How to identify the key perspectives of stakeholders
Individual Course
Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles
Course Length
4 weeks
2-3 hours a week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Kennedy School
Enroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 209
Enroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 209
Harvard faculty teach the strategies you need to lead in a changing world and show you how to mobilize communities to meet the challenges of our time.
In this introductory course, you will explore strategies for leading in a changing world where adaptive pressures will continue to challenge all of us. You will discover new ways to approach complex organizational systems and take thoughtful action on the work we all face ahead. Most importantly, you will reflect on how to move forward on the leadership challenges you care about most.
How to build and renew trust relationships
How to approach conflict and implement personal strategies for surviving and thriving amidst change
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- Do it on your own time
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Your Instructor
Ronald Heifetz
King Hussein Bin Talal Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School
Ronald Heifetz is among the world’s foremost authorities on the practice and teaching of leadership. He speaks extensively and advises heads of governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations across the globe. In 2016, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia highlighted Heifetz’s advice in his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture.
Professional Certificate Series
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Ways to take this course
Audit or Pursue a Verified Certificate
A Verified Certificate costs $209 and provides unlimited access to full course materials, activities, tests, and forums. At the end of the course, learners who earn a passing grade can receive a certificate.
Alternatively, learners can Audit the course for free and have access to select course material, activities, tests, and forums. Please note that this track does not offer a certificate for learners who earn a passing grade.
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