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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 Vijay K S

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Aug 11, 2020

Such a amazing journey, its not any ordinary course..Wonderfully explained but the length of the course is too much other than that all the materials are well organised.. Entire team has put a loot of hard work for this material :) Thanks a Ton again

By Maciej W

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Jun 26, 2022

For me, this course consists of too many academic theories. Overall after finishing it, I feel prepared for any kind of crisis.

By silent g

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Aug 9, 2020

Rooted in real life experience, this a a course which equipped me with practical tools for immediate use.

By Pablo V P

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Jan 8, 2021

Probably the best choice among the COVID19 free courses.

By Charalambos L

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Oct 14, 2020

Deep and helpful knowledge for any leader and manager

By Soontarin W

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Oct 3, 2020

High quality course. Recommend anyone to learn this.

By Payman S

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Oct 18, 2020

One of the best course that I have passed.

By Scott B

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Oct 13, 2022

Excellent Course, well structured.

By Bhuvan G

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Nov 5, 2020

Good Course.Enriching and Useful

By Kaushal M

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May 20, 2021

Very Informative Course.

By Akshara A

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Jun 23, 2021

Very informative

By CALVIN J S 1

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Sep 14, 2020

Great experience

By Deleted A

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May 31, 2021

NICE

By Aung Z P

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Jun 6, 2021

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By Immanuel A

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Mar 3, 2021

Really great content about crisis management! If I may suggest several improvements, it would be about a) the voice tone of the lecturer which I think could be more relaxed, b) adding more visuals in the videos, c) reducing the length of the sentences (simplifying) to minimize confusion and burnout.

By Saleh M A

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Feb 19, 2022

MCQ options are somewhat confusing and clumsy.

By Nidhi S

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Apr 6, 2021

When I started this course was free and now it says I have to pay. This is not acceptable. Wrong communication done by coursera.org

By anto p

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Jan 24, 2022

Wastage of time. No use for course. you will gat a certificate to show off. Thats all.