Leading: People, Teams and Organizations

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Build Your Toolkit for Leading High-Impact Teams

It is said that great leaders are born; instead, we believe, great leaders nurture their skills for leading people, teams, and organizations. Developing these skills requires time, experience, and commitment. However, the Leading: People, Teams and Organizations program by Emeritus in collaboration with Columbia Business School Executive Education sets the stage for you to identify where you can get the most leverage to enhance your leadership toolkit today.

This program provides fundamental tools from the behavioral and social sciences that will improve your ability to analyze people, team, and organizational dynamics. This program combines years of research into a powerful set of concepts, tools, and frameworks that you can easily adapt into your journey as a leader. The program is designed to give you fresh perspectives in challenging areas like decision making, influence, teamwork, organizational culture, and social capital.

#1

Empathy is considered the most critical leadership performance driver

Source: Smarp

83%

Of organizations acknowledge the importance of developing leaders at all levels

Source: Compare Camp

6%

Of organizations strongly agree that their leaders are equipped to lead a multigenerational workforce effectively

Source: Deloitte

Key Takeaways

  • Gain access to a robust set of concepts, tools, and frameworks that you can easily adapt to your journey as a leader
  • Discover how to assemble the skills, talents, and resources of individuals and groups to solve problems and create new opportunities
  • Gain a fresh perspective in challenging areas like decision making, influence, teamwork, organizational culture, and social capital
  • Learn how to manage people, information, and processes to accomplish organizational goals
  • Identify a way to continue even in unprecedented times while maintaining ethics and integrity

Program Modules

Module 1:

What Does Leadership Mean to You

Gain an introduction to the three archetypes of leadership, critical ingredients of effective leadership, and the importance of shared goals and people motivation.

Module 2:

How to Make Effective Decisions

Dig deeper into decision-making challenges and how to overcome them while applying the six decision-making biases framework to your leadership style.

Module 3:

The Art of Influencing with Ethics

Uncover the principles to influence people ethically and fairly. Influencing skills is another crucial element in effective leadership and plays a role in making informed decisions.

Module 4:

Creating and Leading High Impact Teams

Gain strategic insights about leading and managing high-performing teams and explore the common causes of success and failure in teams.

Module 5:

How to Understand Organizational Structure to Lead Effectively

Understand the nuances of organizational culture and why it is so important. You will also learn about the components that make up the culture in an organization, especially in mergers.

Module 6:

The Power of Social Capital

Explore the types and the effect of a social network on us. You will also learn how to expand your existing networks to your advantage.

Module 1:

What Does Leadership Mean to You

Gain an introduction to the three archetypes of leadership, critical ingredients of effective leadership, and the importance of shared goals and people motivation.

Module 4:

Creating and Leading High Impact Teams

Gain strategic insights about leading and managing high-performing teams and explore the common causes of success and failure in teams.

Module 2:

How to Make Effective Decisions

Dig deeper into decision-making challenges and how to overcome them while applying the six decision-making biases framework to your leadership style.

Module 5:

How to Understand Organizational Structure to Lead Effectively

Understand the nuances of organizational culture and why it is so important. You will also learn about the components that make up the culture in an organization, especially in mergers.

Module 3:

The Art of Influencing with Ethics

Uncover the principles to influence people ethically and fairly. Influencing skills is another crucial element in effective leadership and plays a role in making informed decisions.

Module 6:

The Power of Social Capital

Explore the types and the effect of a social network on us. You will also learn how to expand your existing networks to your advantage.

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Program Experience

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75 Video Lectures

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6 Discussions

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3 Role Plays

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1 Leadership & Action Plan

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360° Assessment & Feedback

Faculty

Faculty Member The Late Katherine Phillips

The Late Katherine Phillips

Reuben Mark Professor of Organizational Character

The late Katherine Phillips joined the faculty at Columbia Business School as the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics in the fall of 2011. Before joining Columbia Business School, she was Associate Professor of Management and Organizations... More info

Faculty Member Adam Galinsky

Adam Galinsky

Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business Chair of Management Division

Adam Galinsky received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.A. from Harvard University. Professor Galinsky has published more than 200 scientific articles,... More info

Certificate

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Certificate

Upon completion of the program, you will receive a certificate of participation by Emeritus, in collaboration with Columbia Business School Executive Education.

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