Data-Driven Leadership Skills

Analyse the role of data, volume, quality, and timeliness, in decision making and critically evaluate, with particular reference to digital data, traditional leadership models In this course, you will learn the importance of data to leadership in the 21st Century and how this is a game-changer compared with earlier approaches, developed in an, arguable, simpler past. Specifically, the course will impart some tactics, approaches and tools that will help the learner to become a more data-savvy leader. This is achieved by providing a high level overview of the data-deluge and indicate how decision makers can tame that data to some extent, and what cannot be tamed. The takeaway form this course, is a multi-stage approach that will simplify projects conducted in the VUCA environment of the 21st Century.

This course will explore the theme of 'Authenticity' in leadership by introducing you to the history of leadership theory going back to Ancient Greece. We will establish how traditional leadership became so important. We will also explore how traditional leadership began to unravel when leadership went scientific. We explain how this new data-driven approach to leadership showed that leadership qualities alone do not explain leadership.

In this course, we describe how agility became increasingly important in the 21st Century. We explore the role of information communication in disrupting hierarchical leadership. We will explore the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world of the 21st Century and look at how the traditional discipline of strategic planning is adapting under the turbulence of the data deluge. We will be looking at the rise of exploratory strategy.