Professional Success Skills Specialization

To become job-ready, you need to develop technical knowledge and skills. Those skills can help you get through that first door. But then what? Completing this professional certificate will help you learn and develop skills that can lead to success working in any organization! Skills that not only help you succeed in that first job, but also ensure that first job is the start of a long, successful career.
Collectively, the materials in this certificate program will help you develop and enhance professional business skills that facilitate your success throughout your chosen career. Through this specialization, you will:
- Acquire a deep understanding of the importance and role of ethics within and beyond the organization
- Realize the benefits and challenges of a diverse culture and changing global perspectives
- Enhance your ability to work creatively within the organization
- Understand the importance and role of teamwork and develop skills that differentiate yourself as a team player
- Communicate using common organizational language, concepts, and frameworks useful for decision-making and problem-solving
- Develop and strengthen your capacity to lead and recognize leadership exhibited by those around you
This certificate program features top faculty from the University of Illinois' Gies College of Business and includes practical application-based content as well as academic theory. The coursework is career-curated and will be immediately applicable and relevant.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Enhance your ability and opportunity to work creatively within an organization
- Understand the importance and role of teamwork within an organization
- Communicate using common organizational language, concepts, and frameworks useful for decision-making and problem-solving
- Develop and strengthen your capacity to lead and recognize leadership exhibited by those around you in the organization

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Leadership (Coursera)

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.

Ethics, Culture, and Global Perspectives (Coursera)

In this course, you will acquire a deep understanding of the importance and role of ethics within and beyond the organization as well as realize the benefits and challenges of a diverse culture and various – and changing – global perspectives. The professional business skills related to ethics, culture, [...]

Organizational Concepts and Language (Coursera)

In this course, you will learn how to communicate using common organizational language, concepts, and frameworks useful for decision-making and problem-solving. The professional business skills related to business concepts and language gained through this course will help you to succeed working in any [...]

Teamwork and Creativity (Coursera)

In this course, you will enhance your ability and opportunity to work creatively within any organization, learn to understand the importance and role of teamwork within the organization, and develop skills that differentiate yourself as a team player. The professional business skills related to teamwork and creativity gained through [...]