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CISL: Leading Sustainability: High Impact Leadership

One liner: Explore new perspectives of leadership as you learn to unite teams in pursuing organisational goals.

One liner: Explore new perspectives of leadership as you learn to unite teams in pursuing organisational goals.

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8 weeks
8–10 hours per week
Starts May 8, 2024
Enroll by May 14, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
8 weeks
8–10 hours per week
Starts May 8, 2024
Enroll by May 14, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

__In a contemporary business landscape marked by technological disruption and rapid change, industry leaders play an increasingly important role in shaping an environment that ensures continued growth.

The Leading Sustainability: High Impact Leadership online short course provides you with the skills to lead with influence in any business setting, while giving you the opportunity to investigate different leadership styles, frameworks, and best practices. Explore new perspectives and strategies as you discover the value of high impact leadership in individual, team, and organisational contexts. Develop key competencies, equip yourself with the tools to unite teams over a common objective, and find your own purpose as a leader.

This online course is guided by industry experts and faculty from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), who have many years of experience in supporting business leaders from around the world to bring about change in their organisations.

This online course is designed to improve the leadership skills of anyone, in any setting, who is looking to learn how best to unite teams and engage stakeholders. Those who aspire to leadership will benefit from building greater self-confidence in their ability to lead. They’ll analyse their own leadership style and explore ways to gain visibility as effective leaders in preparation for the next step in their career. Established leaders will have the opportunity to refine their leadership style, and learn how to boost team performance through team alignment, influence, and unity.

Course curriculum

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Learn to apply new leadership strategies for business impact as you follow your learning path through the weekly modules of this online course:

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: High impact leadership and its importance

Module 2: Exploring the context for leadership and the related challenges

Module 3: What does high impact leadership look like?

Module 4: The future we want, the leadership we need

Module 5: High impact leadership capabilities

Module 6: Communicating for influence

Module 7: Developing the mindset and skills for innovation

Module 8: Rewiring your leadership to achieve your goals

About the certificate

Discover the art of successful leadership and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

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

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.

Some facts about the subject

28%

The percentage of HR professionals who feel their companies have high-quality leadership.

DDI World (2021).

$3.5 billion

The amount spent globally on leadership-development initiatives in 2019, illustrating its importance in business.

Training Industry (Nov, 2020).

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