Leading People and Teams Specialization by University of Michigan (Coursera)
The experts at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business created this leadership development program. It teaches essential leadership skills like inspiring and motivating others, managing talent, influencing without authority, and leading teams. It is filled with real-life stories and interviews with industry leaders, so students learn leadership practices and techniques that they would not have learned otherwise. The specialization is organized into five comprehensive courses, each of which includes a series of practical leadership assignments that allow learners to apply their new leadership skills to real-life scenarios. The following are the courses:
- Inspiring and Motivating Individuals – Learn how to create a shared vision for your team and effectively communicate it to your teammates.
- Managing Talent – Learn the best practices for selecting, recruiting, and onboarding talent.
- Influencing People – Learn tactics and strategies that are proven to work for gaining power and influencing people.
- Leading Teams – Learn best practices for composing a team and aligning individual and team goals.
- Leading People and Teams Capstone – The Capstone project involves either working with senior-level executives to help them solve their most pressing leadership challenges or identifying your own leadership challenge and developing a coherent set of solutions for overcoming it.
Key Highlights
- One of the most popular and highly-rated Coursera leadership program with more than 77,000 students enrolled
- Gain insights into how to lead people and teams effectively and understand how to apply them to your own teams and leadership
- Learn the Michigan Model of Leadership to define organizational goals
- Learn to create a high-quality team charter that enhances team performance
- Learn directly from Michigan faculty and several prolific industry leaders
- No prerequisite to take the courses. Anybody interested in pursuing leadership and management training can enrol
Duration : 5 months, 3 hours per week
Rating : 4.7/5.0
Enroll here: coursera.org/specializations/leading-teams
