Inquiry-Driven Leadership
Inquiry-Driven Leadership
| Course Dates | Format | Duration | Time Commitment | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19-Apr 2, 2025 | Self-Paced Online (date based) | 6 weeks | 6-8 hours/week | $3,250 |
| May 14-Jun 25, 2025 | Self-Paced Online (date based) | 6 weeks | 6-8 hours/week | $3,250 |
| Jul 23-Sep 3, 2025 | Self-Paced Online (date based) | 6 weeks | 6-8 hours/week | $3,250 |
Tracks
Management and Leadership
Certificate Credits
2.0 EEUs
Topics
- Negotiation & Communication
- Organizations & Leadership
- Strategy & Innovation
Course Highlights
- This course runs over 6 weeks with an estimated 6-8 hours per week of study time
- This course is delivered in our Self-Paced Online format which enables you to participate at your own pace within weekly modules
- You will learn through a variety of formats including: interactive videos, practice quizzes, presentations, assignments, and discussion forums
- You will have access to a Success Adviser who will help you manage your time, and support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have
- You will earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management
Course snapshot
Why attend Inquiry-Driven Leadership?
Inquiry-Driven Leadership focuses on a question-based approach to challenges, enabling you to become both a creative problem-finder and solver by gaining the tools to ask better questions.
Hal Gregersen, the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, said: “Great questions have a catalytic quality — that is, they dissolve barriers to creative thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways.” When problem-solving, the emphasis far too often falls on finding a single correct answer. However, the power of a great question has the potential to ignite a type of innovative thinking that is essential to our globalized, digitized, and disruptive world.
Based on the in-person course, Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Creative Problem Solving, Innovation, and Change, Inquiry-Driven Leadership focuses on a question-based approach to challenges, enabling you to become both a creative problem-finder and solver by gaining the tools to ask better questions. In exploring the conditions and behavioral habits that facilitate productive inquiry, you’ll learn to identify, frame, and solve problems in your own leadership context. You’ll discover how catalytic, or breakthrough questions, can foster transformative change, shift behaviors and beliefs, and generate individual and organizational value.
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Applying to the course
Enrollment for this course is done through the GetSmarter website. You can begin the application process by using the red Enroll Now bar at the bottom of the screen and clicking on the “Go to GetSmarter Site” button.
Upon successful completion of your course, you will earn a certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This course may also count toward MIT Sloan Executive Certificate requirements.
Drawing on lessons from CEOs and innovators who have disrupted and transformed their industries by asking the right questions, you’ll learn to create the conditions that stimulate productive inquiry and drive innovation. As you recognize and navigate the barriers that constrain creative energy, you’ll understand how questions can drive profound change and begin to practice the habits that reinforce continuous questioning. Guided by MIT Sloan faculty, you’ll develop your problem-finding and solving strengths and gain the skills to cultivate a culture of inquiry within yourself, your teams, and your organization.
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This program has been specifically designed for those responsible for solving business problems, such as senior business leaders and middle managers. Consultants, strategists, marketing, innovation and operations professionals who aim to make progress on real business challenges also stand to benefit from the productive tools taught in this program. Across functions and industries, professionals will gain an understanding of why a question-based approach is becoming increasingly relevant in today’s context of uncertainty and disruption.
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| Course Dates | Format | Duration | Time Commitment | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19-Apr 2, 2025 | Self-Paced Online (date based) | 6 weeks | 6-8 hours/week | $3,250 |
| May 14-Jun 25, 2025 | Self-Paced Online (date based) | 6 weeks | 6-8 hours/week | $3,250 |
| Jul 23-Sep 3, 2025 | Self-Paced Online (date based) | 6 weeks | 6-8 hours/week | $3,250 |
Tracks
Management and Leadership
Certificate Credits
2.0 EEUs
Topics
- Negotiation & Communication
- Organizations & Leadership
- Strategy & Innovation