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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Leadership Skills by IIMA - IIM Ahmedabad

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About the Course

Welcome to the Leadership Skills course! In our increasingly complex world, understanding the practice of leadership is critical. In simpler words, leadership is the practice of influencing people to meet the challenges that will enable them to achieve important individual and organizational goals. This course provides a foundation for leadership practice and aims to take you on a journey of self-discovery. You will also gain insight into building inner stability and developing your leadership skills. This is a beginner course designed for professionals from diverse work backgrounds. The course helps you lean on your experiences and strengthen your capacity to lead across boundaries, from any political or organizational position, with or without authority. The course will also enable you to learn important leadership skills, clarifying the relationships among key concepts such as definitions of leadership, self-management, authority, power, influence, politics, negotiations, change management, decision-making, and various leadership styles. This knowledge will provide you with a practical and coherent theoretical framework for applying and exercising leadership. Lastly, the course explores the challenge of managing the inevitable personal stresses and dangers of leading a team. The course draws from business management, philosophy, spirituality, history, literature, sports, communications, and psychology. To succeed in this course, you should have experience or a basic understanding of working in organizations....

Top reviews

AH

Sep 17, 2023

Very nicely briefed by Prof. Vishal Gupta. This course enhances the skills of individuals to be more effective at their organisational endeavours and after completing this one comes out stronger.

MG

Jun 19, 2023

very good course. covered all aspects of Leadership Skills and the instructor Dr. Vishal Gupta is a great faculty. His method of presentation and explaining each topic is very clear and specific.

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By Sailesh K

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Oct 29, 2024

Thanks to Vishal Gupta Sir for bringing a very interesting course . Sir, your teaching style and skills are exemplary and top-notch, loved this course and want to go through the content again and again. Great one.

By Sasti K

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Feb 23, 2024

An amazing course which gives a standard framework to begin your leadership journey. This course will be a lifelong reference. A must for beginners or those who have not had an formal education on leadership yet.

By Sukanya C

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Nov 17, 2023

Superb course. The instructor made the content so easy to understand with practical examples and every quiz to understand the learning and retention curve was very good. One can definitely gain a lot from this.

By Amit A

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Aug 13, 2023

Excellent learning experience. Vishal's explanation was very good and easy to follow. The reading material, videos, and sample exercises helped immensely in learning the concept and applicability in our role.

By DOSHI A B

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Nov 24, 2024

A practical course for beginners and mid-level professionals, covering leadership essentials like communication, decision-making, and team management. Engaging and flexible but lacks depth in advanced topics.

By Ganesh N D

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Aug 4, 2024

Excellent course thank you Vishal Gupta Sir , for explaining all leader skill in a very simple manner , specially a like all the learning from our great epic Mahabharata a very special thank you for that.

By Praveen N

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Jun 6, 2023

Great insights was provided in to various leadership aspects and had a great time learning the same. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Dr. Vishal Gupta for arranging such an intuitive session.

By Yogesh C

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May 30, 2023

Many thanks to Prof. Vishal Gupta and IIMA for providing such a well-structured, interesting, and useful course.

Highly recommended for understanding core concepts about leading any organizational entities.

By Harpreet S

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Sep 2, 2023

Excellent course to boost the leadership skills and management leasons shared by experienced professors of IIM-A. This shall really help in carrer advancement and excel in changing needs of organisation.

By Raunak D

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Jul 12, 2023

Amazing Course and the course instructor Prof Vishal Gupta Sir taught everything in an amazing way and it will definitely help us to develop our overall leadership skills. Learnt a lot from this course.

By sokat36

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Jun 29, 2023

We can a learn better than normal offline classes. We on the on job can take the advantage of this course which will guide us and improve us our skill of leadership quality through this course. Well done

By Dr. P H M

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Jan 18, 2024

Great Course. Genuine Efforts in Preparation of Course Material. Highly Recommended. All scripts are lucidly written and in apt words to keep it simple and meaningful. Many thanks to Prof. Vishal Gupta.

By Suyog Y

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Jul 25, 2023

The leadership course I just completed was excellent. The presentation format was highly appreciated. I extend my sincere gratitude to Coursera and Mr. Gupta for their efforts in putting this together.

By Harsh

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Jul 7, 2023

This course has been excellent learning for me and will be for anyone who aspires to be a great leader one day. I will like to give a big thank you to Professor Vishal Gupta for his wonderful lectures.

By Salima C

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May 24, 2023

It teaches you that leaders are not born they're in the making. Well paced and clear on every topic. Thank you to Prof. Vishal Gupta for sharing his insights on the curriculum and making it interested.

By Garima G

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Jun 12, 2023

It was an amazing journey learning with Mr. Vishal Sir. You have been an amazing mentor, and I hope to get into IIMA to experience your live sessions and interactions.

Thank you

Garima Gopal

Student, BBA

By Himanshu S C

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Mar 14, 2024

Thank you, Professor Vishal Gupta, for being such an amazing instructor and for contributing significantly to my personal and professional development. Here's to continuous learning and growth!

By Valluri A

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Dec 18, 2024

It is a wonderful opportunity for every working professional to learn flexibly. The content and the illustrations make the learner understand tremendously. Thank you Shri Vishal Gupta Sir

By Queen S M

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Sep 9, 2023

Thank you Coursera,, thank you professor . I've learned a lot in your course Leadership Skills. I've also get interested about Indian epic. I wont' forget the lesson's from Mahabharata.

By Kapil J

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Nov 28, 2023

The course gave me understanding of Leadership mindset. I was never big on connections and Paradox resolution. Now I have not only understood but have also started to practice. Regards

By ritika j

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Jul 6, 2023

Very articulate and encompasses of wide range of dig on subject matter and emphasize on key highlights . I overwhelmed by inculcating those skills in my professional ahead career .

By Tripti S G

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Jun 19, 2024

Excellent course structure with very comprehensive and dynamic course sub modules. The approach of Prof. Gupta is very hands on. the topics covered are very contemporary and useful.

By jayanta m

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May 30, 2023

This is wonderful course for any leader who leads a corporate or any other organization. Many many thanks to Prof Vishal Sir and Coursera for giving me this opportunity to learn

By Abhi S

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Nov 25, 2023

Thank you very much Vishal gupta sir for great course with simple explanation.. Perfeclty Explicit all dimensions of this course in a very simple and understandable way.. Thanks

By Shivani R G

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Oct 25, 2023

1) simplicity 2) clarity 3) relevance are the 3 main reasons that make one understand this course. Vishal Sir's teaching style is application oriented and that is really useful