Leadership Skills
Welcome to the Leadership Skills course! In our increasingly complex world, understanding the practice of leadership is critical. In simpler words, leadership is the practice of influencing people to meet the challenges that will enable them to achieve important individual and organizational goals. This course provides a foundation for leadership practice and aims to take you on a journey of self-discovery. You will also gain insight into building inner stability and developing your leadership skills. This is a beginner course designed for professionals from diverse work backgrounds.
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- Level Foundation
- Duration 46 hours
- Course by IIMA - IIM Ahmedabad
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Welcome to the Leadership Skills course! In our increasingly complex world, understanding the practice of leadership is critical. In simpler words, leadership is the practice of influencing people to meet the challenges that will enable them to achieve important individual and organizational goals. This course provides a foundation for leadership practice and aims to take you on a journey of self-discovery. You will also gain insight into building inner stability and developing your leadership skills. This is a beginner course designed for professionals from diverse work backgrounds. The course helps you lean on your experiences and strengthen your capacity to lead across boundaries, from any political or organizational position, with or without authority. The course will also enable you to learn important leadership skills, clarifying the relationships among key concepts such as definitions of leadership, self-management, authority, power, influence, politics, negotiations, change management, decision-making, and various leadership styles. This knowledge will provide you with a practical and coherent theoretical framework for applying and exercising leadership. Lastly, the course explores the challenge of managing the inevitable personal stresses and dangers of leading a team. The course draws from business management, philosophy, spirituality, history, literature, sports, communications, and psychology. To succeed in this course, you should have experience or a basic understanding of working in organizations.Modules
Course Introduction
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2
Videos
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1
Readings
2
Videos
- Course Introduction
- Meet Your Instructor
1
Readings
- Course Overview
Mindfulness and Inner Stability
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4
Videos
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Mindfulness and Inner Stability
4
Videos
- Automatic Cycle of Behavior
- Multitasking
- Mindfulness
- Our Two Selves
Emotional Intelligence
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6
Videos
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Emotional Intelligence
6
Videos
- Understanding Emotional Intelligence
- Emotional Intelligence: Managing Anger
- Emotional Intelligence: Managing Fear
- Emotional Intelligence: Managing Shame and Guilt
- Emotional Intelligence: Managing Envy
- Emotional Intelligence and Our Inner Talk
Understanding and Developing Positive Strengths
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6
Videos
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4
Readings
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Understanding and Developing Positive Strengths
- Graded Quiz: Leading the Self: Mindfulness, Inner Stability, and Positive Strengths
1
Discussions
- Heal Your Thoughts
6
Videos
- Understanding the Learning Mindset
- Building a Learning Mindset
- Positive Strengths: Hope
- Positive Strengths: Optimism
- Positive Strengths: Resilience
- Positive Strengths: Self-efficacy
4
Readings
- Essential Reading: Mindfulness, the Myth of Multitasking, and Winning Our Inner Game
- Essential Reading: Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Management in Virtual Workplaces
- Recommended Reading: Case Study: Mohan Dixit
- Recommended Readings: Leading the Self: Mindfulness, Inner Stability, and Positive Strengths
TREAT Leadership
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6
Videos
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- TREAT Leadership
6
Videos
- Leadership Challenges for the New-age Organizations
- TREAT Leadership: Task-orientation
- TREAT Leadership: Relation-orientation
- TREAT Leadership: Empowerment
- TREAT Leadership: Authenticity
- TREAT Leadership: Team-building
Leadership Styles
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5
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Leadership Styles
5
Videos
- TREATment styles
- Educate TREATment Style
- Engage and Execute TREATment Style
- Energize TREATment Style
- Empower TREATment Style
1
Readings
- Essential Reading: Leadership Style Inventory
Understanding Your Leadership Style
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4
Videos
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5
Readings
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Understanding Your Leadership Style
- Graded Quiz: Leading Downward: Leader Behaviors and Leadership Styles
1
Discussions
- Leadership Styles and Effectiveness
4
Videos
- Scoring Leadership Style Inventory
- Leadership Effectiveness: Situational Leadership
- Leadership Effectiveness: Managing High Performers
- Leadership Effectiveness: Managing Demotivated Individuals
5
Readings
- Essential Reading: Scoring Key: Leadership Style Inventory
- Essential Reading: Leading Knowledge Organizations in the Post-Covid World
- Essential Reading: T-R-E-A-T Leadership for New-Age Organizations
- Recommended Reading: Case Study: Meera Nair at PhoenixWay: Which Way to Go?
- Recommended Reading: ‘T-R-E-A-T’ Leadership for ‘L-E-A-P’ in a Knowledge-Based World
Associative Coherence and Decision-making Biases
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5
Videos
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Associative Coherence and Decision-making Biases
5
Videos
- Associative Coherence and Decision-Making Bias
- The Anchoring Bias
- The Availability Bias
- Overconfidence and Confirmation Bias
- Framing Bias
Attribute Substitution and Decision-making Biases
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4
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Attribute Substitution and Decision-making Biases
4
Videos
- Attribute Substitution and Representative Bias
- Sunk-cost Bias
- Understanding System 1 and System 2 of Decision-Making
- Developing Skilled Intuitions
1
Readings
- Essential Reading: Caselet: Prakash Mehta and Chandresh Desai
Supportive Communication
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6
Videos
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4
Readings
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Supportive Communication
- Graded Quiz: Building Sustainable Relationships: Supportive Communication and Decision-making Biases
1
Discussions
- Demystifying Intuitive Capabilities
6
Videos
- Supportive Communication
- Principles of Supportive Communication: Listening
- Principles of Supportive Communication: Non-judgmental
- Principles of Supportive Communication: Validating
- Principles of Supportive Communication: Authentic
- Fundamental Techniques of Handling People
4
Readings
- Essential Readings: Types of Decision-Making Biases (And How To Recognize Bias)
- Essential Readings: Common biases and Errors in Decision-Making
- Essential Readings: A Complete Guide on Decision-Making Biases
- Recommended Readings: Building Sustainable Relationships: Supportive Communication and Decision-Making Biases
Understanding Power
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5
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Understanding Power
5
Videos
- Understanding Power in Organizations
- Sources of Power: Personal
- Sources of Power: Positional
- Sources of Power: Relational
- Sources of Power: Conflicts and Dominance
1
Readings
- Essential Reading: Case Study: Aditya Kumar
Developing and Leveraging Networks
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6
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Developing and Leveraging Networks
6
Videos
- Understanding Networks and Their Characteristics
- Understanding Network Characteristics: Breadth
- Understanding Network Characteristics: Strength
- Understanding Network Characteristics: Density
- Understanding Network Characteristics: Centrality and Structural Holes
- Principles of Developing Networks
1
Readings
- Essential Reading: Pre-work: Network Assessment Exercise
Politics and Leading Upwards
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4
Videos
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4
Readings
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Politics and Leading Upwards
- Graded Quiz: Power, Politics, and Leading Upwards
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Discussions
- Importance of Power and Politics in Organizations
4
Videos
- Politics: Using Power to Influence Others
- Politics: Negative or Positive
- Leading Upwards and Paradigms of Human Interactions
- Leading Upwards: Art of Working with Bosses
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Readings
- Essential Readings: Relational Power: The Importance of Networking in Organizations
- Essential Readings: Leading Upwards: Art of Working Effectively with Bosses
- Recommended Books: Power, Politics, and Leading Upward
- Reference Watch: The Pursuit of Happiness
Navigating Ethical Dilemmas
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6
Videos
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Navigating Ethical Dilemmas
6
Videos
- Ethical Dilemmas: What are they?
- Ethics and Morals: Understanding the Difference
- Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Ethical Purpose
- Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Ethical Principles
- Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Pragmatism
- Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: Principled Pragmatism
Leadership and Culture
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5
Videos
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1
Readings
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Leadership and Culture
5
Videos
- Understanding Organizational Culture
- Leadership and Organizational Culture
- LEAP Organizational Culture: Learning Mindset and Enjoyment
- LEAP Organizational Culture: Autonomy and Performance
- Cultural Transformation: TREAT for LEAP
1
Readings
- Essential Reading: Cultural Transformation at Microsoft
Leadership and Change Management
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4
Videos
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7
Readings
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Leadership and Change Management
- Graded Quiz: Ethics, Culture, and Change Management
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Discussions
- Means and the Ends
4
Videos
- Challenges of Change Management
- Essentials of Change Management: Leadership
- Essentials of Change Management: Coalition
- Essentials of Change Management: Culture
7
Readings
- Essential Reading: Leadership and Organizational Culture: Two Sides of a Coin
- Essential Reading: L-E-A-P: Rethinking Organizational Culture for New-Age Organizations
- Essential Reading: How Satya Nadella Brought a Growth Mindset to Microsoft
- Essential Reading: Reinventing Microsoft - 4 Cultural Hacks by Satya Nadella
- Recommended Reading: Case Study: Satya Nadella at Microsoft
- Recommended Readings: Ethics, Culture, and Change Management
- Reference Watch: Invictus
Understanding the Mahabharata and its Characters
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6
Videos
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Understanding the Mahabharata and its Characters
6
Videos
- Mahabharata: The Origin
- Mahabharata: Plot and the Conflict
- Mahabharata Characters: Bhishma - The Grandsire
- Mahabharata Characters: The Kauravas
- Mahabharata Characters: The Pandavas
- Mahabharata’s Other Characters: Karna, Dronacharya, and Ashvatthama
Lessons from the Mahabharata: Individual and Organisational Leadership
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4
Videos
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Lessons from the Mahabharata: Individual and Organisational Leadership
4
Videos
- Karna: The Quest for Identity
- Ashwatthama: Mindfulness and Emotional Stability
- Kunti: Vision, Values, and Positive Leader Behaviors
- Shakuni: Power, Politics, and Stratagem
Lessons from the Mahabharata: Resolving Paradoxes and Ethical Dilemmas
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5
Videos
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2
Readings
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1
Discussion
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2
Assignment
2
Assignment
- Lessons from the Mahabharata: Resolving Paradoxes and Ethical Dilemmas
- Graded Quiz: Leadership and Ancient Indian Wisdom: Lessons from the Mahabharata
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Discussions
- Leadership and Ancient Indian Wisdom
5
Videos
- Bhishma: Life and Deeds
- Bhishma: Resolving Paradoxes
- Krishna: Life and Deeds
- Krishna: Principled Pragmatism
- The Mahabharata Code: The Leadership Triangle
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Readings
- Essential Reading: Demystifying Leadership: Unveiling the Mahabharata Code
- Reference Watch: Mahabharata
Peer Review Assignment
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1
PeerReview
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Peer Review
- Leadership Lessons from the Life of a Legend or a Hero
Course Wrap-up Video
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1
Videos
1
Videos
- Course Wrap-up
Auto Summary
Enhance your leadership abilities with this foundational course in Business & Management. Guided by Coursera, it delves into the practice of leadership, emphasizing self-discovery and the development of key skills such as influence, decision-making, and change management. Drawing from diverse fields like philosophy and psychology, this beginner course is ideal for professionals across various backgrounds. With a duration of 2760 minutes, it offers both Starter and Professional subscription options to fit your needs.
Vishal Gupta