Become an adaptable leader, ready to face the challenges of the disrupted workplace. This Specialization will equip you with the skills to lead and navigate the ever-changing global environment we now work in. Through four themed courses you will: learn how to motivate staff with meaningful work (Become a Meaning Maker); better enable your organization to deliver on its strategic objectives (Know Your Organisation); harness your team’s diversity and use teamwork to innovate and increase your organization’s output (Know Your People), and strengthen your personal leadership skills (Adapt Your Leadership Style).
Leading: Human Resource Management and Leadership Specialization
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Leading: Human Resource Management and Leadership Specialization
Get ready for the Future of Work. Leading people and organisations to adapt, compete and succeed in a complex, global environment.
Instructors: Associate Professor Edward Wray-Bliss
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.9
(2,412 reviews)
Intermediate level
Some related experience required
3 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Analyse how to motivate staff with meaningful work
Understand how to enable your organisation to deliver on its strategic objectives
Examine the ways you can harness your team’s diversity and use teamwork to innovate and increase your organisation’s output
Evaluate leadership theories and develop your personal leadership skills
Overview
Skills you'll gain
- Human Resource Strategy
- People Management
- Branding
- Team Building
- Brand Management
- People Development
- Leadership and Management
- Organizational Strategy
- Employee Engagement
- Business Leadership
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Leadership Development
- Team Management
- Organizational Leadership
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Leadership
- Strategic Thinking
- Organizational Structure
- Team Leadership
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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Specialization - 4 course series
What you'll learn
Define the key organisational capabilities required for a firm’s positioning strategy as the anchoring point for leading an organisation
Assess the degree of alignment between key capabilities and organisational architecture (culture, structure, people practices, systems)
Identify the organisational misalignment issues that a leader should prioritize and focus their change plan on
Develop and present concrete, suitable, and feasible organisational change recommendations that can resolve organisational misalignment issues
Skills you'll gain
Category: Organizational Strategy
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Risk Management
Category: Human Resource Strategy
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Workforce Planning
Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Category: Report Writing
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Business Strategy
What you'll learn
Explain how individuals may differ across a range of attributes including their personality, values, perceptions, and emotions
Analyse the implications of workplace diversity, including challenges and potential benefits
Explain the motivational characteristics of work and apply these to job design
Analyze the role of team dynamics and composition in the team performance
Skills you'll gain
Category: Cultural Diversity
Category: Team Management
Category: Conflict Management
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Employee Engagement
Category: Decision Making
Category: People Management
Category: Innovation
Category: Team Building
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Communication
Category: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Category: People Development
Category: Leadership
Category: Psychology
What you'll learn
Critically evaluate the similarities and differences between traditional and contemporary theories of leadership
Examine the complexities and challenges of day-to-day organisational life might require agile shifts between different leadership styles
Analyse how post-industrial forms of participative and self-organising leadership might enable or disable effective cross-functional teamwork
Skills you'll gain
Category: Leadership
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Leadership Development
Category: Communication
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Adaptability
Category: Influencing
Category: Organizational Change
Category: Self-Awareness
Category: Business Leadership
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Staff Management
Category: Strategic Leadership
What you'll learn
Evaluate approaches to influencing and creating meaning at work
Evaluate and apply approaches to meaning making that play a role in aligning employee buy-in of organisational narratives
Evaluate, create and apply strategies to leverage meaning making through branding
Situate discussions of meaning making within broader social contexts and concerns.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Branding
Category: Organizational Leadership
Category: Storytelling
Category: Communication
Category: Non-Verbal Communication
Category: Employee Engagement
Category: Cultural Responsiveness
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Category: Performance Measurement
Category: Leadership
Category: Brand Management
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Frequently asked questions
No, but this Coursera Specialization provides a taster of the Global MBA learning experience, featuring high-quality video lectures, practice quizzes and discussion forums.
For the full graduate experience and access to exclusive content such as interviews with industry leaders, live webinars, expert panel discussions, faculty-graded assessments and AACSB-approved postgraduate qualification you should consider enrolling in Macquarie University’s Global MBA today!
Visit the Macquarie University's Global MBA degree page for more information.
There are four courses in this Specialization. Each course contains six modules and we estimate about 6-5 hours learner time on task per module. The courses are self-paced and time to complete can vary from learner to learner depending on their preferred pace.
No you do not need to take the courses in a specific order. What order you take the courses is entirely up to you!
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