5+1 courses to develop your leadership potential
Strong leaders, real difference makers, and people who leave their mark on the world of business have one thing in common: they inspire success.
For this reason, it’s important for businesses to have effective leaders that can set goals, inspire others, create the conditions for their teams to thrive, and guide an organization towards sustainable success.
If you’re already a leader or paving your path to the C-suite, Moonshot has gathered 6 online courses that can help you further develop your leadership potential and skills. The programmes cover a variety of topics – such as leading strong teams, becoming more resilient and navigating workplace challenges.
Oxford Women’s Leadership Development Programme
Oxford Women’s Leadership Development Programme is ideal for women that are preparing to move into a senior management or C-suite role, for women that want to gain confidence in theirr unique abilities as a leader, and for those who want to develop their leadership skills, to navigate the challenges women face at different stages of their career.
The programme aims to give you:
- A personal development plan for leadership, based on key themes of self-acceptance, self-management, and self-development.
- Tools, frameworks, and practices to help you navigate workplace challenges and to further your ability to lead, negotiate and influence with impact.
- A self-reflective understanding and acceptance of your unique leadership style and strengths.
- The opportunity to join a global network of like-minded professionals striving to drive gender balance in leadership positions.
Essential Management Skills for Emerging Leaders – Harvard University
Companies across every industry are facing complex organizational challenges that require the rapid development of new and agile leaders. More than ever before, emerging leaders must quickly learn and deploy core management skills, develop a broad strategic perspective, take their leadership skills to the next level, and expand their professional and personal networks.
Presented over three months, this intensive fully online program is designed to help new managers master core business concepts and build key skills in six subject areas, including leadership, strategy, marketing, communication, and negotiation. Participants will gain a cross-functional view through sessions led by instructors specializing in each subject area and through project-based learning.
Become a More Resilient Leader in Turbulent Times
If you’re looking for something more quick, you can also check out this free, 35-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson, aiming to help you develop the skills to lead with courage and conviction through challenging times.
What you’ll learn:
- Explore how Shackleton and his crew survived a life-threatening crisis in Antartica by focusing on engagement, positivity, and teamwork.
- Gain leadership insights you can apply to your work.
Leading People and Teams
In this specialization, offered by the University of Michigan, you will learn essential leadership skills, including how to inspire and motivate individuals, manage talent, influence without authority, and lead teams. You will not only learn from Michigan faculty. You will also learn directly from exceptional leaders including Jeff Brodsky, Global Head of HR for Morgan Stanley, and John Beilein, Head Coach of the University of Michigan Men’s Basketball Team.
They will share with you their research on how to lead people and teams effectively, and work with you to apply these insights to your own teams and leadership. In every course, you will have an opportunity to apply new leadership skills by working through a series of practical leadership assignments.
Strategic Leadership and Management
Through this 6-course Specialization in Strategic Leadership and Management, you will learn the fundamentals of effectively leading people, teams, and organizations and develop tools to analyze business situations. In addition to building a conceptual framework for leadership, learners will develop and practice strategies for immediate impact.
The Specialization covers the strategic, human resource, and organizational foundations for creating and capturing value for sustainable competitive advantage both within a single business and across a portfolio of businesses. It is offered by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is part of its Master of Business Administration (iMBA) degree.
International Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Leaders in business and non-profit organizations increasingly work across national borders and in multi-cultural environments. You may work regularly with customers or suppliers abroad, or be part of a globally dispersed cross-functional team, or an expatriate manager on an international assignment. You may be a member of a global online community, or a development aid worker collaborating with an international network of partner organizations.
In all of these contexts, your effectiveness as a leader depends on how well you understand and are able to manage individual and collective behaviors in an intercultural context.
If you want to learn how organizations behave and make decisions and at the same time develop leadership skills, then this course might be for you. Together with a team of Bocconi expert faculty and Bocconi alumni, you will explore the theory and practice of international and intercultural leadership and organizational behavior.
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