Leadership, Management and Collaborative Practice

Collaboration can be difficult. As a word alone, collaboration seems abstract, conjuring up images of people always being together. On top of this, collaboration involves the complexities of human beings. Encouraging people to work together towards a shared mission may not be successful if you don't convey or provide an incentive. In this course, Prakash Raman dismisses the premise that collaboration is fixed, explaining that there is a wide spectrum of what teamwork and partnerships can look like, so you can begin to learn and experience the benefits of collaboration.

A central goal of any manager is to help their employees produce good work, and enhance their ability to do this work over time. But while the concept of performance management isn't new, the methods used to accomplish it have changed. Today's managers must contend with a variety of different factors, including a shortage of skilled labor and boomers leaving the workforce as millennials enter it.

Leadership—the art of influencing and developing others to achieve their highest potential—is often identified as the most critical role in an organization. But what is effective leadership and how do you cultivate it? In this course, leadership consultant and global workforce expert Dr. Shirley Davis covers the basics of leading yourself and others.

Inspirational leaders can create transformation within themselves and their teams, in the form of pursuing services and missions that matter. This course is designed to help leaders create cultures of innovation, engagement, and growth.