Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Strategic Management and Leadership from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Improve leadership and business skills for immediate impact. Apply practical methods to become an effective organizational manager.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בניהול ומנהיגות אסטרטגית של אוניברסיטת אילינוי אורבנה-שמפיין

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

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Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Critical thinking skills
  • Effective communication
  • Troubleshooting
  • Time management
  • Teamwork
  • leadership
  • Organizational skills
  • Technological skills
  • creativity
  • Presentation skills

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Human Resources Manager
  • Team Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Strategic Manager
  • Organization manager
  • Management consultant
  • Business Development Manager
  • Marketing Manager
  • Operations Manager
  • Sales Manager

specialization

  • Course series

    • A series of 6 courses specializing in strategic management and leadership.
    • Learning the basics of managing people, teams and organizations effectively.
    • Developing tools for analyzing business situations.

  • Building a conceptual framework for leadership

    • Development and training in strategies with immediate impact.

  • Strategic fundamentals

    • Human and organizational resource management.
    • Creating and capturing value for sustainable competitive advantage.
    • The specialization focuses on both a single business and across a portfolio of businesses.

  • Final program

    • A management and leadership program where you will apply what you have learned in a business situation.
    • Participation of one or more companies.
    • The practical and experiential product will provide valuable practice.
    • Creating value from the perspective of potential employers.

  • The online program group

    • The internship is part of the Gays Business School’s group of online programs.
    • Including iMBA and iMSM.

  • More information

    • For details about admission to the program.
    • How your Coursera work can be leveraged if you are accepted into the program.
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Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Team Leadership: Developing as a Leader

Course 1

  • 14 hours
  • 4.8 (6,021 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Challenge yourself to develop as a leader.
  • Explore the concept of leadership.
  • You will appreciate the skills required of leaders in the modern era.
  • You will learn more about yourself and how to make effective and ethical decisions.
  • You will recognize how to build trusting relationships with others.
  • You will formulate a culture of growth as a leader.

The course is part of the Gies College of Business’s online program series, including the iMBA, iMSA, and iMSM. Learn more about admissions to these programs and how you can leverage your Coursera work if you’re accepted to a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .

Skills you will develop
  • Category: Strategic Management
  • Category: Leadership
  • Category: Management
  • Category: Business Strategy

Team Leadership: Building Effective Team Cultures

Course 2

  • 13 hours
  • 4.8 (2,306 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Dive into the idea of ​​building effective team cultures.
  • You will explore various aspects of team culture that underlie effective teams.
  • You will learn more about cultures of safety, engagement, and growth.
  • You can lead your teams in directions that facilitate the most effective teamwork.

The course is part of the Gies College of Business’s online program series, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admissions to these programs and how you can leverage your Coursera work if you’re accepted to a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .

Skills you will develop
  • Category: Organizational Design
  • Category: Strategic Management
  • Category: Organizational Structure
  • Category: Organizational Theories

Organization design

Course 3

  • 13 hours
  • 4.7 (1,656 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Identify and explain common organizational design challenges that organizations face.
  • Apply theory and principles to more effectively deal with these challenges in your professional life.
  • Analyze the effectiveness of organizational design choices in different organizations.
  • Recommend organizational design solutions to increase organizational effectiveness.
Skills you will develop
  • Category: Motivation and Engagement Management
  • Category: Creating a space for reporting, equality and inclusion
  • Category: Team Culture Development
  • Category: Navigating Growth and Change in Teams
  • Category: Psychological Safety Guidance

Organization management

Course 4

  • 12 hours
  • 4.7 (1,410 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • This course is designed to help you become a better manager by providing a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges associated with managerial life in organizations.
  • You will learn theories, principles, and frameworks that will help you manage and lead your organizations more effectively.
You will be able to:
  • Analyze common management challenges and develop solutions to these challenges.
  • Use power effectively and strategically to implement organizational change.
  • Understand the fundamentals of organizational culture and decision-making.
  • Skip common decision-making pitfalls and ethical challenges.
  • Apply organizational management principles to common management challenges.

The course is part of the Gies College of Business’s online program series, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admissions to these programs and how you can leverage your Coursera work if you’re accepted to a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .

Skills you will develop
  • Category: Strategic Management
  • Category: Diversity
  • Category: Global Strategy
  • Category: Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Category: Corporate Government

Business strategy

Course 5

  • 18 hours
  • 4.8 (1,914 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • In this course, you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value.
  • You will develop an understanding of how and why this process is fundamental to sustainable competitive success.
  • You will be able to better understand the value creation process and learn the tools for analyzing competition and collaboration from a variety of aspects.
You will be able to:
  • Understand how managers coordinate different functional areas, resources, and systems within a company and align them with the external environment to improve overall performance.
  • Become familiar with strategic management tools and frameworks and apply them in real business contexts.
  • Process diverse business and industry information to diagnose strategic problems, evaluate strategic alternatives, and formulate a consistent and actionable strategic plan.

The course is part of the Gies College of Business’s online program series, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admissions to these programs and how you can leverage your Coursera work if you’re accepted to a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/ .

Skills you will develop
  • Category: Strategic Management
  • Category: Business Model
  • Category: Strategic Thinking
  • Category: Business Strategy

Corporate strategy

Course 6

  • 10 hours
  • 4.7 (1,106 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • In this course, you will learn how corporations create, capture, and retain value.
  • This course complements a course on business strategy.
  • You will be able to better understand and learn tools for analyzing and resolving decisions from a corporate perspective.
You will be able to:
  • Understand how corporations create and capture value as enterprises with multiple businesses.
  • Learn tools and frameworks to evaluate choices regarding corporate scope, corporate transactions, and global strategy.
  • Learn to analyze complex business situations and develop consistent corporate strategies.
  • Understand the role of corporate governance and stakeholder management in modern societies.

The course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, an online MBA with flexible accreditation at a very competitive price. For more information, see the resources page for this course and at onlinemba.illinois.edu .

Skills you will develop
  • Category: Organizational Change
  • Category: Decision Making
  • Category: Strategic Leadership
  • Category: Organizational Culture
  • Category: Ethics

The Finish Line of Strategic Leadership and Management

Course 7

  • 10 hours
  • 4.7 (287 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • The bottom line is a strategic and managerial leadership plan.
  • Apply what you learned to a real business situation.
  • The product will be designed to create value from the perspective of potential employers.

The course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, an online MBA with flexible accreditation at a very competitive price. For more information, see the resources page for this course and at onlinemba.illinois.edu .

Skills you will develop
  • Category: Self-awareness
  • Category: Trust in Relationships
  • Category: Ethical Decision Making
  • Category: Leadership Development
  • Category: Leadership Definition

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