Learn from MIT Sloan faculty member, Prof. John Van Maanen, co-author of the book Career Anchors
April 27, 2021
2 months, online
2-4 hours per week
Special pricing up to 20% discount is available if you enroll with your colleagues. Please send an email to group-enrollments@emeritus.org for more information.
Leading Organizations & Change is a thought-provoking course with challenging work assignments, practical frameworks based on MIT research, as well as a powerful change management simulation to immerse you in the complexities and nuances of effective change. You’ll learn frameworks, models, and perspectives that you can apply immediately.
of executives rate re-engineering & improving organizational leadership as a top priority.
more likelihood of organizations with effective change management to outperform their peers.
increased likelihood of project success with excellent change management.
65 Video Lectures
7 Assignments
6 Discussions
4 Case Studies
3 Live Teaching Sessions
1 Capstone Simulation
Develop the skills required to assess leadership capabilities and develop the leadership capacity of yourself and those you lead, empowering you to thrive in a volatile, uncertain, chaotic, and complex world by leveraging MIT's Four-Capabilities Model, including visioning, sense-making, relating, and inventing.
Improve your ability to assess change impacts by deepening your understanding of how an organization's strategic design, political environment, and cultural norms impact change management strategies and approaches to addressing critical organizational challenges.
Develop powerful insights about related how to uncover where power exists within organizations, to how to identify and leverage organizational networks and influencers to accelerate change and improve organizational performance.
Engage in a deeper dive into organizational networks and learn about how to leverage key concepts like the Law of Propinquity, analyzing EI Index, as well as assessing and refining network density to advance your agenda.
Apply what you have learned in a real-world change simulation developed by Harvard that will help you appreciate the complexity of managing change and provide you an opportunity to bolster the knowledge and skills you developed throughout the course, so you are well equipped to navigate the complex dynamics of a large-scale change effort.
Develop the skills required to assess leadership capabilities and develop the leadership capacity of yourself and those you lead, empowering you to thrive in a volatile, uncertain, chaotic, and complex world by leveraging MIT's Four-Capabilities Model, including visioning, sense-making, relating, and inventing.
Engage in a deeper dive into organizational networks and learn about how to leverage key concepts like the Law of Propinquity, analyzing EI Index, as well as assessing and refining network density to advance your agenda.
Improve your ability to assess change impacts by deepening your understanding of how an organization's strategic design, political environment, and cultural norms impact change management strategies and approaches to addressing critical organizational challenges.
Apply what you have learned in a real-world change simulation developed by Harvard that will help you appreciate the complexity of managing change and provide you an opportunity to bolster the knowledge and skills you developed throughout the course, so you are well equipped to navigate the complex dynamics of a large-scale change effort.
Develop powerful insights about related how to uncover where power exists within organizations, to how to identify and leverage organizational networks and influencers to accelerate change and improve organizational performance.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded a verified digital certificate by Emeritus in collaboration with MIT Sloan.
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