Leadership Essentials (Online)
Through the four-week Leadership Essentials (Online) program that is based on the popular in-person program, participants hone their fundamental leadership skills and emerge with fresh insights into making better business decisions, influencing the team and the organization, and becoming agents of organizational change.
The topic of leadership can be overwhelmingly broad, encompassing multiple disciplines in academia that study the complexity of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational dynamics. But where do we begin to build our leadership abilities or hone our skills for the next chapter of our professional lives?
The Leadership Essentials (Online) program offers a four-week learning journey for aspiring, new, and mid-level leaders to immerse themselves into the essentials of effective leadership with real-world application and research-based insights presented by renowned Columbia Business School faculty and executive coaches in the field.
Based on the popular in-person Leadership Essentials program at Columbia Business School Executive Education, which has been highly rated by nearly 1,000 participants since its inception in 2008, this online program offers the same great learnings in a convenient online format, making it accessible to leaders around the world.
This program is also being offered in a live online format. Learn more about Leadership Essentials (Live Online). To compare program formats, click here.
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The Leadership Essentials (Online) program helps you improve your effectiveness in working with individuals and teams by developing your essential leadership abilities, including team leadership, emotional intelligence, and change management.
By taking this program, you will:
- Learn how to identify different leadership styles and leverage your own style for the evolving leadership roles at your organization
- Enhance your emotional intelligence and learn how to apply it appropriately as a leader
- Get equipped to make more effective business decisions and better communicate them to your team members
- Build strategies to influence your team more effectively and motivate them to maximize their potential
- Develop best practices to lead organizational change
- Understand how to manage the dynamics and climate in your team so you can collectively strengthen your organizational performance
Hear from the program's faculty director on the leadership essentials acquired in the program:
Upon completion of this program, you will earn one credit towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.