Digital Leadership – Modern Leadership Training Course – FutureLearn

Gain essential data-driven leadership skills and discover the latest theories for leading agile teams in the digital age This microcredential offers 21st century leaders the opportunity to develop the leadership and management skills required to lead engaged productive and high-achieving teams in business today and into the future Youll discover new leadership strategies and methodologies that build on traditional leadership models incorporating the new challenges and opportunities impacting leaders in the age of data and digital technology Boost your knowledge of data driven leadership The impact of the 21st centurys fourth industrial revolution means that many traditional leadership research and models are now outdated Traditional leadership training encourages leaders to be responsible for analysing all information and then to make decisions This course shows how modern leadership models can be more agile and responsive by sharing data analysis and decision-making Analyse and evaluate traditional models of leadership and management On this microcredential youll delve into traditional leadership models and ask how these traditional theories of leadership can be critiqued in light of how businesses operate today Youll discover decision science tools for organising and managing data as a leader and learn how to apply lean principles to the integration and optimisation of information Youll also be introduced to traditional management science concepts and learn why their data-based origins mean theyre still relevant today Discover new strategic leadership planning tools As you consider traditional leadership planning tools youll familiarise yourself with the planning paradox whereby the efficiency of 20th Century planning tools like PESTLE and SWOT analyses are limited in dynamic 21st century contexts Starting with early commentators like Henry Minzberg youll trace critical approaches to leadership and strategy using more exploratory tools such as Cynefin Youll discover how to interpret data as a leader using your lecturers own data driven strategic decision making tool and practice using the SWAN model as well as military tools used for dynamic planning Explore efficient and agile leadership structures As agile leadership continues to dominate 21st Century organisations and decision-making youll identify how agile models differ from 20th century hierarchies Youll evaluate how a move towards agile working is affecting modern leadership and collective decision-making before learning how agility can be coded into any organisation Using real-world case studies youll explore the differences between agility and efficiency and assess how to balance this dichotomy when applying agile and responsive leadership practices Assess your identity and role as a leader in data rich environments The final sections of the course explore how holding on to a traditional view of leadership can deter leaders from identifying with data skills to their own detriment Youll consider how this can lead to data skills being siloed from leadership and decision making as well as leaders being overwhelmed with data instead of harnessing the power of collaborative decision making Youll be encouraged to explore the role data has to play in your future as a leader and define how your leadership experiences match the evolving digital workplace Learn with experts at the University of Glasgows triple-accredited business school This microcredential is offered by the business school at top Russell Group university the University of Glasgow Youll learn with esteemed lecturer Dr Matt Offord a former Naval Officer with extensive experience leading agile 21st century teams in high technology and data rich environments Dr Offord has also published research into agile information- and data-based leadership behaviours and informal decision-making networks and is a regular speaker on data-driven leadership and communication at the UK Defence Academy Data-driven decision making Data-driven leadership Agile leadership Building an agile team Managing information supply chains Leadership strategies Leadership management Leadership training Gain essential data-driven leadership skills and discover the latest theories for leading agile teams in the digital age Critically evaluate with particular reference to digital data traditional leadership models Distinguish between agile and efficient leadership structures and their relationship to data Analyse the role of data volume quality and timeliness in decision making Analyse and assess leadership narratives and whether they help or hinder modern leaders in a digital age Describe and evaluate the role of collective decision making and agile teams