Master of Psychology: 2025 Degree Guide
January 6, 2025
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Become the leader you aspire to be. Launch yourself forward in your leadership career.
Instructors: Dr Nigel Spencer
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At least five years professional experience. Starting to face leadership issues as they manage teams, customers and clients more regularly.
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At least five years professional experience. Starting to face leadership issues as they manage teams, customers and clients more regularly.
To use frameworks and models to make sense of your current work context.
The importance of self awareness in the leader.
To go beyond managing into a proactive stance that will take your organisation forward.
How to lead your boss.
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This specialisation will provide you with a holistic set of tools, skills and frameworks to enable you to step up and lead more effectively. You will develop your own leadership identity, as you explore what it means to lead and learn ways to better manage your time.
During this specialisation, you will:
– Learn key techniques for overcoming imposter syndrome, managing high performance teams, and having difficult but important conversations.
– Learn how to give and receive feedback, and develop your coaching skills, as you enhance your ability to energise yourself and motivate others.
– Apply your learning to your professional practices, growing as a leader through deep self-reflection.
By the end of this Specialisation, you will have gained greater insights into yourself, and your team, and built key skills, including vital prioritisation and communication skills, which will help you excel as a leader.
Applied Learning Project
Each course will contain hand-on projects, which consist of both practical and reflective tasks that ask learners to apply the theories discussed to their own professional context and then reflect on the skills they are trying to master. These project assignments will provide learners with an opportunity to embed methods and approaches, which will be invaluable as they enhance their leadership skills, as these techniques can be reused as a regular part of their personal and professional development, far beyond the bounds of this Specialisation.
To understand what leadership is, how to navigate the context they lead within, and how to manage their time as a leader.
To identify current key stakeholders and their relative importance
The difference between managing and leading and how these conflate in today's professional environment
The essence of credibility
How to increase your emotional intelligence as a leader, manage conflict, and how to increase your influence and authority.
How to lead teams, coach and develop others, and build team culture.
In this course, you will look at how you can effectively manage stakeholders and industry/organisational politics, whilst successfully mobilising people. You will:
– Consider how to build momentum and how to work across organisational, sectoral and country cultures. – Explore how you can align your mission with the organisation’s purpose and manage the politics to influence the organisation. – Look at how to lead in a matrix/complex structure as well as how to make your changes real. This course is aimed at leaders and managers who have five to six years experience and who are beginning to manage teams, customers and clients more regularly or more directly. Learners will likely have a technical or professional early career but as they are progressing in their careers, they are having to start grappling with the issues of team and organisational leadership. By the end of this course, you will be able to: – Work across organisational boundaries and engage with a wider group of stakeholders. – Navigate the realpolitik of their wider organisation and understand the importance of engaging with the political dynamic. – Extend and leverage your networks to be better positioned for the next phase of your career. – Identify levers for change and how best to utilise these in order to increase the possibility that your initiatives and programmes will be adopted.
Queen Mary University of London is a leading research-intensive university with a difference – one that opens the doors of opportunity to anyone with the potential to succeed. Ranked 117 in the world, the University has over 28000 students and 4400 members of staff. We are a truly global university: over 160 nationalities are represented on our 5 campuses in London, and we also have a presence in Malta, Paris, Athens, Singapore and China. The reach of our education is extended still further through our online provision.
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This Specialization doesn't carry university credit, but some universities may choose to accept Specialization Certificates for credit. Check with your institution to learn more.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
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Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
Yes. In select learning programs, you can apply for financial aid or a scholarship if you can’t afford the enrollment fee. If fin aid or scholarship is available for your learning program selection, you’ll find a link to apply on the description page.
When you enroll in the course, you get access to all of the courses in the Specialization, and you earn a certificate when you complete the work. If you only want to read and view the course content, you can audit the course for free. If you cannot afford the fee, you can apply for financial aid.
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