Sustaining Momentum: Motivating Through Vision, Culture, and Political Agility

Manage organizational culture to sustain momentum. Exercise political agility to ensure support for the agenda and to promote long-term growth.

Description

Leaders need to provide the vision exercise the political agility, and establish the organizational culture necessary to keep their initiatives vital and moving forward. Proactive leaders must have the skills to keep the “soul” of their coalition alive and relevant to the needs of the organization.

This course is designed to help learners:

• Manage organizational culture to sustain momentum.
• Become politically agile in ensuring continued support for their agenda.
• Manage their coalition—and their agenda—for the long-term.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is essential for executives, managers, department heads, team leaders, and others working at all levels of organizations in virtually any industry sector who wish to become effective leaders for long-term results.

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:

• Cultural Momentum
• Creating a problem-solving culture
• Developing the collective while supporting the individual
• Celebrating results without "worshiping idols"
• Political Momentum
• Keep the coalition mindset alive
• Don’t feed the Trojan horse
• Beware of counter-coalitions
• Proactive Leadership
• Putting your agenda together, from idea to implementation
• Planning your next agenda and leveraging current success.

Benefits to the Learner

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Create a culture of motivation that helps people learn and problem-solve while providing opportunities for affiliation and re-affirmation
• Become politically agile: anticipate conflict and continuously mobilize support to ensure that their agenda remains vital
• Build on current success and plan their next agenda
• Focus on the big picture - from acting on an idea to implementing for long-term results - in their organization

Authoring Faculty

Samuel B. Bacharach, Ph.D., McKelvey-Grant Professor

Sponsoring School

Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Total Learning Time

Approximately 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 Establishing Momentum: Managing Structure, Resources, and Perf (ILRSM513) prior to enrolling in this course.

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.

This course qualifies for 7.25 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.

Project Management Institute Professional Development Units