University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization

Leadership and Business Skill for Immediate Impact. Apply practical strategies to becoming an effective organizational leader.

Jeff Flesher
Joe Mahoney
Deepak Somaya

Instructors: Jeff Flesher

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Beginner level
No prior experience required
5 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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Specialization - 7 course series

What you'll learn

  • Define leadership in a way that facilitates personal leadership growth,.

  • Discover the role of understanding yourself to grow as a leader,.

  • Explore interpersonal interactions that are core to effective leadership.

  • Utilize a framework to further your own leadership development.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Priorities
Category: Business Leadership
Category: Business Strategy
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Business Planning
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Process Improvement and Optimization
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Growth Strategies
Category: Leadership
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Team Building
Category: Strategic Leadership

What you'll learn

  • Articulate a conceptual understanding of team culture and why it matters for team success.

  • Identify and evaluate elements of psychological safety and the correlation to team performance.

  • Identify and evaluate ways to engage team members to work collaboratively to solve problems.

  • Create a practice for crafting cultures of problem solving to encourage teams to learn and grow with the changing dynamics of business needs.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Organizational Change
Category: Systems Thinking
Category: Innovation
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Business Management
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Decision Making
Category: Growth Strategies
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Governance
Designing the Organization

Designing the Organization

Course 313 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify and explain many of the common organizational design challenges faced by organizations

  • Apply theory and principles to more effectively deal with these organizational design challenges in your own professional life

  • Analyze the effectiveness of organizational design choices in various organizations

  • Make organizational design recommendations to increase organizational effectiveness

Skills you'll gain

Category: Innovation
Category: Team Management
Category: Safety Culture
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Adaptability
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Employee Engagement
Category: Teamwork
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Leadership
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Creativity
Category: Team Building
Category: Growth Mindedness
Managing the Organization

Managing the Organization

Course 412 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify and explain common challenges faced by managers in organizations.

  • Apply theory and principles to become a more effective manager in your own professional life.

  • Analyze the effectiveness of managerial decisions in various organizations.

  • Make managerial recommendations to increase organizational effectiveness.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Corporate Sustainability
Category: Business Strategy
Category: International Finance
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Global Marketing
Category: New Business Development
Category: Strategic Planning
Category: Mergers & Acquisitions
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Business Strategies
Category: Strategic Partnership
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Corporate Strategy
Category: Governance
Business Strategy

Business Strategy

Course 518 hours

What you'll learn

  • Explain how different functions and activities fit together in a firm and how they align with the environment to create overall business performance.

  • Describe and employ important strategic management tools and frameworks for business models.

  • Apply strategic management tools and frameworks to business contexts in an appropriate manner to arrive at insights for strategic decision making.

  • Develop a coherent and actionable strategic plan by critically analyzing and processing abundant and diverse business and industry information.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Innovation
Category: Strategic Thinking
Category: Business Management
Category: Business Modeling
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Business Strategy
Category: Value Propositions
Category: Analysis
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Market Analysis
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Competitive Analysis
Corporate Strategy

Corporate Strategy

Course 610 hours

What you'll learn

  • Explain how corporations create and capture value as multi-business enterprises.

  • Analyze complex strategic business situations and formulate coherent corporate strategies.

  • Use tools and frameworks to make choices regarding corporate scope, corporate transactions and global strategy.

  • Apply strategic analysis to corporate governance and stakeholder management for long run strategic success.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Organizational Change
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Business Management
Category: Culture
Category: Strategic Decision-Making
Category: Decision Making
Category: Leadership
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Category: Change Management
Category: Strategic Leadership

What you'll learn

  • Demonstrate knowledge of concepts, theories, and approaches learned in Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization courses.

  • Apply Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization course related tools, techniques, and approaches to realistic business situations.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Relationship Building
Category: Business Leadership
Category: Personal Development
Category: Emotional Intelligence
Category: Initiative and Leadership
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Lifelong Learning
Category: Courage
Category: Conflict Management
Category: Trustworthiness
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Decision Making
Category: Negotiation
Category: Leadership
Category: Leadership Development
Category: self-awareness
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Growth Mindedness

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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹

 

Instructors

Jeff Flesher
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9 Courses34,449 learners
Joe Mahoney
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 Course53,750 learners
Deepak Somaya
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
7 Courses107,788 learners

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