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Let’s Get Principled: Values, Culture & Intelligent Disobedience! (edX)

Offered by University of Maryland, College Park, University System of Maryland - USM, USMx, UMD,
Let’s Get Principled: Values, Culture & Intelligent Disobedience! (edX)

Learn about values and decision-making, visioning the future, how values create culture, and how to be intelligently disobedient when the time comes. Remember: know yourself, know others; lead yourself, lead others.

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Great leaders, create great culture, which yields great work: G3. Great leadership requires the ability to set inspiring visions, make critical decisions and establish a positive workplace culture.
Building on G3., you will learn about values and decision-making, visioning the future, how values create culture , and how to be intelligently disobedient when the time comes. Remember: know yourself, know others; lead yourself, lead others.
This course will prepare you to become the leader you hope to be by focusing deeply on defining your personal values, setting your personal vision statement for you as a leader, understanding the role values play in every work decision, and how to work with competing values on the big decisions. Purpose motivates.
This certificate offers an extraordinary opportunity to spend some quality time with yourself to assess your current level of soft skills, clearly define your core self, and build soft skills which are essential to professional, not to mention life, success
This course is the sixth and last in a series of leadership courses.
This course is part of the Re-Imagining Leadership Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

  • What are values
  • Why do values matter
  • What is culture
  • Why does culture matter
  • How values inform culture
  • How effective leaders build culture
  • What is intelligent disobedience
  • Why does it matter
  • How to resolve competing values situations
  • How to be intelligently disobedience when necessary

Syllabus

Week 1 Introduction to Course

  • Values & Culture Introduced
  • Building Your Values Portfolio Introduced
  • Intelligent Disobedience Introduced
  • The Business Case for Values & Culture
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to What are Values?

Week 2 What are Values?

  • Introduction to What are Values?
  • Values Defined
  • Why Values Matter
  • Kohlberg Model of Values Development
  • Putting It All Together: Values, Happiness & Work and Character Strengths
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to What is Culture?

Week 3 What is Culture?

  • Introduction
  • What is Culture?
  • Why Culture Matters
  • Values & Culture & Happiness at Work
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to Values & Culture Applied

Week 4 Values & Culture Applied

  • Introduction
  • Who’s in Your Moral Circle?
  • Is This the Right Job for You?
  • How Culture is Created
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to Intelligent Disobedience

Week 5 Intelligent Disobedience

  • Introduction
  • What is Intelligent Disobedience?
  • Why Does It Matter?
  • What If I Lose My Job?
  • How & When Should I Do It?
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to Re-Imagining Leadership, Part II
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