Enhance leadership and business skills for immediate impact. Practice everyday leadership, manage people, learn and apply concepts and techniques to effectively manage organizations through organizational design, and formulate and implement strategy.
Through the courses in this specialization, you will learn the fundamentals to effectively lead people and teams, manage organizations as well as tools to analyze business situations and develop strategies. The Specialization covers the strategic, human resource, and organizational foundations for creating and capturing value for sustainable competitive advantage – including how to manage people and organizations, analyze the competition, and develop strategies both within a business and across a portfolio of businesses.
The capstone is a strategic leadership and management plan where you’ll apply what you will learn to an actual business situation with participation by one or more focal companies. The deliverable will be designed to create value from the perspective of potential employers while achieving pedagogical and experiential goals for learners.
This Specialization is part of the University of Illinois Masters of Business Administration degree program, the iMBA. Learn more about the admission into the program here and how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into the program. You can also start with for-credit courses within the Illinois iMBA degree program.
专项课程 的运作方式
加入课程
Coursera 专项课程是帮助您掌握一门技能的一系列课程。若要开始学习，请直接注册专项课程，或预览专项课程并选择您要首先开始学习的课程。当您订阅专项课程的部分课程时，您将自动订阅整个专项课程。您可以只完成一门课程，您可以随时暂停学习或结束订阅。访问您的学生面板，跟踪您的课程注册情况和进度。
实践项目
每个专项课程都包括实践项目。您需要成功完成这个（些）项目才能完成专项课程并获得证书。如果专项课程中包括单独的实践项目课程，则需要在开始之前完成其他所有课程。
获得证书
在结束每门课程并完成实践项目之后，您会获得一个证书，您可以向您的潜在雇主展示该证书并在您的职业社交网络中分享。
此专项课程包含 7 门课程
课程1
Foundations of Everyday Leadership
4.8
1,672 个评分
In this course you will learn about the “head and heart” of everyday leadership, individual decision making, group decision making, and managing motivation. The objectives are to understand why and how leadership skills are so critical to organizational success, and learn the foundations of effective leadership skills.
Learners:
• Understand why and how leadership skills are so critical to organizational success
• Know how to use leadership skills to work more effectively with others, and are able to organize teams to work more effectively together
• Will be able to apply the foundations of effective leadership skills to everyday situations faced by leaders.
This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.
课程2
Applications of Everyday Leadership
4.8
914 个评分
This course covers the following topics: negotiation, feedback and coaching, conflict management, and leading change. The objectives are to learn how to use leadership skills to work more effectively with others, how to use leadership skills to organize others to work more effectively together, and to apply the foundations of effective leadership skills to everyday situations faced by leaders.
Learners:
• Will be able to negotiate effectively and influence others
• Provide feedback and coaching that is appropriate and influential
• Will be able to manage conflict and lead change
This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.
课程3
Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organizational Structure
4.5
580 个评分
In this course you will understand how firms are organized, what factors must be taken into account in making critical design decisions, and what role managers play in making these choices. In order to answer these questions, we will first develop a conceptual process model that links business models, external and internal contingencies, and organizational design. Second, we will focus on the fundamental principles of organization design and what alternative design choices are available for managers. Finally, we will apply these concepts and ideas to organizational situations to develop the critical insights and decision making skills to build effective organizations.
Learners:
• Will understand how managers create value through their organizations
• Will have a good understanding of the fundamental principles and factors important to organizational design
• Will be able to design the coordination, control, and performance measurement systems to manage an organization.
This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.
课程4
Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution
4.6
417 个评分
In this course you will build a practical framework to understand the critical linkages between organization design and the creation of economic value through execution. We will focus on four critical linkages:
1. How organizational growth and life cycle require design changes to improve execution
2. How managerial decision making can be improved through better organization design
3. How the design of human resource practices shape the culture of the organization
4. How innovation and change can be facilitated through organization design
These linkages are critical in assessing how managers make sure that the organizations they design can execute the strategies they have envisioned under changing environmental conditions.
Learners will be able to answer the following:
• What are the managerial implications of organizational growth and life cycle?
• How do you improve managerial decision making through organizational design?
• How do human resource management policies shape organizational culture?
• How do organizations plan for top management succession and change?
• How do you know that your organization design is not effective?
• How do you manage organizational change and innovation?
This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.
讲师
Deepak Somaya
Professor of Business AdministrationUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign College of Business Department of Business Administration
Gregory Northcraft
Professor of Business Administration and Harry J. Gray Professor of Executive LeadershipCollege of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joe Mahoney
Professor of Business AdministrationUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign College of Business Department of Business Administration
Michael Bednar
Associate ProfessorBusiness Administration
Huseyin Leblebici
Professor of Business AdministrationUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign College of Business Department of Business Administration
Jeffrey Loewenstein
Associate Professor of Organizational BehaviorDepartment of Business Administration
Jack Goncalo
ProfessorDepartment of Business Administration
Jeff Flesher
PhD立即开始攻读硕士学位
此 专项课程 隶属于 伊利诺伊大学香槟分校 提供的 100% 在线 Master of Business Administration (iMBA)。如果您被录取参加全部课程，您的课程将计入您的学位学习进程。
关于 伊利诺伊大学香槟分校
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a world leader in research, teaching and public engagement, distinguished by the breadth of its programs, broad academic excellence, and internationally renowned faculty and alumni. Illinois serves the world by creating knowledge, preparing students for lives of impact, and finding solutions to critical societal needs.
常见问题
退款政策是如何规定的？
我可以只注册一门课程吗？
可以！点击您感兴趣的课程卡开始注册即可。注册并完成课程后，您可以获得可共享的证书，或者您也可以旁听该课程免费查看课程资料。如果您订阅的课程是某专项课程的一部分，系统会自动为您订阅完整的专项课程。访问您的学生面板，跟踪您的进度。
有助学金吗？
我可以免费学习课程吗？
此课程是 100% 在线学习吗？是否需要现场参加课程？
此课程完全在线学习，无需到教室现场上课。您可以通过网络或移动设备随时随地访问课程视频、阅读材料和作业。
完成专项课程需要多长时间？
Time to completion can vary widely based on your schedule, most learners are able to complete the Specialization in 3-6 months.
此专项课程中每门课程的开课频率为多久？
Each course in the Specialization is offered on a regular schedule with sessions starting about once per month. If you don't complete a course on the first try, you can easily transfer to the next session, and your completed work and grades will carry over.
What background knowledge is necessary?
No background knowledge is required. This Specialization is designed for anyone interested in becoming a better manager, team member, or leader.
Do I need to take the courses in a specific order?
It is recommended that the courses in the Specialization be taken in the order outlined. Some courses do list other courses as prerequisites. In the Capstone Project, you will have the opportunity to synthesize your learning in all six courses and apply your combined skills in a final project.
完成专项课程后我会获得大学学分吗？
iMBA courses in Coursera do not carry University of Illinois credit on their own. Each course has an enhanced for-credit component. You can earn academic credit if you combine an iMBA Coursera course with the enhanced for-credit component offered on the University of Illinois platform. Some universities may choose to accept Specialization Certificates for credit. Check with your institution to learn more.
What will I be able to do upon completing the Specialization?
• You will know how to lead people and teams, how to manage conflict and lead change in an organization.
• You will be able to build effective decision-making infrastructures by diagnosing organizational issues.
• You’ll learn about tools to analyze strategy and its implementation integrated across industry, firm, and corporate levels.
I’m interested and have more questions about the iMBA. Where do I go for more information?
Please find more information at https://www.coursera.org/course/imba and http://onlinemba.illinois.edu/, or email your questions to onlineMBA@illinois.edu.
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