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Leadership (Coursera)

Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

In this course, you will develop and strengthen your capacity to lead and recognize leadership exhibited by others in your organization. The professional business skills related to leadership gained through this course will help you to succeed working in any organization.

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What You Will Learn

Develop and strengthen your capacity to lead and recognize leadership exhibited by those around you in the organization

Course 4 of 4 in the Professional Success Skills Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Course Introduction & Module 1 - Managing the Organization
This module starts with a course introduction, then will introduce different types of decision-making processes and will highlight some common decision-making biases that can affect managers, including a number of ethical decision-making traps.

WEEK 2
Project Initiation and Planning
In this module, you will learn about the life cycle of a project when using the traditional model for project management. Why is it called waterfall, and how does that dictate the process? The focus will be on the first state of the project life cycle, project initiation.

WEEK 3
Leadership Fundamentals
This module starts by defining leadership, then introduces key components of effective leadership.

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