This course is part of the Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization

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Strategic Leadership and Management SpecializationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About this Course

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This course is intended to help you become a better manager by helping you to more fully understand and deal with some of the complexities and challenges associated with managerial life in organizations.  In this course, you will learn theories, principles, and frameworks that will help you to more effectively manage and lead the organizations that you belong to.  We will view organizations from different perspectives that we will use as lenses to help us highlight common managerial challenges and point us toward solutions to those challenges.  Some of these common challenges that we will explore in this course include using power effectively, implementing organizational change, understanding and managing organizational culture, decision-making including decision-making pitfalls and ethical traps, and leadership.  As you learn and apply the principles from this course, you will be better prepared to navigate some of the complex challenges that you face as a manager.

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English

Subtitles: French, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, English, Spanish

Skills you will gain

Organizational CultureEthicsDecision-MakingStrategic LeadershipOrganizational Change

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Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization

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Approx. 12 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: French, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, English, Spanish

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a world leader in research, teaching and public engagement, distinguished by the breadth of its programs, broad academic excellence, and internationally renowned faculty and alumni. Illinois serves the world by creating knowledge, preparing students for lives of impact, and finding solutions to critical societal needs.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

1 hour to complete

Course Orientation

You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.

1 hour to complete

3 videos (Total 15 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

3 videos

Welcome to the course10m

About Professor Michael Bednar1m

About Professor Geoffrey Love2m

4 readings

Syllabus10m

Glossary10m

About the Discussion Forums10m

Updating Your Profile10m

1 practice exercise

Orientation Quiz10m

3 hours to complete

MODULE 1: POWER AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

This module will introduce you to principles of power so that you can recognize where power comes from and use you power more effectively as a manager. This module will also explore models of organizational change and best practices that can help you successfully implement a change initiative.

3 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 65 min), 2 readings, 8 quizzes

9 videos

1.1 Introduction48s

1.2 Sources of Power9m

1.3 Networks and Power7m

1.4 Using Power5m

1.5 Organizational Change10m

1.6 Getting People to Commit to Change and Overcoming Resistance to Change9m

1.7 Choosing Strategies for Change9m

1.8 A Model for Implementing Major Change10m

Like this course? Learn more with the iMBA! (optional)1m

2 readings

Module 1 Overview10m

Module 1 Readings10m

8 practice exercises

Lesson 1.2 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 1.3 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 1.4 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 1.5 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 1.6 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 1.7 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 1.8 Practice Quiz10m

Module 1 Quiz20m

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

MODULE 2: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

This module will explore the concept of organizational culture and will help you to understand where it comes from and how you can manage and shape culture in your organization.

2 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 33 min), 2 readings, 6 quizzes

5 videos

2.1 What is Culture5m

2.2 Levels of Culture7m

2.3 The Pros and Cons of a Strong Culture6m

2.4 Culture and Competitive Advantage4m

2.5 Sources of Culture9m

2 readings

Module 2 Overview10m

Module 2 Readings10m

6 practice exercises

Lesson 2.1 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 2.2 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 2.3 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 2.4 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 2.5 Practice Quiz10m

Module 2 Quiz20m

Week

Week 3

4 hours to complete

MODULE 3: DECISION-MAKING AND ETHICS

This module will introduce different types of decision-making processes and will highlight some common decision-making biases that can affect managers, including a number of ethical decision-making traps.

4 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 51 min), 2 readings, 9 quizzes

7 videos

3.1 Introduction to Decision Making in Organizations4m

Lesson 3.2 Rational, Boundedly Rational, and Intuitive Decision-Making9m

3.3 Biases in Human Decision-Making9m

3.4 Prospect Theory and How Losses Loom Larger than Gains9m

3.5 Ethical Decision-Making Traps7m

3.6 Rationalization5m

3.7 Ethical Decision-Making Tests5m

2 readings

Module 3 Overview10m

Module 3 Readings10m

8 practice exercises

Lesson 3.1 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 3.2 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 3.3 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 3.4 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 3.5 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 3.6 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 3.7 Practice Quiz10m

Module 3 Quiz20m

Week

Week 4

2 hours to complete

MODULE 4: LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS

This module will highlight several perspectives on organizational leadership and will use a leadership lens to review key principles that have been discussed in the course.

2 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 47 min), 3 readings, 5 quizzes

7 videos

4.1 Introduction to Leadership9m

4.2 Path-Goal Model of Leadership7m

4.3 Transactional vs. Transformational Leadership10m

4.4 Leadership as Organization Building8m

4.5 Leadership and the Problems of Organizations3m

4.6 Course Recap4m

Gies Online Programs3m

3 readings

Module 4 Overview10m

Module 4 Readings10m

Congratulations!10m

5 practice exercises

Lesson 4.1 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 4.2 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 4.3 Practice Quiz10m

Lesson 4.4 Practice Quiz10m

Module 4 Quiz20m

About the Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization

Enhance leadership and business skills for immediate impact. Practice everyday leadership, manage people, learn and apply concepts and techniques to effectively manage organizations through organizational design, and formulate and implement strategy.

Through the courses in this specialization, you will learn the fundamentals to effectively lead people and teams, manage organizations as well as tools to analyze business situations and develop strategies. The Specialization covers the strategic, human resource, and organizational foundations for creating and capturing value for sustainable competitive advantage – including how to manage people and organizations, analyze the competition, and develop strategies both within a business and across a portfolio of businesses. The capstone is a strategic leadership and management plan where you’ll apply what you will learn to an actual business situation with participation by one or more focal companies. The deliverable will be designed to create value from the perspective of potential employers while achieving pedagogical and experiential goals for learners. This Specialization is part of the University of Illinois Masters of Business Administration degree program, the iMBA. Learn more about the admission into the program here and how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into the program. You can also start with for-credit courses within the Illinois iMBA degree program.

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