Leading Strategic Innovation: How to Lead with Purpose (FutureLearn)

Leading Strategic Innovation: How to Lead with Purpose (FutureLearn)

Discover the importance of strategic thinking, innovation, and purposeful leadership when dealing with change. Refine your leadership purpose and learn how to innovate through change. Change is inevitable in both your personal and professional life. Although sometimes unexpected, it offers an opportunity to improve and innovate. On this course, you will investigate the nature of change and learn about the concept of strategic innovation.

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You will critically reflect on your past experiences of change to understand how you deal with it. You will also explore your own leadership capabilities. By identifying areas of strategic innovation, you will learn how to make a positive difference during times of change and growth.

What topics will you cover?

  • Personal experience of change
  • Leadership and strategic purpose
  • Strategic thinking
  • Strategic drift
  • Organisational change
  • The playing to win model

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Explore the concept and practice of strategic thinking.
  • Develop your understanding of change at a personal level.
  • Identify and define your leadership purpose.
  • Investigate strategic drift and the nature of change.
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