Lead for Results: From Planning to Execution

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Overview

Your job as a leader is to get results for your organization. That requires more than dedication—you need to develop smart plans and ensure your team executes them well. In this specialization, you’ll learn how to set ambitious goals, measure progress, and manage projects that deliver successful outcomes. You’ll discover techniques to optimize how you and your team approach work and manage time. And you’ll gain skills in delegating and negotiating to ensure you’re able to lead your team to success. By the end of this specialization, you’ll be ready to lead projects and people with confidence—turning plans into results that fuel both organizational success and your own growth.

Syllabus

Course 1: Set and Implement Goals
Course 2: Optimize Projects and Processes
Course 3: Execute with Focus and Discipline
Course 4: Gain Alignment to Achieve Results

Courses

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11 hours 45 minutes
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Focused, disciplined leadership helps you and your team spend time wisely. In this course, you’ll learn how to make smart decisions to make the most of everyone’s time and energy and overcome the obstacles that derail productivity. You’ll learn techniques to ensure meetings are helpful, routines are optimized, and common challenges don’t get in the way of your team’s success.
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10 hours 45 minutes
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Delegating and negotiating are crucial leadership activities, but can be extremely challenging. Success requires smart decisions and ensuring alignment with the other people involved. In this course, you’ll discover how to make good decisions to support effective delegation and negotiation, techniques for communicating thoughtfully, and how to avoid pitfalls to ensure you achieve.
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16 hours 20 minutes
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Effective project management and strategic process improvement are two powerful ways you can help your team perform well In this course, you'll learn how to manage projects effectively, enabling you to achieve strategic goals, minimize company costs, and ensure the timely completion of tasks. You’ll also find out how to boost productivity by analyzing and improving your team’s processes.
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13 hours 24 minutes
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To lead your team to success, you need to establish clear, motivating goals, plan how to achieve them, and follow up to learn from successes and failures. In this course, you'll learn how to set the right goals and establish processes to translate objectives into performance. You’ll find out how to measure performance effectively so you can gauge progress against goals, inspire your team to learn and improve, and steer clear of common pitfalls that occur with performance measurement. By developing these skills, you’ll be able to guide your team to meet and exceed expectations and deliver valuable results to your organization.