Leadership and Strategic Management Courses:

 

1. Building High Performance Virtual Teams

Course Description

Virtual teams present a unique set of challenges, but also a unique set of opportunities. You may be a team leader or team member: in this course we will review some common challenges and opportunities that face virtual teams and some suggested strategies for addressing those challenges and capitalizing on the opportunities. You will leave this course with the skills and tools necessary to develop a plan for addressing challenges and opportunities on your own virtual and remote teams.

What You'll Learn

• Assess the key opportunities and challenges facing your virtual team and reflect on how they have affected your team's performance

• Perform diagnostics so that you can identify the area that's most challenging for your team

• Design an intervention for your team so that you can address structural or coaching challenges

Target Audience

• Leaders and executives in any industry who are leading or launching remote project teams in an organization

• Individual contributors to virtual or remote teams who aspire to a leadership role

• Consultants who are brought in to support a project-based team remotely or virtually

Applies Towards the Following Certificates: Leading Virtual Teams

Course Length:  2 weeks

Course Fee: $769 Now Offered at $480

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2. Creating Advantage through Entrepreneurial Thinking

Course Description

Entrepreneurship has become more than just a short-term initiative, becoming an essential component of any successful organization. In this course, students will learn to identify, assess, and implement new business opportunities within established organizations to drive and maintain competitive advantage. After completing this course, students will not only be able to formulate business models and develop processes to maximize entrepreneurial abilities, but also increase the overall entrepreneurial spirit of their organizations.

What You'll Learn

• Cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset in how you approach new business opportunities within an existing firm

• Assemble the necessary tangible and intangible resources for realizing new opportunities

• Establish organizational processes and systems that balance risk and rewards of new ideas to maximize the potential for success

• Scale and sustain new entrepreneurial opportunities in order to drive competitive advantage

Target Audience

• Mid-level professionals looking to improve and expand their influence and move into leadership roles

• Managers and leaders handling resource investments, process improvements, or priority changes

• C-level executives and VPs interested in building an innovation culture and competitive advantage

• Consultants

• Analysts

Applies Towards the Following Certificates: Intrapreneurship

Course Length:  2 weeks

Course Fee: $769 Now Offered at $480

 

3. Decision Making and Accountability

Course Description

In this course, you will take steps to create a more focused and results-driven virtual team that reaches and executes smart decisions. You will examine common decision traps and biases that teams fall into to try to avoid them. Finally, you will explore strategies for building accountability into decisions so you can more effectively get teams to do what they say they will do.

What You'll Learn

• Develop a plan for considering more options when making a decision affecting your team

• Assess the biases on your team and develop an action plan for addressing the bias that's most negatively impacting decision-making on your team

• Assess the impact of group anomalies on your team and develop a plan to address those issues

Target Audience

• Leaders and executives in any industry who are leading or launching remote project teams in an organization

• Individual contributors to virtual or remote teams who aspire to a leadership role

• Consultants who are brought in to support a project-based team remotely or virtually

Applies Towards the Following Certificates: Leading Virtual Teams

Course Length:  2 weeks

Course Fee: $769 Now Offered at $480

 

4. Diversity and Cross Cultural Teams

Course Description

Virtual teams are often also multicultural teams, which brings opportunities but also challenges that can easily derail teams. You will identify those opportunities and challenges and explore structural strategies for managing cultural issues. You will also examine recommended best practices for improving a team’s cultural intelligence. A heightened cultural understanding will give team members and leaders the opportunity to fully capitalize on your team’s opportunities.

What You'll Learn

• Assess a cultural or diversity issue facing your team and come up with a plan to address it

• Examine how cultural dimensions affect your team and come up with plan to address any issues that might arise

• Assess the cultural intelligence of your team and come up with a plan to improve it

Target Audience

• Leaders and executives in any industry who are leading or launching remote project teams in an organization

• Individual contributors to virtual or remote teams who aspire to a leadership role

• Consultants who are brought in to support a project-based team remotely or virtually

Applies Towards the Following Certificates: Leading Virtual Teams

Course Length:  2 weeks

Course Fee: $769 Now Offered at $480

 

5. Launching Virtual Team Projects

Course Description

In this course, you will consider how well your team members understand the team’s mission and the members’ roles. You will explore strategies for building trust, encouraging engagement, and establishing commitment on your teams so they can reach your goals and avoid later remedial action. The strategies developed in this course will allow individuals setting up teams as well as those who have well-established teams improve their functionality and success.

What You'll Learn

• Draft a contract that lays out a vision for your team and lays out rules for how it will operate

• Develop and assess rituals to help build and enhance trust on your team

• Assess the psychological safety of your team and then draft a plan to address any issues that arise

Target Audience

• Leaders and executives in any industry who are leading or launching remote project teams in an organization

• Individual contributors to virtual or remote teams who aspire to a leadership role

• Consultants who are brought in to support a project-based team remotely or virtually

Applies Towards the Following Certificates: Leading Virtual Teams

Course Length:  2 weeks

Course Fee: $769 Now Offered at $480

 

6. Virtual Communication, Constructive Conflict and Collaboration

Course Description

Conflict on a team is unavoidable and necessary. In this course, you will explore strategies to encourage constructive conflict and to discourage destructive conflict. You will explore recommended negotiation techniques for managing conflict. You will then identify threats to communication, explore strategies to overcome those threats, and use those strategies productively on your virtual teams. One of the biggest challenges of a virtual team is figuring out who has what information and how to get it. You will identify strategies to manage information to help make decisions. By the end of this course you will have a toolbox of tips and strategies for maximizing the team’s communication.

What You'll Learn

• Assess and rate the type of conflict on your virtual team and reflect on ways to encourage positive and prevent negative conflict

• Use a questioning technique to explore the root causes of a conflict facing your team and come up with a plan to fix it

• Use negotiation to try to resolve an issue facing your team

Target Audience

• Leaders and executives in any industry who are leading or launching remote project teams in an organization

• Individual contributors to virtual or remote teams who aspire to a leadership role

• Consultants who are brought in to support a project-based team remotely or virtually

Applies Towards the Following Certificates: Leading Virtual Teams

Course Length:  2 weeks

Course Fee: $769 Now Offered at $480

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