Leadership in an Exponentially Changing World (self-paced online)
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NEW This online short course provides a step-by-step guide to the 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework, developed by Faculty Director Deborah Ancona and her colleagues at MIT. The framework provides key insights into the skills required for effective leadership.
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Leadership in an Exponentially Changing World (self-paced online) Certificate Track: Management and Leadership Location:
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$2,800 Program Days (for ACE Credit) 2
In a world that is changing exponentially, the skills needed to lead have evolved. In order to manage teams more effectively and become a successful leader, professionals need to identify their personal leadership style and adapt their approaches. A 21st century construct for leading requires leveraging others – both inside and outside a team and organization – to successfully address and overcome organizational challenges, and drive innovation.
The Leadership in an Exponentially Changing World online short course provides a step-by- step guide to the 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework, developed by Faculty Director Deborah Ancona and her colleagues at MIT. The framework provides key insights into the skills required for effective leadership. This course is based on our in-person program, Transforming Your Leadership Strategy.
It also explores how leaders can understand different situations, build relationships, create a compelling vision for a business, enhance credibility, and invent processes to achieve that vision and respond to change.
The program further examines how to apply the 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework within X-teams, externally focused teams who pull support and resources from across an organization and outside of it too.
The curriculum exposes you to the perspectives and expertise of a variety of knowledgeable and experienced leaders. You’ll use this information to develop your leadership capabilities further, and investigate how you can move your team or organization forward.
You’ll first discover your leadership signature and choose an organizational challenge or opportunity to address using the 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework. Next, you’ll explore sensemaking, a process that helps leaders better understand and react to their environment. You’ll learn ways to create and communicate your vision, lead with integrity, and implement structures to mobilize individuals and address challenges. During the course, you’ll reflect on the potential of distributed leadership and X-teams for creating high-performing teams that are externally oriented and flexible.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN This online program integrates rich, interactive media such as videos, infographics, and e-learning activities as well as traditional didactic components such as traditional written study guides. There are also opportunities for collaborative learning through discussion forums. The following modules contribute to the holistic approach your learning path takes:
ORIENTATION MODULE: WELCOME TO YOUR ONLINE CAMPUS (one week) You’ll be welcomed with a personal call and introduced to your online learning and technical support network. You will then begin connecting with fellow students while exploring the tools of your Online Campus, and will be alerted to key milestones in the learning path, and be able to review how your results will be calculated and distributed.
You’ll be required to complete your student profile, confirm your certificate delivery address, and submit a digital copy of your passport/identity document.
MODULE 1: YOUR LEADERSHIP SIGNATURE Investigate your leadership signature and choose an organizational challenge or opportunity that you want to address using the 4-CAPS+ Leadership Framework.
MODULE 2: UNDERSTANDING YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT Analyze the impact of sensemaking for effective leadershipvin various organizational contexts.
MODULE 3: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN AND ACROSS ORGANIZATIONS Decide how to integrate sensemaking and relating into your leadership approach.
MODULE 4: CREATING A COMPELLING PICTURE OF THE FUTURE Test ways to create and communicate a clear and inspiring vision for the future.
MODULE 5: INVENTING YOUR WAY TO A NEW FUTURE AND BUILDING CREDIBILITY Evaluate how to move forward by inventing structures and processes and building credibility.
MODULE 6: X-TEAMS AND YOUR LEADERSHIP JOURNEY Consider how you can create high-performing teams and develop as a leader.
This executive program integrates rich, interactive media such as videos, infographics, and e-learning activities as well as traditional didactic components such as written study guides (course notes). There are opportunities for collaborative learning through discussion forums to provide participants with a complete overview of the field of IoT in business contexts, including emerging and innovative topics.
The program begins with an Orientation to welcome you to the Online Campus. During Orientation, you will explore your analysis environment, become comfortable with your new online classroom, meet your Success Team, and get to know your fellow classmates. Watch the online campus experience video >
After Orientation, the course is broken down into six manageable, weekly modules, designed to accelerate your learning process through diverse learning activities:
Work through your downloadable and online instructional material
Interact with your peers and learning facilitators through weekly class-wide forums and small group discussions
Enjoy a wide range of interactive content, including video lectures, infographics, live polls, and more
Investigate rich, real-world case studies
Apply what you learn each week to quizzes and ongoing project submissions, culminating in the development of your own IoT roadmap
Each module is released weekly, allowing a flexible but structured approach to learning. You’ll be supported as you engage in individual activities and group discussions, ensuring you feel confident to submit your best work at each weekly deadline. The time commitment is estimated at 6-8 hours per week, self-paced and entirely online.
SUCCESS TEAM Throughout the course of the program, you will be supported by a team of professionals.
Head Facilitator: A subject expert who’ll guide you through content-related challenges
Success Manager: Your one-on-one support available during MIT hours (9am - 5pm EST) to resolve technical and administrative challenges
Global Success Team: Available 24/7 to solve your tech-related and administrative queries and concerns
This online program is designed for working professionals looking to improve their leadership capabilities within their organization. It is therefore beneficial to business leaders who want to expand their current leadership knowledge to enable them to facilitate innovation and adaptation, and drive high-performance teams. It is also useful to mid-level and senior managers who want to engage with other professionals and develop their ability to lead teams more effectively to meet business objectives. Aspiring leaders will develop the confidence needed to demonstrate that they have the skills to lead.
Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.
Seley Distinguished Professor of Management Professor of Organization Studies Founding Faculty Director of the MIT Leadership Center
Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, a Professor of Organization Studies, and the Founder of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Her pioneering research into how successful teams operate has highlighted the critical importance of managing outside, as well as inside, the team’s boundary. This research directly led to the concept of X-Teams as a vehicle for driving innovation within large organizations. Ancona’s work also focuses on the concept of distributed leadership and on the development of research-based tools, practices, and teaching/coaching models that enable organizations to foster creative leadership at every level.
She is the author of the book, X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Harvard Business School Press) and the related article, “In Praise of the Incomplete Leader” (Harvard Business Review). In addition to X-Teams, her studies of team performance have also been published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and the Sloan Management Review. Her previous book, Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes (South-Western College Publishing), centers on the skills and processes needed in today’s diverse and changing organization. Ancona has served as a consultant on leadership and innovation to companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bose, Takeda, Li & Fung, OCP, Accenture, ASA and has served on the Board of the Penn Graduate School of Education and the working group of the Canadian Council of Academies.
Ancona holds a BA and an MS in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in management from Columbia University.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
In order to complete a course, you’ll need a current email account and access to a computer and the internet. You should be familiar with using a computer and accessing the internet, as you may need to read documents in Adobe PDF Reader, view Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, and read and create documents in Microsoft Word. Installing Adobe Flash Player will give you full access to certain course content, such as interactive infographics. However, you’ll still have access to this content in the form of a downloadable PDF transcript if you’d prefer not to use Flash.
We recommend that you use Google Chrome as your internet browser when accessing the Online Campus. Although this is not a requirement, we have found that this browser performs best for ease of access to course material. This browser can be downloaded here.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Certain courses may require additional software and resources. These additional software and resource requirements will be communicated to you upon registration and/or at the beginning of the course. Please note that Google, Vimeo, and YouTube maybe used in our course delivery, and if these services are blocked in your jurisdiction, you may have difficulty in accessing course content. Please check with a Course Consultant before registering for this course if you have any concerns about this affecting your experience with the Online Campus.
MIT Sloan Executive Education is collaborating with online education provider GetSmarter to create a new class of learning experience - one that is higher-touch, intimate, and personalized for the working professional. By working with GetSmarter, we are able to broaden access beyond our on-campus offerings in a collaborative and engaging format that stays true to the quality of MIT Sloan and MIT as a whole. GetSmarter's people-driven approach to online learning—centered around the importance of human support—has resulted in an aggregate completion rate consistently above 90% serving more than 48,000 participants over almost a decade.
Registration for this program is done through GetSmarter.
FAST FACTS
6 weeks(excluding orientation)
Entirely online
Self-paced learning
6-8 hours/week*
*The recommended weekly time commitment for core content is 4-5 hours, taking into account the busy lifestyles of working professionals, with an additional 2-3 hours recommended for non-compulsory weekly extension activities, should you have the time. Each module is released weekly, allowing a flexible but structured approach to learning. You’ll be supported as you engage in individual activities and group discussions, ensuring you feel confident to submit your best work at each weekly deadline.
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