Mobilizing the Coalition for Action
Course ID: ILRSM512 React to change with an appropriate leadership style. Lead a coalition to manage the change and ensure successful implementation. |
Description
In most organizations, it is no longer sufficient to identify what needs to get done, and how it should get done. A leader must have the skills to implement his or her initiative and to overcome the dynamics of opposition and resistance that exist in every organization.
This course is designed to help learners:
- Apply the leadership style appropriate to the situation
- Put a change coalition into place
- React to changing conditions in the organization to ensure successful implementation
- Anticipate and prepare for the future
Who Should Enroll in This Course?
This course is essential for department heads, team leaders, and managers working at all levels of organizations in virtually any industry sector who wish to understand the process of organizational analysis and change.Enrollment
To register, contact an Enrollment Counselor at info@ecornell.com or 1-866-326-7635 (+1-607-330-3200 from outside the United States).Certificate programs are eligible for eCornell Payment Plans. Discounts are available for military personnel, veterans, and Cornell University Alumni. eCornell programs are not eligible for financial aid or federal Pell Grants. Contact an enrollment counselor for more information.
March 14, 2012
April 11, 2012
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Certificate Information
This course can be applied toward the following certificates:CEUs
HRCI Recertification
Project Management Institute Professional Development Units
This course qualifies for 7.00 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) for Professional Project Managers (PMPs) seeking ongoing education and professional development for continuing certification. eCornell is a Global Registered Education Provider of PMI. PDUs are designated as Category 3.
Additional Information
Course Format
eCornell takes a problem-based approach to learning, and our courses are built around realistic case studies and scenarios. All courses are self-paced, and are facilitated by an eCornell instructor, who leads the online discussions and is available to answer any questions about the course content.
This course contains the following modules:
- The Essentials of Coalition Leadership
- Solidifying your coalition
- Managing differences among coalition members
- Diffusing your ideas and expanding your network
- Pitfalls to Avoid and Leading for the Long Term
- Strategies for preventing your coalition from becoming insular
- Avoiding complacency and differentiating your coalition
- Negotiating changing conditions and uncertainties
- Political analysts, consensus builders, and politically competent leaders
Benefits to the Learner
After completing this course, participants will be able to:- Solidify their coalition
- Map differences among coalition members
- Propagate ideas and diversify their network
- Identify the two dimensions of coalition leadership
- Avoid traps of insular coalitions
- Recognize and respond to changing conditions within the organization
- Employ a Change Outcome Matrix and respond to different outcomes
- Effect ongoing and proactive change
Authoring Faculty
Samuel B. Bacharach, Ph.D., McKelvey-Grant ProfessorSponsoring School
Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor RelationsTotal Learning Time
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