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Leadership Out of the Box

Queen Mary University of London

This specialisation, offered by Queen Mary University of London, is designed to provide a holistic set of tools, skills, and frameworks to enable effective leadership. Through this course, you will learn key techniques for overcoming imposter syndrome, managing high-performance teams, and having difficult but important conversations. You will also develop coaching skills, enhance your ability to energize yourself and motivate others, and apply your learning to your professional practices. By the end of this specialisation, you will have gained greater insights into yourself and your team, and built key skills, including vital prioritization and communication skills, which will help you excel as a leader.

  • Learn key techniques for overcoming imposter syndrome, managing high performance teams, and having difficult but important conversations.
  • Develop coaching skills, enhance your ability to energize yourself and motivate others.
  • Apply your learning to your professional practices, growing as a leader through deep self-reflection.

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Leadership Out of the Box
Course Modules

The course is divided into four modules, covering essential aspects of leadership development, including understanding leadership, preparing for leadership, leading others, and influencing the organization.

Getting Started with Leadership

To understand what leadership is, how to navigate the context they lead within, and how to manage their time as a leader. This module also covers identifying current key stakeholders and their relative importance, the difference between managing and leading, and the essence of credibility.

Stepping Up: Preparing Yourself for Leadership

This module focuses on increasing emotional intelligence as a leader, managing conflict, and increasing influence and authority.

Stepping Up: Leading Others

Learn how to lead teams, coach and develop others, and build team culture in this module.

Influencing the Organisation

In this module, you will learn about effectively managing stakeholders and industry/organizational politics, successfully mobilizing people, and how to align your mission with the organization’s purpose and manage the politics to influence the organization. You will also explore leading in a matrix/complex structure and making changes real.

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