Ready to move from delivering the work to leading the people who deliver it?
Leadership Foundations is a practical, beginner-level specialization designed to help you move from individual contributor to effective manager through focused leadership training built around real workplace challenges.
Designed especially for budding managers, mid-level managers, team leaders, and professionals preparing for leadership roles, it combines management foundations with leadership skills training in building trust and motivation for making better decisions, effective delegation, coaching performance, and handling challenging conversations.
You’ll also learn to apply practical leadership and management frameworks such as DISC, SBI, RAPID, OODA, and the Trust Equation through story-based scenarios that strengthen workplace skills you can use immediately.
By the end, you’ll be ready to build trust, communicate with influence, make smarter decisions, navigate conflicts, and lead teams with greater accountability and confidence.
Enroll now and strengthen the way you lead, communicate, decide, and develop teams at work.
Applied Learning Project
Throughout the specialization, you will find story-based and scenario-driven lessons. You will also:
Diagnose your own leadership style and apply the Trust Equation, DISC, RAPID, and OODA frameworks to real team scenarios.
Practice the 7 Levels of Delegation and the GROW coaching model to assign work and develop people without micromanaging.
Apply Maslow's Hierarchy, Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory, and Self-Determination Theory to motivate different personality types.
Deliver feedback using the SBI Model and a structured performance-conversation flow in realistic manager-employee scenarios.
Work through negotiation case studies covering six sources of power, win-win strategy, and reading hidden agendas.
Apply the Rational Decision-Making Model and SWOT Analysis, and work through real case studies like Target Canada's decision failure.
Complete role-plays and dialogue exercises on building an accountability mindset and leading through an accountability challenge.




















