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How you choose to grow is yours to define. By investing in yourself, you gain the confidence to move beyond old conventions and embrace new ways of thinking. Along the way, you’ll connect with ambitious peers, world-class faculty, and industry leaders who expand your perspective, share real-world insights, and open doors long after the program ends.
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People, Culture and Change
Is your organization ready for change? This course moves you from foundational understanding into the practical analysis and planning phase of a change initiative. You will assess organizational readiness, conduct a structured Change Impact Assessment, and develop a comprehensive Change Management Strategy and Approach that addresses risks, stakeholders, and complexity. Through applied tools and real-world frameworks, you’ll learn how to plan for adoption, measure success, and sustain change with strong leadership alignment and stakeholder buy-in.
People, Culture and Change
The most resilient organizations don't just manage change, they build the capacity to embrace it as a continuous discipline. This capstone course takes a strategic perspective on how to strengthen an organization's culture for long-term adaptability. You'll explore how to move beyond one-off change projects toward building lasting change management maturity, develop organizational capability that endures after individual initiatives close, and position your organization to respond confidently to both planned and unplanned change in the future.
People, Culture and Change
Every successful change initiative starts with a solid understanding of what change is, why it matters, and how organizations can best prepare for it. This course introduces you to the foundational principles, models, and frameworks of change management. You'll explore how both planned and unexpected change affects organizations, why change initiatives fail, and what distinguishes organizations that navigate change successfully. This is the required first course in the program and the gateway to all subsequent courses.
People, Culture and Change
A great plan is only as good as its execution. This course focuses on bringing your Change Management Strategy and Plan to life. This course emphasizes execution, measurement, sustainment, and closure of change initiatives, aligning with industry best practices. You will move from planning into action—learning how to implement your Change Management Plan, monitor adoption and performance, address resistance in real time, and sustain outcomes. The course also explores how to evaluate success, capture lessons learned, and effectively transition ownership to ensure long-term impact.
Leadership
Learn critical coaching and mentoring skills for driving improved performance. Develop competencies and confidence to support people in their professional journeys. Promote a positive attitude to lead a thriving results-driven team.
Communication
Sharpen your leadership impact from the inside out, through self-reflection and activity-based development. Become more self-aware, as you choose to improve your emotional intelligence. Use communication as an extension of your interpersonal and leadership choices.
Communication
Communication
Practice proven communication techniques in real-world scenarios: team meetings and 1:1 conversations; virtual and face-to-face; email and direct message. Gain the skill and confidence to find your voice and communicate with impact.
Communication
This course provides skills that anyone with limited authority can use to communicate with competence, confidence and credibility. Deliver messages with assertiveness and tact. Enhance your power be heard, build your influence, and engage people at all levels.
Communication
Make conflict resolution part of a healthy work environment. Practice skills for pre-empting potential conflicts and deescalating existing ones in a fair and considerate manner. Smooth the path to productivity, and keep teams on track working towards a common goal.
Marketing
Understanding customer buying habits and lifestyle preferences help organizations make effective and profitable decisions.
Marketing
Data-driven decision making is key to an organization’s success.
Marketing
Today’s organizations have access to a sea of data across a wide variety of channels and activities. However, communicating critical take-aways to stakeholders and creating actionable insights and decisions is becoming increasingly difficult.
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