials.

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Identify reputable sources for data management tutorials.
Search for tutorials covering data governance, data quality, and data security.
Take notes on the best practices and methodologies presented in the tutorials.
Apply what you learn to your own data management tasks.

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Read: Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

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This book will further enhance your understanding of leadership presence and vulnerability especially during challenging times

View Atlas of the Heart on Amazon

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Get a copy of the book
Make ample time to read this book
Take notes or highlight sections as you read
Reflect on how the concepts in the book can be applied to your own leadership style

Develop a presentation on a leadership topic

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Developing a presentation on a leadership topic will deepen your understanding of the topic and help you develop your public speaking skills.

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Choose a leadership topic that you are interested in
Research the topic and gather information
Create a presentation that is engaging and informative
Practice your presentation and get feedback from others

Attend a workshop on disruptive leadership

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Attending a workshop on disruptive leadership will expose you to new ideas and trends in leadership.

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Find a workshop on disruptive leadership that is relevant to your interests
Register for the workshop and attend
Participate in the workshop activities and discussions
Take notes and reflect on what you learn

Mentor a junior or aspiring leader

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Mentoring others will help you to develop and refine your own leadership skills as it involves reflecting on your personal experiences as a leader and distilling these to help others.

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Identify a junior or aspiring leader who you can mentor
Meet with your mentee on a regular basis to provide guidance and support
Share your own experiences and insights on leadership
Help your mentee to develop their own leadership skills

Contribute to an open source project focused on leadership development

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Participating in open source projects on leadership development gives you hands-on experience on key leadership concepts.

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Find an open source project focused on leadership development that you are interested in
Join the project and start contributing
Collaborate with other contributors on the project
Share your knowledge and experience with the project community

Career center

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