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About the Course

This course has been designed to help leaders, like you, learn how to effectively navigate the challenges of significant organizational disruptions. As a participant in this course, you’ll discover why an understanding of various stakeholder perspectives can inform and dramatically improve a leader’s response to events that threaten an organization’s very survival. This course is also about understanding and developing individual and organizational resilience—the ability to anticipate potential threats; to cope effectively with adverse events when they occur; and to adapt to changing conditions, ensuring a viable path forward for yourself, your team, and your organization. These topics are particularly relevant in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Many course examples will reference lessons leaders around the world have learned during this far-reaching healthcare crisis. During the eight course modules, which are distributed over four weeks, participants will explore topics such as: Why the VUCA world is making crises more common; Characteristics of resilient organizations and ways to increase resilience; Stakeholder value propositions and how these are threatened during a crisis; Organizing frameworks for estimating the types of crises an organization might encounter; the Unique and challenging nature of the crisis environment; the Fundamentals of crisis leadership; and Building a plan to prepare yourself, your team, and your organization for your next major crisis—which, in today’s world, is not so much an “if”, as a “when”. Professor Mike Barger, your faculty member for this course, has served as a TOPGUN instructor in the United States Navy and as a founder and executive at JetBlue Airways. His professional experience has helped him learn a great deal about crisis leadership and to gain a true sense of what it means to be resilient. Throughout the course, Professor Barger will draw upon many practical examples that will make the content of this course easy to appreciate, understand, and translate into practical lessons that you will be able to apply immediately at your organization. Crisis leadership is a topic that’s exciting, daunting, and almost impossible to master. With some time and effort over the four weeks of the course, however, you can develop an exceptional set of crisis-leadership tools that will serve you well throughout your professional career....

Top reviews

SG

Oct 15, 2020

This course exceeded all of my expectations and was extremely valuable, even after a decade and a half of crisis communications work. I would recommend it to anyone interested in the topic.

RL

Jun 9, 2021

Great course to prepare the company before Time of Crisis arrives. The contents of the course and experiences shared applied in real life situations are very enlightening and educative.

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By Nathanael T G

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Nov 5, 2021

This is a wonderful course that teaches a multitude of knowledge in regards to crisis management

By Mannir M (

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Jan 3, 2021

Very Brilliant instructor. I highly recommend this course for leaders and student of leadership

By George G

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Feb 28, 2023

Great content and great instruction. Very engaging and applicable to any industry or business.

By Nitish S

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Sep 17, 2021

First course with Coursera, very detailed course and would take more with this professor

By Parth C

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Dec 9, 2021

leadership gives opprtunity to express your strengths and ability to achieves goals

By Hürcan T P

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Dec 26, 2020

armed with leadership skills for a current crisis or posible future crisis

By Hein K

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Nov 7, 2021

Very good and user friendly. My first time working with Coursera.

Thanks

By Vasantha K G

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Dec 4, 2020

Excellent course. Content very well structured and thought provoking.

By Arun K R

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Jan 3, 2022

Great instructor led course & a definite insight through learning

By Shashank T

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Nov 27, 2020

Very in-depth course with exercises, examples and other resources

By MUSTAFA A E

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Jan 23, 2021

Thank you from the heart

It was a very, very wonderful course

By Kedar R M

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Oct 29, 2024

Insightful to navigate to deal with the situation in crisis.

By Haziq M A W

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Dec 12, 2020

such a great course. recommended for all leaders to take it

By Fernanda P

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May 16, 2021

very well presented material, extremely important course

By Luís E R

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Jul 11, 2021

Extraordinary and valuable tools for crisis leadership.

By Tom J

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Sep 27, 2020

I'm going to encourage my team to take this course.

By Florian S

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Nov 1, 2023

Great course with immediate application value.

By Elan

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Dec 25, 2021

It was an engaging and brilliant course.

By Tammy P *

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Mar 14, 2022

Great instructor and course materials

By Karsten M

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Oct 26, 2020

very engaging and thought-provoking

By Yakub M I

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Apr 25, 2022

Full of beneficial knowledge.

By Melisa G F

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Sep 10, 2022

better than what I expected

By Terence B

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Jul 20, 2021

interesting course material

By Thunpicha S

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Feb 13, 2022

I really love this coursse

By Nabakumar B

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Jan 29, 2022

bestBest in the world