Resilience & Leadership: Design, Development, & Integration is the third course of the ‘Resilience Engineering and Leadership in Crisis’ specialization. This course emphasizes the importance of practices like organizational learning and adaptive change management amid uncertainty. Resilience engineering principles and strategies are combined with critical leadership knowledge and skills essential to navigating unanticipated catastrophic disruptions. Learners will integrate selective assignments from the previous courses in this specialization (Resilience & Leadership: Concepts, Definitions, & Frameworks, and Resilience & Leadership: Tools, Methods, & Applications) to construct a comprehensive resilience report using the project scenario they identified in Course 1.
This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (ME-EM) degree offered on the Coursera platform. The ME-EM is designed to help engineers, scientists, and technical professionals move into leadership and management roles in the engineering and technical sectors. With performance-based admissions and no application process, the ME-EM is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience. Learn more about the ME-EM program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/me-engineering-management-boulder.
Resilience & Leadership: Design, Development, & Integration
University of Colorado Boulder via Coursera
Overview
Syllabus
- Learning, Adaptive Change, and Adaptive Management
- Welcome to Resilience & Leadership: Design, Development, & Integration. This is the last course of the Resilience Engineering and Leadership in Crisis specialization. In this first module, you'll examine organizational learning in relation to crisis events and introduce the concepts of single- and double-loop feedback and integration during the learning process. We’ll also review the role of organizational learning and building resilience. The principles of adaptive change are introduced with an overview of Panarchy or nested adaptive cycles. Finally, Adaptive Management (part 1 of 2) is introduced as an alternative framework for navigating uncertainty in the natural environment.
- Crisis Management Trends, Adaptive Change, and Adaptive Management
- Leading trends in crisis management relevant to the internal and external landscape of the organization are reviewed in this module, to provide an outlook for moving forward. Societal and cultural dynamics continue to be prominent factors in effective crisis management. You'll learn how cross-domain collaboration and consideration for transboundary impacts can strengthen and expand the ability to effectively prepare and respond to crisis events. By the end of this module, you'll understand that complexity and uncertainty contribute to the process and application of adaptive management principles and initiatives.
- COVID-19, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development
- In Module 3, we’ll consider the impact of COVID-19 on critical infrastructure resilience. Next, we’ll take a fresh look at climate change and some of the difficult challenges it presents. Lastly, we'll look at sustainable development as a multidimensional endeavor involving systems of systems across local, regional, national, and global scales.
- Human & Organizational Resilience, Vulnerability, and Sustainable Change
- In Module 4, you’ll look at human and organizational resilience in the context of critical infrastructure resilience. We’ll consider how human and organizational capacities to respond and recover from unanticipated events can enhance or diminish the resilience of CI systems. With these considerations in mind, you’ll examine how human choices can impact vulnerability and exposure to disruptions. Finally, we’ll look at an alternative framework for assessing the capacity to respond to unanticipated events. The generic nature of the framework is suitable to address a wide range of different types of disruptions.
- Integrating Resilience Engineering with Leadership in Crisis
- In this last instructional module, you’ll explore concepts and frameworks for integrating resilience engineering with principles and practices of leadership in crisis. First, we’ll look at an initiative to identify and track innovative approaches to sustainable and resilient infrastructure. Then we examine a conceptual framework for linking psychological human development and resilience with critical infrastructure resilience. Complexity leadership is explored in the context of complex adaptive systems along with a set of practical principles and practices for implementation. Resilience thinking is presented as a method for working with socio-ecological systems and extended to socio-technical systems. Finally, you'll discover that leadership in crisis is considered to be an ongoing practice and a new norm regarding conventional concepts of leadership.
Taught by
John E. Thomas
