MBA Courses

Becoming an authentic leader is a lifelong journey, scattered with obstacles. Balancing multiple limitations against aspirations, values, and competencies takes great skill. Staying true to yourself while adapting to the diverse and changing needs of organizations and others is an ever-evolving challenge. This course will help you develop the best of what you are, building a foundation for your own leadership today and in the future.

Communicating with transparency is a fundamental skill shared by authentic leaders. Define and develop this skill and learn to communicate effectively with individuals and teams in a variety of contexts—as a manager, team leader, or collaborator. Equip yourself with many tools to collaborate across cultural and generational boundaries in a variety of common situations.

Authentic leaders are skilled decision-makers. They can also mobilize stakeholders to understand and achieve shared purposes once decisions have been made. Authentic Leadership 3 looks at individual and group influences on decision making and how to maximize personal impact on organizational outcomes.

Values are the driving force behind authentic leadership. Your own background and behavior influence your vision and principles. Explore the relationship between values and leadership, with a special focus on the global business environment. Gain a deeper understanding of your fundamental values, what to do when those values conflict, and how to harness your moral perspective for powerful forms of organizational leadership.

Successful businesses compare and contrast past performance with new information to visualize industry trends, identify areas of improvement, and execute decisions. Usage of data analysis helps companies predict industry and market trends and adapt accordingly. Understand and apply different business metrics and use quantitative and qualitative analyses to provide specific recommendations to businesses/clients.

The long-term success of a company depends on a clearly articulated corporate strategy. Strategy is dynamic: it’s full of uncertainty, ambiguity, geo-political influences, and new opportunities and threats presented by technological advancements. You’ll combine timeless economic principles such as industry forces, relative cost position, and value chains with futures thinking to identify business opportunities and address evolving vulnerabilities.

The explosion of data in our ecosystem has prompted businesses to invest and build expertise in data management and integration across platforms. This course introduces you to exciting new concepts, processes, and tools you need to know in order to get a foundational knowledge of data management and integration.

Data tells a powerful story. You’ll need to quickly and decisively extract the key insights hidden in data to inform decision-making. Data visualization techniques and tools enable us to summarize data details and patterns into graphically-expressed representations, leading to actionable conclusions. Presentation is key. Get to know the design concepts involved in visualizing data for decision-makers.