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University of Toronto: Organizational Leadership

Gain the tools and understanding to navigate the complexities of senior leadership.

Gain the tools and understanding to navigate the complexities of senior leadership.

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6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Jun 12, 2024
Enroll by Jun 18, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
6 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Jun 12, 2024
Enroll by Jun 18, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

The increasing complexity of the modern organization — driven by changes in technology, the economy, and society — has resulted in a need for business leaders who can guide their teams through cross-functional intricacies. Success can no longer be achieved through an adherence to siloed hierarchies of teams and functions, but requires enhancing the performance of seemingly disparate parts within the organization itself.

The Rotman Senior Leadership online program from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto offers you the tools, frameworks, and models to produce highly effective organizational teams. In it, you’ll gain a nuanced understanding of the complexities and challenges of senior leadership in order to lead teams towards a high-performance future. You’ll also learn to break down silos, influence business-wide culture, and manage change in your organization. Additionally, you’ll have access to Professor Hugh Arnold’s congruence model of organizational effectiveness, which will help you develop new ways of thinking about organizational effectiveness, and walk away with concrete, practical insights and approaches into the realities of organizational leadership in the modern age.

Focusing on frameworks and models designed to enhance organizational performance, this program will prove useful to senior managers across industries. If you already have experience as a senior manager, the program will allow you to enhance your ability to work across silos and manage change. If you’re new to management or making the transition into a senior role, you’ll develop an understanding of the challenges you might face and the complexities of senior leadership. If you own your business, you’ll learn how you can navigate organizational complexities and foster cross-functional collaboration to enhance performance.

Course curriculum

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Develop a practical approach to organizational leadership as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Understanding the nature of organizational leadership

Module 2: Understanding the determinants of organizational effectiveness

Module 3: Building collaboration in order to break down silos

Module 4: Building and leading your senior team

Module 5: Leveraging organizational culture for high performance

Module 6: Leading effective change management

About the certificate

Enhance performance by comprehending the intricacies of organizational complexity and earn a digital certificate of professional achievement from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the program handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

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Get financial aid

The Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) offers funding to qualifying Canadian citizens.

Rotman Financial Assistance (2022).

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The average growth in revenue as a result of cross-functional digital transformation investment at companies adept at breaking down silos, compared to 6.6 per cent at others.

Accenture (2020).

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