High Stakes Leadership: Leading in Times of Crisis
Study this course to learn the essential crisis management skills you need to lead your team through crises when they hit.
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4 weeksWeekly study
6 hours
High Stakes Leadership: Leading in Times of Crisis
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Discover how to lead through a crisis with the University of Michigan
When a crisis hits, your team will look to you for guidance. Studying this course with experts from the University of Michigan will help you build the skills you need to lead your team through crises and be well prepared to tackle the uniquely challenging nature of a crisis when it hits.
What topics will you cover?
- Why the VUCA world is making crises more common
- Characteristics of resilient organizations and ways to increase resilience
- Stakeholder value propositions and how these are threatened during a crisis
- Organizing frameworks for estimating the types of crises an organization might encounter
- The unique and challenging nature of the crisis environment
- The fundamentals of crisis leadership
- Building a plan to prepare yourself, your team, and your organization for your next major crisis—which, in today’s world, is not so much an “if”, as a “when”.
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- You will learn to develop and apply develop an exceptional set of crisis-leadership tools that will serve you well throughout your professional career.
- You will learn how to effectively navigate the challenges of significant organizational disruptions
- You will learn why the VUCA world is making crises more common
- Characteristics of resilient organizations and ways to increase resilience
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for all leaders who want to prepare themselves for leading through a crisis and navigate the challenges of significant organisational disruptions.
Who will you learn with?
I'm a Clinical Professor at Michigan's Ross School of Business. I teach Crisis Leadership and Entrepreneurship. Former co-founder of JetBlue Airways, Chief Flight Instructor at TOPGUN, & EdTech Exec.
Who developed the course?
University of Michigan
As the #1 public research university in the United States, U-M has been a leader in research, learning, and teaching for more than 200 years, with 102 Grad programs in the top 10 — U.S. News & World Report (2019).
Established
1817Location
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAWorld ranking
Top 30Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020
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