ILRSM512

Mobilizing the Coalition for Action

React to change with an appropriate leadership style. Lead a coalition to manage the change and ensure successful implementation.

Description

In most organizations, it is no longer sufficient to identify what needs to get done, and how it should get done. A leader must have the skills to implement his or her initiative and to overcome the dynamics of opposition and resistance that exist in every organization.

This course, the fourth in the series, "Getting Things Done in Organizations: Creating Change and Building Support," is designed to help learners:

• Apply the leadership style appropriate to the situation
• Put a change coalition into place
• React to changing conditions in the organization to ensure successful implementation
• Anticipate and prepare for the future

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is essential for department heads, team leaders, and managers working at all levels of organizations in virtually any industry sector who wish to understand the process of organizational analysis and change.

Course Format

eCornell takes a problem-based approach to learning, and our courses are built around realistic case studies and scenarios. All courses are self-paced, and are facilitated by an eCornell instructor, who leads the online discussions and is available to answer any questions about the course content.

This course contains the following modules:

• The Essentials of Coalition Leadership
  • Solidifying your coalition
  • Managing differences among coalition members
  • Diffusing your ideas and expanding your network
• Pitfalls to Avoid and Leading for the Long Term
  • Strategies for preventing your coalition from becoming insular
  • Avoiding complacency and differentiating your coalition
  • Negotiating changing conditions and uncertainties
  • Political analysts, consensus builders, and politically competent leaders

Benefits to the Learner

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Solidify their coalition
• Map differences among coalition members
• Propagate ideas and diversify their network
• Identify the two dimensions of coalition leadership
• Avoid traps of insular coalitions
• Recognize and respond to changing conditions within the organization
• Employ a Change Outcome Matrix and respond to different outcomes
• Effect ongoing and proactive change

Authoring Faculty

Samuel Bacharach, Ph.D., Professor

Sponsoring School

Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Total Learning Time

Approximately five to six hours over a period of two weeks.

Certificate Information

This course can be applied toward the following certificates:

• Business Leadership Skills
• Change Leadership

Prerequisites

* Please take Negotiating Support and Buy-In for Your Agenda (ILRSM511) prior to enrolling in this course.

ACE CREDIT Recommendation

This course contributes to an eCornell Certificate Program that has been recommended for college credit by the American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (CREDIT). Please refer to the Certificate information page for additional details.

HRCI Recertification

This course been approved for six (6) Strategic Management recertification credit hours toward SPHR and GPHR recertification and six (6) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute. Please contact the Human Resource Certificate Institute (HRCI) for further information about certification or recertification.

Project Management Institute Professional Development Units

This course qualifies for 7.00 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) for Professional Project Managers (PMPs) seeking ongoing education and professional development for continuing certification. eCornell is a Global Registered Education Provider of PMI. PDUs are designated as Category 3.