University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization

Leadership and Business Skill for Immediate Impact. Apply practical strategies to becoming an effective organizational leader.

Jeff Flesher
Joe Mahoney
Deepak Somaya

Instructors: Jeff Flesher

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2 months
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
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(6,654 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
2 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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Specialization - 7 course series

Leading Teams: Developing as a Leader

Course 114 hours4.8 (6,120 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Define leadership in a way that facilitates personal leadership growth,.

  • Discover the role of understanding yourself to grow as a leader,.

  • Explore interpersonal interactions that are core to effective leadership.

  • Utilize a framework to further your own leadership development.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Decision Making
Category: Entrepreneurship
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Research and Design
Category: Leadership Development
Category: People Development

Leading Teams: Building Effective Team Cultures

Course 213 hours4.8 (2,324 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Articulate a conceptual understanding of team culture and why it matters for team success.

  • Identify and evaluate elements of psychological safety and the correlation to team performance.

  • Identify and evaluate ways to engage team members to work collaboratively to solve problems.

  • Create a practice for crafting cultures of problem solving to encourage teams to learn and grow with the changing dynamics of business needs.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Conflict Management
Category: Culture
Category: Decision Making
Category: Influencing
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Negotiation
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Strategy
Category: Strategy and Operations
Category: Change Management

Designing the Organization

Course 313 hours4.7 (1,674 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Identify and explain many of the common organizational design challenges faced by organizations

  • Apply theory and principles to more effectively deal with these organizational design challenges in your own professional life

  • Analyze the effectiveness of organizational design choices in various organizations

  • Make organizational design recommendations to increase organizational effectiveness

Skills you'll gain

Category: Decision Making
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Organizational Development
Category: Strategy
Category: Strategy and Operations
Category: Leadership Development

Managing the Organization

Course 412 hours4.7 (1,434 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Identify and explain common challenges faced by managers in organizations.

  • Apply theory and principles to become a more effective manager in your own professional life.

  • Analyze the effectiveness of managerial decisions in various organizations.

  • Make managerial recommendations to increase organizational effectiveness.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Business Psychology
Category: Entrepreneurship
Category: Change Management
Category: Culture
Category: Decision Making
Category: Human Resources
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Organizational Development
Category: Strategy and Operations
Category: People Analytics
Category: Strategic Thinking

Business Strategy

Course 518 hours4.8 (1,932 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Explain how different functions and activities fit together in a firm and how they align with the environment to create overall business performance.

  • Describe and employ important strategic management tools and frameworks for business models.

  • Apply strategic management tools and frameworks to business contexts in an appropriate manner to arrive at insights for strategic decision making.

  • Develop a coherent and actionable strategic plan by critically analyzing and processing abundant and diverse business and industry information.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Entrepreneurship
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Marketing
Category: Sales
Category: Strategy
Category: Strategy and Operations

Corporate Strategy

Course 610 hours4.7 (1,119 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Explain how corporations create and capture value as multi-business enterprises.

  • Analyze complex strategic business situations and formulate coherent corporate strategies.

  • Use tools and frameworks to make choices regarding corporate scope, corporate transactions and global strategy.

  • Apply strategic analysis to corporate governance and stakeholder management for long run strategic success.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Strategy
Category: Strategy and Operations
Category: Business Analysis

Strategic Leadership and Management Capstone

Course 710 hours4.7 (302 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Demonstrate knowledge of concepts, theories, and approaches learned in Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization courses.

  • Apply Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization course related tools, techniques, and approaches to realistic business situations.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Analysis
Category: Change Management
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Strategy
Category: Strategy and Operations
Category: Human Resources
Category: People Development
Category: Planning

Instructors

Jeff Flesher
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9 Courses31,877 learners
Joe Mahoney
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 Course50,163 learners
Deepak Somaya
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
7 Courses100,925 learners

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This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹

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