Online courses to build your leadership skills
Leading a team or an organisation is not as simple as it may sound and it does not come with a step by step manual. Much of it is based on personal experience and constant learning.
Especially if you’re a woman, the job gets even more difficult. Female executives face a range of challenges in every stage of their career, preventing many of them from achieving their goal of becoming a leader at their company and diminishing their ability to get ahead in business.
Whether you are an entrepreneur, an executive, a manager, or even an entry-level employee, developing your leadership skills is crucial to your career trajectory. Leadership training can help shape you into the leader you want to be and teach you how to shape the next generation of leaders in your organization.
Moonshot has gathered 7 online courses that can help you develop the optimal leadership qualities for your organization and career.
Strategies for Leadership, IMB Business School
Strategies for Leadership is a women leadership program. It is ideal for you if you are looking for a different type of leadership program, one where you can express the unique challenges you may be facing in your workplace as a woman who wants to expand her leadership influence and get ahead with her career.
This women’s leadership development program brings together senior women leaders from around the world. It is designed to enable you to develop greater influence and impact by revealing your authentic, most effective leadership style.
Through extensive professional and peer-to-peer coaching as well as thought-provoking plenary sessions, you will reflect on your personal leadership challenges, grow your skills further, deepen your self-awareness, reveal who you are as a leader and discover your unique and most authentic leadership style.
The program has a duration of 4 days with 1 post-program coaching session. Next cohort start on June 14, 2022.
Leadership Principles, Harvard Business School
Leadership Principles is designed to help new and aspiring leaders unleash the potential in themselves and others, and cultivate high-performing teams.
This online program will help you understand your motivational drivers, emotional intelligence, and communication methods to establish a personal leadership style; apply or adapt your leadership style to meet specific challenges; manage the conditions that drive team performance; coach colleagues and share feedback in ways that enable them to develop and deliver; handle stressful and demanding leadership situations; take charge of your professional development as you navigate the challenges of transitioning from an individual contributor to a leader.
You can start this 6-week program on 3 November, 2021, on 26 January 2022, or on 30 March 2022.
Oxford Executive Leadership Programme
If you are a member of, or are associated with, a UK-based professional body, then you should definitely take a look at this program that the University of Oxford offers. The Oxford Executive Leadership Programme – certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service – will help you develop a practical leadership framework to create value in your organisation.
Within approximately 80 hours of learning, in self-paced weekly modules, you’ll get to know tools and frameworks to refine your personal leadership purpose, in alignment with the purpose of your organisation. You’ll enhance your skills to face workplace challenges, such as having difficult conversations, leading teams, and dealing with complexity, and you’ll learn leadership strategies for driving organisational change and preparing for the future.
Stanford Leadership Program
Another interesting option is Stanford’s LEAD, which leverages the best of Stanford Graduate School of Business to provide you with the tools and techniques to become a more impactful leader by unlocking higher purpose in yourself, your teams, and your organization.
The program consists of nine courses and it takes one year to complete, requiring a weekly time commitment of 5-10 hours. You can take it part-time and fully online. Program dates are 16 March 2022 – 15 March 2023 and applications are open until 2 February 2022.
Leading People and Teams Specialization, Coursera
In this specialization, offered by the University of Michigan on the Coursera platform, 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, but also 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. We will share with you our research on how to lead people and teams effectively, and work with you to apply these insights to your own teams and leadership.
The program takes approximately 5 months to complete at a suggested pace of 3 hours per week.
Management Skills: New Manager Training in Essential Skills, Udemy
Most new managers have the technical skills to succeed. What they often lack is the skill of managing, motivating and developing their employees. This course aims to provide those skills that are essential to your success as a manager.
It will teach you how to motivate your employees and create high engagement and empowerment, how ro provide specific job training for your team members, how to lead teams to become high performing teams engaged in continuous improvement, to understand and develop “lean management” problem-solving and process improvement, and resolve conflicts with others and among team members.
The course includes 11 hours on-demand video, 13 articles and 27 downloadable resources.
Leadership: Practical Skills, LinkedIn Learning
This 2,1/2-hour course, offered by LinkedIn Learning, provides leaders and managers of all levels with an introduction to the basic skills they need to lead their teams to success.
Based on theories instructor Chris Croft has acquired over 20 years of teaching, the course explores the qualities of a great leader, theories of motivation, leadership styles, and core proficiencies like connecting with your team and effectively delegating work. In closing, Chris provides an optional pledge, which can help you commit to being a better boss.
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