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University of Maryland, College Park

Agile Healthy and Attractive Leader Development

University of Maryland, College Park via Coursera

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Explore how to develop leaders who help organizations become agile, healthy, and attractive. Connect leadership capability with organizational performance, lasting systems, and measurable value. You’ll examine problem-led leadership alongside situational, servant, transformational, and adaptive leadership. Discover how psychological safety, systems thinking, and stakeholder engagement help leaders challenge assumptions, navigate complex and wicked problems, and adapt their approach as conditions change. The course also explores how to design leadership development that translates into workplace practice. Using the high-performance learning journey, backward planning, and the return-on-investment framework, you’ll connect development to business needs, create opportunities for practice and reinforcement, and evaluate results. Finally, you’ll connect individual leadership with organizational capability through open book management, modular capabilities, internal alignment, and disciplined execution. You’ll also explore how AI-supported simulations and personalized feedback can enhance leadership development without replacing the work of leading. Designed for current and aspiring leaders, managers, and professionals responsible for developing leadership talent, this course provides a practical framework for building leadership capability—and an organization’s capacity to keep renewing itself.

Syllabus

  • Welcome to Agile Healthy and Attractive Leader Development
  • Foundations & The Business Case for Leadership Development
    • Explore how leadership capability creates value and why traditional leadership training often falls short. Examine how to align development with business strategy and design an ongoing learning journey that supports practice and workplace application. Learn how to evaluate a program through participant reaction, learning, application, business impact, and return on investment.
  • Leadership Theory, Complexity & Problem-Led Leadership
    • Examine how leaders influence organizational outcomes and how leadership development builds their ability to do so. Be introduced to task- and relationship-oriented behaviors alongside transformational, situational, servant, and problem-led leadership. Explore how organizational context and complexity shape leadership needs and how complementary approaches help leaders build capability and empower others.
  • Wicked Problems, Systems Thinking & Adaptive Practices
    • Discover why some organizational problems resist clear definitions and permanent solutions. Explore how psychological safety, systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, and adaptive leadership help leaders navigate these challenges. Learn approaches for inviting different perspectives, testing assumptions, and adjusting decisions as conditions change.
  • Organizational Scaling, Execution & Capacity for Renewal
    • Explore how individual leadership practices become lasting organizational capabilities. Examine open book management, modular capabilities, internal alignment, and quality tools that support ownership and effective execution. Connect these practices to an organization’s capacity for renewal and examine how AI-supported simulations and personalized feedback can strengthen leadership development.
  • Final Exam
    • Test out your knowledge with the final exam

Taught by

William A. Brantley

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