Free Courses: Practicing Leadership – Foundational Principles
The crises of our time generate enormous adaptive challenges for our families, organizations, and communities. The need for leadership that can mobilize people to meet these challenges and improve lives is critical.
In this introductory course, you will explore strategies for leadership in a changing world where adaptive pressures will continue to challenge us all. You will discover new ways to deal with complex regulatory systems and take thoughtful action on the work we all face in the future. Most importantly, you will think about how to proceed with the leadership challenges you care about most.
The course is offered by Harvard University, a private research university in Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 and named after its first benefactor, the clergyman John Harvard, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and among the most famous in the world.
In this course, you will learn the following:
- How to identify and solve complex challenges.
- How to understand the role of formal and informal authority.
- How to identify the key perspectives of stakeholders.
- How to build and renew trusting relationships.
- How to deal with conflict.
- How to implement personal strategies to survive and thrive amid change.
Course topics:
- Leadership.
- Professional and professional development.
Platform:
The course is available on the edX platform
edX is an American open online course (MOOC) resource created by Harvard University and MIT. It hosts online undergraduate-level courses in a wide range of global majors and programs, including some for free.
It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform. edX is a non-profit organization operating on a free and open source software platform
More than 150 universities and schools use the edX platform to display their educational and training courses.
edX has approximately 33 million students taking over 3,000 online courses. It also has over 6000 coaches on the platform with 196 countries represented worldwide.
