Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization by University of Illinois (Coursera)
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers this leadership certificate program as part of their iMBA degree program. It teaches effective organizational leadership strategies. Participants learn the fundamentals of business in order to effectively lead people and teams, manage organizations through organizational design, tools for analyzing business situations and competition, and formulating and implementing strategies both within a business and across a portfolio of businesses. The specialization includes seven courses that cover the strategic, human resource, and organizational foundations for creating and capturing value for long-term competitive advantage. The courses are:
- Foundations of Everyday Leadership
- Applications of Everyday Leadership
- Designing the Organization
- Managing the Organization
- Business Strategy
- Corporate Strategy
- Strategic Leadership and Management Capstone
The capstone project is a strategic leadership and management plan where learners apply the foundations of leadership to an actual business situation faced by leaders.
Key Highlights
- Get business and leadership training from world-class faculty at University of Illinois
- Understand how organizations are designed and managed
- Learn to lead people and teams, manage conflict and lead change in an organization
- Learn the skills to negotiate effectively and influence others
- Learn how to think like a CEO, entrepreneur, or general manager
- Understand how corporations create and capture value as multi-business enterprises
- Understand the role of corporate governance and stakeholder management in modern companies
- Learn to coordinate different functional areas, resources, and systems inside a company and align them with the eternal environment to enhance overall performance
Duration : 8 months, 3 hours per week
Rating : 4.7/5.0
Enroll here: coursera.org/specializations/strategic-leadership
