Executive Leadership

Babson College via edX Professional Certificate

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$248.00
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8 weeks, 4-6 hours a week

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In today's world of business, executives must focus on more than near-term results to generate sustained growth. CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs, and executive leaders must think consciously about decision-making to lead their companies to long-term success. This Professional Certificate in executive leadership, brought to you by Babson College, the #1 school in Entrepreneurship (U.S. News & World Report), will teach you how to consciously view strategic challenges, formulate solutions, and take action.

Research shows that companies that embody the principles of Conscious Capitalism substantially outperform the market over the long term, while simultaneously creating economic and social value for all stakeholders. This program will teach you the pillars of Conscious Capitalism and how you can implement them while you lead your organization.

This program is designed for anyone who has pictured themselves in the corner office, wants to report directly to a CEO, or has the goal of consulting with or advising a CEO. It will give you insight on how to mentor and lead intentionally through the principles of Conscious Capitalism and will expose the path from individual contributor to the top job.

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Courses under this program:
Course 1: Rise to Leadership: Become a CEO

Do you have what it takes to be a CEO? This course explores the key competencies that make the best CEOs effective leaders.

Course 2: Conscious Capitalism
Explore ways to cultivate economic, personal, cultural, ecological, and social value simultaneously with Conscious Capitalism.

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If you’re ambitious, it’s natural to aspire to be the leader ofan organization. A lot of people in business want to be a CEO; to lead and shape an organization. Many, however, quickly discover that ambition alone is not enough to achieve this goal. Some ascend to theC-suite or leave to start their own venture, only to discover that leading a business - evenone's own - requires not just determination but a number of unanticipated skills.

If you’ve pictured yourself in the corner office, want to report directly to a CEO, or have the goal of consulting with or advising a CEO, this course will benefit you.

The course exploressix competencies of a successful CEO:
- Getting results. The ability to achieve ambitious operating goals by working at all levels of an organization;
- Creating culture. The ability to articulate core values – such as customer value creation, integrity, and respect for the individual, win employee buy-in of the values, and create processes to ensure that culture is used in hiring and promotion decisions;
- Attracting talent. The ability to attract and motivate a highly talented team that can set ambitious goals and achieve them;
- Driving innovation. The ability to create an environment that encourages talented employees to generate new ideas that spur revenue growth;.
- Formulating strategy. The ability to analyze a company’s future opportunities and to develop and execute strategies to capture those opportunities; and
- Communicating with stakeholders. The ability to communicate effectively with the board, investors, and communities.
An initial objective assessment of strengths and weaknesses will help you decide if you’re a “natural” CEO, if you can become a CEO by improving existing skills, or if you should pursue other options. The skills learned in this course will also benefit individual contributors and those who manage people and teams. It offers a greater understanding of how a CEO thinks and acts - insights that can help anyone be more effective ina job.

This course will give you insight into how CEOs view strategic challenges, formulate solutions, and take action - and expose the path from individual contributor to the top job. Through case studies, group challenges, and feedback from current CEOs, you’ll explore six key skills that make an effective CEO, and form the foundation of their strategic work.
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Research shows that companies that embody the principles of Conscious Capitalism substantially outperform the market over the long term, while simultaneously creating economic and social value for all stakeholders. By learning the theoretical underpinnings and practical implications of this approach to business, you will rethink why your organization exists and acknowledge your company's role in the interdependent global marketplace and ecosystem.

In this course, you will critically examine the evidence on the impact of practicing conscious capitalism on the tangible and intangible well-being of all stakeholders. This begins with an in-depth look at the four key tenets of conscious capitalism: higher purpose, stakeholder orientation, conscious leadership, and conscious culture.

Through discussions and exercises, you and your global peers will develop an understanding and appreciation for systems thinking, and you'll learn why it is an integral discipline contributing to the practice of Conscious Capitalism. You'll explore ways to transform a conventional business into a conscious business. Finally, you will have the opportunity to practice the fundamental elements of personal transformation that must accompany any effort to implement Conscious Capitalism.