Online Course from Google in association with Coursera: Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence

Google in collaboration with Coursera is offering an online course titled (Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence). Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. 

Course duration:

Approx. 19 hours to complete. 

Course modules:

• Week 1: Resonant Leadership and the Neuroscience Behind It

Great leaders moves people through resonant relationships. Resonant relationships occur when the leader and the people around them are in sync or in tune. These relationships are characterized by the shared experience of vision and hope, compassion and caring, and mindfulness. and how people can be inspired to change and inspire change in others. 

• Week 2: Renewal As an Antidote to Chronic Stress

We examine the effects of emotional contagion, both positive and negative on relationship. We examine the psychological and physiological process with which our bodies and minds experience stress and how it hinders openness to new ideas, people and emotions. Chronic annoying stress causes cognitive, emotional and perceptual impairment. We examine the Parasympathetic Nervous System, the bodies only way to ameliorate the effects of stress and renew. We examine how hope/vision, compassion, mindfulness and playfulness both build resonant relationships and enable us to renew.

• Week 3: Emotional Intelligence and Its Link to Leadership

Emotional, social and cognitive intelligence competencies are the drivers of effective leadership, management and professional jobs. We review the research in private, public and non-profit sector jobs in many countries of the world.

• Week 4: Inspiring and Motivating Sustained Development, Growth and Learning

Intentional Change Theory and decades of longitudinal research showing how it creates sustained, desired change is introduced. Learners examine who and how people have helped them grow in the past and link it to future possibilities. 

• Week 5: Coaching with Compassion to Inspire Sustained Learning and Development & Peer Coaching: With a Little Help from my Friends 

This week we examine the PEA and the NEA in depth in terms of emotional, relational and neurological factors. We examine the type of conversations that inspire the PEA in others and why we call this coaching with compassion.e 

• Week 6: Inspiring Change through Hope and Vision 

This week we explore all of the five the phases of Intentional Change Theory in depth: how we distinguished the Ideal Self from the Ought Self. We examine life and career stages, how to know when you are in mid-life crises.

• Week 7: The Multilevel Nature of Sustained, Desired Change

Following on from last week's modules, this week we turn to change at the team and organizational level. We outline how resonant leadership and the establishment of and membership in social identity groups can facilitate change in dyads, teams, organizations, communities, countries and even global change. We will review recent research documenting the effectiveness of developing shared vision.

• Week 8: The Real Self and Learning Agenda 

In our final week, we examine the remaining elements of Intentional Change Theory: drawing a distinction between The Real Self and Faux Self, establishing a learning agenda, and emphasizing the value of experimentation and practice in shaping and re-shaping our visions. We conclude with a review of the course and the summary of the materials covered to date.

Benefits offered:

1. Coursera offers 100% online learning from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. For access to the readings and lectures only, enroll with audit mode.
2. Each course is like an interactive textbook, featuring pre-recorded videos, quizzes, and projects. Connect with thousands of other learners to debate ideas, discuss course material, and get help mastering concepts.
3. When you successfully complete the course assignments, you receive a shareable electronic Course Certificate that you can add to your resume and LinkedIn.

About Google:

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.

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