Overcoming Challenges to Leaders and Their Teams

Identify and overcome obstacles using your personal leadership development plan. Develop strategies to enhance your team and complete new assignments.

Description

As managers take on new roles and responsibilities, the risks and consequences of failure become much greater. In this course, participants gain skills in identifying and overcoming the obstacles and pitfalls they may face at different stages of their careers.

Participants revise an existing personal Leadership Development Plan to guide them through leadership transitions and make them more effective managers and members of their organizations. (Participants must bring a completed personal leadership development plan to the course—either one they created in LSM509, Unlocking Your Leadership Potential, or one they’ve created in their workplace.) They also develop strategies for helping their team of direct reports grow and change when faced with new assignments. The course includes the opportunity to register for individual or group coaching sessions as a follow-up activity to further reinforce and tailor the program.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is ideal for managers and executives at all levels who have been promoted to positions of increased authority or who are looking to help their team of direct reports grow and change when faced with new assignments.

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:

• A Career of Leadership
  • The Three Stages of Leadership
  • The Three-Wave Pattern of Activity
  • Plan for the Next Stage
• Leading Your Team
  • The High-Performing Team
  • Team Assessment
  • Team Development

Benefits to the Learner

Participants who complete this course will be able to:

• Define the leadership skills and competencies needed for improving your own performance and the performance of your team
• Implement an action plan that outlines the required leadership skills to be developed, specific actions needed to acquire those skills, and a timeframe for doing so

Authoring Faculty

Michael J. Hostetler, Lecturer of Leadership

Sponsoring School

Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management

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
• Leading Management Teams

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, participants must have created a personal leadership development plan—either as a result of having successfully completed LSM509, Unlocking Your Leadership Potential, or through a process undertaken in their workplace.

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 5.25 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