Leadership Essentials

O.P. Jindal Global University via Coursera

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English
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18 weeks, 1 hour a week
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Self-Paced
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Beginner
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English, Pashto, Farsi

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Ready to become a more confident, effective leader? Leadership Essentials helps you build the knowledge and practical skills to lead people, improve performance, navigate change, and develop your own leadership capabilities. Explore what leadership really means, challenge common leadership myths, and understand how leaders, followers, and situations interact. Build your leadership toolkit through frameworks such as the Action-Observation-Reflection model, leadership grid, competency models, leadership pipeline, and contingency theories. Go beyond theory to strengthen communication, listening, assertiveness, problem-solving, creativity, credibility, coaching, mentoring, and relationship-building. Learn how to motivate followers, manage team performance, understand organizational and cultural influences, and adapt your leadership approach to different situations. You’ll also examine transformational and transactional leadership, organizational change, destructive leadership, managerial incompetence, and leadership derailment—giving you a balanced understanding of both effective leadership and its potential pitfalls. Whether you’re an aspiring manager, current leader, professional, or student, this course gives you practical frameworks to lead yourself, lead others, and lead through change. Build stronger leadership skills and unlock your potential to lead with greater confidence and impact. Enroll today.

Syllabus

Understanding Leadership
- In this module, you will learn about what is meant by when we use the term leadership. The module analyzes the myths of leadership. You will gain insights into the interactional framework for leadership, which includes the leader, the followers, and the situation. The module also discusses women in leadership roles.
Leadership Development
- In this module, you will learn about leadership development, that is, how to become a better leader. The module analyzes the action-observation-reflection model. You will learn the key role of perception in the spiral of experience. The module also discusses the importance of reflection in leadership through single and double-loop learning. You will also gain insights into how coaching and mentoring are tools for leadership development.
Summative Assessment: Understanding Leadership and Leadership Development
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the modules covered in this week.
Focus on the Leader
- In this module, you will learn about leaders and their personality attributes. The module analyzes the triarchic theory of intelligence in the context of leadership. You will gain insights into why studying leadership is important. The module also discusses the early studies of leadership.
Leadership Behavior
- In this module, you will learn about leadership behavior through the leadership grid. The module analyzes competency models of leadership. You will gain insights into the leadership pipeline. The module also discusses the concept of community leadership.
Summative Assessment: Focus on the Leader and Leadership Behavior
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the modules covered in this week.
Developing Yourself as a Leader
- In this module, you will learn how to develop yourself as a leader. The module analyzes the first days of leadership. You will gain insights into how to learn from experience. The module also discusses how to build technical competence and effective relationships. You will also learn how to plan your leadership development.
Building Personal Credibility
- In this module, you will learn about how to build personal credibility. The module analyzes the communication and listening skills required for leadership. You will gain insights into how to be assertive and conduct effective meetings. The module also discusses how to manage stress. You will also learn problem-solving and creativity.
Summative Assessment: Developing Yourself as a Leader and Building Personal Credibility
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the modules covered in this week.
Focus on ‘The Follower’
- In this module, you will learn about the role of followers in the leadership process. Although the importance of a good leader cannot be denied, this module focuses on understanding the research around followers and followership. You will learn different models of followership and understand follower motivation and satisfaction.
Follower Performance and Potential
- In this module, you will learn about what and how follower performance and effectiveness. You will also understand the performance management process for team effectiveness. The module uncovers characteristics of follower potential and centers around promotion determinants.
Summative Assessment: Focus on ‘The Follower’ and Follower Performance and Potential
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the modules covered in this week.
Focus on ‘The Situation’
- In this module, you will learn about the implications for leadership arising from the task, the organization, and the environment. The module examines how different task, organizational, and environmental factors affect both leaders’ and followers’ behavior.
Contingency Theories of Leadership
- In this module, you will learn about the four well-known contingency theories of leadership. You will be able to understand how leadership effectiveness is maximized when leaders correctly make their behaviors contingent on certain situational and follower characteristics.
Summative Assessment: Focus on ‘The Situation’ and Contingency Theories of Leadership
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the modules covered in this week.
Leadership and Change
- In this module, you will learn about the various approaches to organizational change. The module covers rational and emotional approaches to change. You learn how the scope of change varies dramatically on the leaders’ ability to recognize the situational and follower factors inhibiting or facilitating change and formulate a compelling vision for the future.
Dark Sides of Leadership
- In this module, you will learn about what constitutes bad leadership. The module will review research pertaining to some practical steps for avoiding destructive leadership, managerial incompetence, and managerial derailment. You will also identify a few root causes of managerial incompetence and derailment.
Summative Assessment: Leadership and Change and Dark Sides of Leadership
- This assessment is a graded quiz based on the modules covered in this week.