Leading People and Teams Specialization by University of Michigan (Coursera)

This leadership development program has been created by experts from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. It imparts essential leadership skills, such as inspiring and motivating individuals, managing talent, influencing without authority, and leading teams. It is full of real-life stories and interviews with exceptional leaders from the industry, so the students end up learning leadership practices and techniques which would otherwise not be accessible to them.

The specialization is structured as 5 comprehensive courses, each of which contains a series of practical leadership assignments that gives learners the opportunity to apply the new leadership traits to real life scenarios. The courses are as follows:

1. Inspiring and Motivating Individuals – Learn how to create a shared vision for your team and effectively communicate it to your teammates.
2. Managing Talent – Learn the best practices for selecting, recruiting, and onboarding talent.
3. Influencing People – Learn tactics and strategies that are proven to work for gaining power and influencing people.
4. Leading Teams – Learn best practices for composing a team and aligning individual and team goals.
5. Leading People and Teams Capstone – The Capstone project involves either working with senior-level executives to help them solve their most pressing leadership challenges or identifying your own leadership challenge and developing a coherent set of solutions for overcoming it.

Key Highlights

• One of the most popular and highly-rated Coursera leadership program with more than 77,000 students enrolled
• Gain insights into how to lead people and teams effectively and understand how to apply them to your own teams and leadership
• Learn the Michigan Model of Leadership to define organizational goals
• Learn to create a high-quality team charter that enhances team performance
• Learn directly from Michigan faculty and several prolific industry leaders
• No prerequisite to take the courses. Anybody interested in pursuing leadership and management training can enrol

Duration : 5 months, 3 hours per week

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