Leaders need to be able to manage complexity and uncertainty navigating many different moving parts, all within a changing market place and unprecedented change.
This minicourse is about intractable problems, the kind that are persistent, damaging and difficult to resolve. This, course is also then about leadership, as it is people who solve difficult problems, and can also create them
About the course
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to:
Apply specialist leadership knowledge to generate a plan to effectively enable teams and individual performance in the workplace
Critically reflect and integrate leader theories that help to build adaptive leader-member relationships
What topics will you cover?
Outlining intractable problems
Leadership responses to intractable problems
Developing future leaders as problem solvers
Assessment
To be eligible for a digital badge for this minicourse, you will need to successfully complete an assessment which includes writing a position description for a manager who can deal with intractable problems and writing an interview scenario for the position.