Personal Leadership Development Planning and Leading High Performing Teams (Coursera)

Offered by Rice University,
Personal Leadership Development Planning and Leading High Performing Teams (Coursera)

An actionable leadership improvement plan enables you to leverage strengths and close the gaps on weaknesses. In this course, you will build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals within the next two years. It lays the foundation for an evergreen process of selection and prioritization of skills, and action planning for sustained leadership development.

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Course 3 of 3 in the Leadership Development for Engineers Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Module 0 - Welcome
Module 1 - Leadership Development Plan

WEEK 2
Module 2 - Pro-active Performance Improvement and Goal Setting

WEEK 3
Module 3 - Launching Creative Project Teams
Leadership Development Plan Writing Assignment

WEEK 4
Module 4 - Creating a Motivating Team Environment

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