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Successful leaders combine business savvy with creative thinking, empathy, and integrity. In this specialization, you’ll hone these abilities and learn how to harness them to lead thriving teams. You’ll sharpen your strategic thinking and find out how to foster innovation and boost customer focus. You’ll learn the essentials of business plans, budgets, and marketing. And you’ll develop the skills to lead responsibly and build a high-performing workplace culture that leverages diverse perspectives.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Drive Innovation and Growth
- Course 2: Boost Your Business Skills
- Course 3: Succeed with Customers
- Course 4: Lead with Integrity
Courses
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A well-crafted business plan serves as a roadmap to sell your ideas and guide growth, while effective budgeting ensures those plans remain sustainable. In this course, you’ll learn how to prepare a clear, robust, and persuasive business plan that helps you achieve specific goals. You’ll also dive into the basics of budgeting to gain the skills you need to keep your projects on track and maximize your team’s impact.
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Strategy and innovation are essential to your organization’s long-term success. As a leader, you need to think strategically and creatively, and help others do the same. In this course, you’ll develop the skills to explore and assess ideas, challenge assumptions, and identify new possibilities to create value for your customers and organization. You’ll also learn strategies to help your team accelerate innovation through experimentation and to win stakeholder buy-in for your innovative ideas.
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Integrity and inclusion are the foundations of a sustainable and successful organization. This course empowers leaders to make principled decisions and cultivate a workplace where every individual can thrive. You’ll learn to navigate complex ethical dilemmas using practical frameworks that balance competing "right-versus-right" priorities. You’ll also learn strategies to support diversity in the workplace, interrupt unconscious bias, and foster a culture of respect. Using these skills will help you boost performance, foster transparency, and earn trust.
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By putting customers front and center, can companies pull ahead—and stay ahead—of their rivals? Understanding who your customers are and how their needs change allows you to deliver superior value that competitors cannot easily copy. By mastering the way you communicate that value, you ensure your products and services resonate deeply and win over your target audience. In this course, you’ll explore how to learn about your customers to better meet their needs and use customer knowledge to deliver additional value. You’ll find out how to build a customer-focused team and foster a marketing orientation that shifts your mindset from selling products to solving problems. Finally, you’ll develop the skills to research and identify target customers, develop a marketing strategy, and implement a marketing plan that effectively reaches both local and global customers.
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Harvard Business Review