Free Online Course in Agile Leadership Principles from edx

edx platform is offering a free online course in Agile Leadership Principles. Instead of leadership traits, Agile leadership emphasizes facilitation and communication skills. This is teachable and much more powerful. This unique and effective leadership style challenges traditional beliefs in what leadership means. Agile can often challenge project managers in the realm of leadership.Modern society, mindsets, and global competition demand new leadership roles, and leadership qualities all together that empower and motivate the team to new levels of productivity.

What You will Learn:-

1. Overview of agile and the key roles: scrum master, product owner, and agile team member.
2. Building self-organizing teams for agile projects.
3. Facilitating leadership and the power of play.
4. Decision science and human mind heuristics.
5. Negotiation styles and techniques.
6. Managing bias through mindfulness and emotional intelligence (EQ).
7. Lean decision making tools for agile project managers.

Syllabus:-

1. Week 1: The first week of this course jumps right into the traditional notions of leadership, defining the concept, the characteristics of a leader, the science of leadership, and the styles that exist today across master and servant models (Primal Leadership, Team Leadership, Situational Leadership, and Transformational Leadership).
2. Week 2: The second week exposes the reasoning behind servant leadership as the optimal approach and how old philosophies and “modern psychology” reinforce the need for leaders to empower teams. Gamification and the power of play are emphasized to ensure optimal contribution and performance across roles on the scaled Agile teams. Here you'll learn the scrum master's secrets and agile techniques for running highly productive teams.
3. Week 3: The third week explores human decision making, its power and its faults in the form of biases, and how you can train yourself through emotional-social intelligence and mindfulness to go faster by slowing down. Negotiation styles and techniques are also covered requiring self-reflection on how one handles conflict and manages competing, accommodating, avoiding, compromising, and collaborating challenges. These techniques are critical for product owners, scrum masters, and those leading in any capacity.
4. Week 4: The final week focuses on putting these lessons into practice with real-world approaches and tools for managing and facilitating decisions, interactions, and environments for optimal team performance.

Conditions:-

1. You should be good at English.
2. The course is free but if you want to Pursue a Verified Certificate to highlight the knowledge and skills you gain, you should pay $199.00.
3. The course needs 4 weeks with 2–3 hours of work per week.

About edx:-

edX is the trusted platform for education and learning. Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX is home to more than 20 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world and industry-leading companies. As a global nonprofit, edX is transforming traditional education, removing the barriers of cost, location and access. Fulfilling the demand for people to learn on their own terms, edX is reimagining the possibilities of education, providing the highest-quality, stackable learning experiences including the groundbreaking programs. Supporting learners at every stage, whether entering the job market, changing fields, seeking a promotion or exploring new interests, edX delivers courses for curious minds on topics ranging from data and computer science to leadership and communications.

How to Apply:-

To enroll in this course, sign up from here and then click on “Audit This Course” to take it for free or click on “Pursue the Verified Track” to pursue a certificate at the end of the course for $199 USD

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