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Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization

Leadership and Business Skill for Immediate Impact. Apply practical strategies to becoming an effective organizational leader.

Jeff Flesher
Joe Mahoney
Deepak Somaya

Instructors: Jeff Flesher +8 more

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Skills you'll gain

  • Category: Corporate Strategy
  • Category: Strategic Thinking
  • Category: Team Management
  • Category: Conflict Management
  • Category: Business Ethics
  • Category: Stakeholder Management
  • Category: Change Management
  • Category: Safety Culture
  • Category: Organizational Change
  • Category: Organizational Strategy
  • Category: Business Strategies
  • Category: Drive Engagement
  • Category: Organizational Structure
  • Category: Negotiation
  • Category: Organizational Leadership
  • Category: Strategic Leadership
  • Category: Leadership Development
  • Category: Team Leadership
  • Category: Leadership
  • Category: Business Strategy

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Specialization - 7 course series

What you'll learn

  • Define leadership in a way that facilitates personal leadership growth,.

  • Discover the role of understanding yourself to grow as a leader,.

  • Explore interpersonal interactions that are core to effective leadership.

  • Utilize a framework to further your own leadership development.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Decision Making
Category: Leadership
Category: Conflict Management
Category: Self-Awareness
Category: Business Leadership
Category: Relationship Building
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Lifelong Learning
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Professional Development
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: People Development
Category: Courage
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Emotional Intelligence
Category: Trustworthiness
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Growth Mindedness
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Negotiation

What you'll learn

  • Articulate a conceptual understanding of team culture and why it matters for team success.

  • Identify and evaluate elements of psychological safety and the correlation to team performance.

  • Identify and evaluate ways to engage team members to work collaboratively to solve problems.

  • Create a practice for crafting cultures of problem solving to encourage teams to learn and grow with the changing dynamics of business needs.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Innovation
Category: Motivational Skills
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Drive Engagement
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Team Management
Category: Employee Engagement
Category: Stress Management
Category: Team Motivation
Category: Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiatives
Category: Team Building
Category: Culture
Category: Adaptability
Category: Safety Culture
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Creativity
Category: Teamwork
Category: Leadership Development
Designing the Organization

Designing the Organization

Course 3 13 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify and explain many of the common organizational design challenges faced by organizations

  • Apply theory and principles to more effectively deal with these organizational design challenges in your own professional life

  • Analyze the effectiveness of organizational design choices in various organizations

  • Make organizational design recommendations to increase organizational effectiveness

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Management
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Innovation
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Decision Making
Category: Governance
Category: Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG)
Category: Growth Strategies
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Strategic Thinking
Managing the Organization

Managing the Organization

Course 4 13 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify and explain common challenges faced by managers in organizations.

  • Apply theory and principles to become a more effective manager in your own professional life.

  • Analyze the effectiveness of managerial decisions in various organizations.

  • Make managerial recommendations to increase organizational effectiveness.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Organizational Change
Category: Decision Making
Category: Change Management
Category: Culture
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: People Analytics
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: People Management
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Influencing
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Business Management
Business Strategy

Business Strategy

Course 5 19 hours

What you'll learn

  • Explain how different functions and activities fit together in a firm and how they align with the environment to create overall business performance.

  • Describe and employ important strategic management tools and frameworks for business models.

  • Apply strategic management tools and frameworks to business contexts in an appropriate manner to arrive at insights for strategic decision making.

  • Develop a coherent and actionable strategic plan by critically analyzing and processing abundant and diverse business and industry information.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Strategy
Category: Corporate Strategy
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Competitive Analysis
Category: Innovation
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Business Management
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Market Analysis
Corporate Strategy

Corporate Strategy

Course 6 11 hours

What you'll learn

  • Explain how corporations create and capture value as multi-business enterprises.

  • Analyze complex strategic business situations and formulate coherent corporate strategies.

  • Use tools and frameworks to make choices regarding corporate scope, corporate transactions and global strategy.

  • Apply strategic analysis to corporate governance and stakeholder management for long run strategic success.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Corporate Strategy
Category: Business Strategy
Category: Global Marketing
Category: Growth Strategies
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
Category: International Finance
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG)
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Business
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Business Valuation
Category: Corporate Sustainability
Category: Corporate Finance
Category: Competitive Analysis
Category: Strategic Partnership
Category: New Business Development
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Governance

What you'll learn

  • Demonstrate knowledge of concepts, theories, and approaches learned in Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization courses.

  • Apply Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization course related tools, techniques, and approaches to realistic business situations.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Business Priorities
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Performance Analysis
Category: Leadership
Category: Growth Strategies
Category: Business Strategy
Category: Market Opportunities
Category: Business Metrics
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Business Planning
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Team Building
Category: Process Optimization
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Operational Efficiency
Category: Change Management
Category: Leadership and Management

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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹

 

Instructors

Jeff Flesher
Jeff Flesher
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9 Courses 37,465 learners
Joe Mahoney
Joe Mahoney
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 Course 57,748 learners
Deepak Somaya
Deepak Somaya
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
7 Courses 114,597 learners

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