Harvard Business School Online – Leadership Principles

Description of Leadership Principles

Develop the Leadership Skills to Advance Your Career, Team, and Organization

Leadership Principles is designed to help new and aspiring leaders unleash the potential in themselves and others, and cultivate high-performing teams. Become a more versatile leader who can mobilize others by immersing yourself in real-world leadership challenges, self-assessments, and 360-degree feedback from colleagues and peers.

• Play an Introduction to Leadership Principles video
• Go to Course Syllabus
• Understand your motivational drivers, emotional intelligence, and communication methods to establish a personal leadership style
• Apply or adapt your leadership style to meet specific challenges
• Manage the conditions that drive team performance
• Coach colleagues and share feedback in ways that enable them to develop and deliver
• Handle stressful and demanding leadership situations
• Take charge of your professional development as you navigate the challenges of transitioning from an individual contributor to a leader

WHO WILL BENEFIT

• Early- and Mid-Career Professionals

Prepare for leadership roles after working as an individual contributor or functional specialist.

• New Leaders

Build greater self-awareness and explore how you can adapt your leadership style to meet specific organizational challenges.

• Early-Stage or Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Develop techniques for building high-performing teams, coaching, delivering feedback, and handling stressful leadership situations.

What You’ll Learn In Leadership Principles?

Module 1: Taking Charge

• Appreciate how the work of leadership is different in supporting, driving, and guiding others
• See how a leader’s self-perception and mindset must change in order to bring out the best in others
• Understand the importance of emotional intelligence in transitioning to a leadership position

Module 2: Leading Your Team

• Learn dashboard indicators of team effectiveness
• Explore how to manage the conditions that drive team performance through team purpose, composition, processes, and launch

Module 3: Unleashing Potential in Yourself and Others

• Understand the dimensions, functions, and drives of your leadership style and how to apply or expand it to meet specific challenges
• Learn how to motivate and equip your team and unleash each individual’s unique talents

Module 4: Your Network

• Learn techniques for coaching and delivering feedback and how to influence with and without authority
• Learn how to leverage strategic, operational, and developmental networks, and explore ways to expand and develop them
• Explore avenues for managing the stress of leadership

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