Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization
Enhance leadership and business skills for immediate impact. Practice everyday leadership, manage people, learn and apply concepts and techniques to effectively manage organizations through organizational design, and formulate and implement strategy.
Through the courses in this specialization, you will learn the fundamentals to effectively lead people and teams, manage organizations as well as tools to analyze business situations and develop strategies. The Specialization covers the strategic, human resource, and organizational foundations for creating and capturing value for sustainable competitive advantage – including how to manage people and organizations, analyze the competition, and develop strategies both within a business and across a portfolio of businesses.
The capstone is a strategic leadership and management plan where you’ll apply what you will learn to an actual business situation with participation by one or more focal companies. The deliverable will be designed to create value from the perspective of potential employers while achieving pedagogical and experiential goals for learners.
This Specialization is part of the University of Illinois Masters of Business Administration degree program, the iMBA. Learn more about the admission into the program here and how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into the program. You can also start with for-credit courses within the Illinois iMBA degree program.
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COURSE 1
Foundations of Everyday Leadership
Upcoming session: Nov 5
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 4-6 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
In this course you will learn about the “head and heart” of everyday leadership, individual decision making, group decision making, and managing motivation. The objectives are to understand why and how leadership skills are so
COURSE 2
Applications of Everyday Leadership
Upcoming session: Nov 5
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 5-7 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
This course covers the following topics: negotiation, feedback and coaching, conflict management, and leading change. The objectives are to learn how to use leadership skills to work more effectively with others, how to use leadership skills to
COURSE 3
Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organizational Structure
Current session: Oct 29
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
In this course you will understand how firms are organized, what factors must be taken into account in making critical design decisions, and what role managers play in making these choices. In order to answer these questions, we will first develop a
COURSE 4
Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution
Upcoming session: Nov 7
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 4-6 hours/week
Subtitles
English
About the Course
In this course you will build a practical framework to understand the critical linkages between organization design and the creation of economic value through execution. We will focus on four critical linkages: 1. How organizational growth and
COURSE 5
Business Strategy
Upcoming session: Nov 5
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 4-6 hours/week
Subtitles
English, Korean
About the Course
In this course you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value, and how it is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand value creation and capture, and learn the tools to analyze both
COURSE 6
Corporate Strategy
Upcoming session: Nov 5
Commitment
4 weeks of study, 5-7 hours/week
Subtitles
English, Korean
About the Course
In this course you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value, and how it is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand economic value creation and value appropriation, and learn the
COURSE 7
Strategic Leadership and Management Capstone
Upcoming session: Dec 31
Subtitles
English
About the Capstone Project
The capstone is a strategic leadership and management plan where you’ll apply what you will learn to an actual business situation with participation by one or more focal companies. The deliverable will be designed to create value from the perspe
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Jeff Flesher
PhD
Joe Mahoney
Professor of Business Administration
Huseyin Leblebici
Professor of Business Administration
Gregory Northcraft
Professor of Business Administration and Harry J. Gray Professor of Executive Leadership
Deepak Somaya
Professor of Business Administration
Jeffrey Loewenstein
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
Jack Goncalo
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