Inquiry-Driven Leadership Online Short Course
Cambridge, USA
DURATION
6 Weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
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EARLIEST START DATE
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TUITION FEES
USD 2,800
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Introduction
Generate new business insights and drive innovation by asking the right questions.
Asking the right questions has the power to dissolve barriers to creative thinking: it can move the emphasis away from finding a single correct answer to creating larger positive change and greater organizational value.
Asking the right questions has the power to dissolve the barriers to creative thinking: It can move the emphasis away from finding a single correct answer and on to creating larger positive change and greater organizational value.
The Inquiry-Driven Leadership online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management teaches you to adopt a questioning approach to effectively identify and solve organizational problems. You’ll learn about the conditions and behavioral habits that facilitate the space for asking better questions, and develop the ability to find, frame, and solve challenges within your context.
By learning to facilitate productive inquiry with a question-based mindset, you’ll uncover new business insights and opportunities for innovation. Discover the catalytic questions that foster transformative change, shift behaviors and beliefs, and generate individual and organizational value.
Gain new insights and drive innovation by asking the right questions
This MIT Sloan online short course is delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter. Learn from industry thought leaders as you drive the identification and solving of business problems.
An online education that sets you apart
This MIT Sloan online program is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter. Join a growing community of global professionals, and benefit from the opportunity to:
- Develop new competencies and earn valuable recognition from an international selection of universities, entirely online and in your own time frame.
- Enjoy a personalized, people-mediated online learning experience that supports you every step of the way.
- Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.
Why choose GetSmarter?
GetSmarter, powered by 2U, is an online learning expert with over 10 years of experience in developing premium online short courses from the world’s leading universities and institutions. We are powered by 2U to support you in unlocking your potential through life-changing learning with an immersive and high-touch experience.
We deliver market-led courses that equip working professionals with the expertise required to upskill, reskill or kickstart a completely new career. Through a data-driven approach, we analyze future skills requirements and ensure all courses address this need. We ensure that leading universities and institutions are your expert guides and our people, technology, and resources are your engine – together we power more than just education, we power your potential.
Ideal Students
This course is for you if:
- You want to develop the interpersonal skills needed for increased growth and performance in your current role
- You’re looking to develop your personal and professional leadership skills to work toward an executive position
- You want to build a practical toolkit that can be immediately applied to identify and solve problems in your professional or personal context
Program Outcome
You'll walk away with:
- The skills to create a questioning culture that finds, frames and solves problems, uncovering new opportunities and overcoming business challenges.
- The ability to recognize and dissolve the barriers restricting your organization’s creative capacity to gain new insights and drive innovation.
- An understanding of the types of productive questions that drive positive change and deliver greater individual and organizational value.
Curriculum
Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work your way through the following modules:
- Module 1: Appreciating the Power of Catalytic Questions
Explore how to apply a question-based approach to challenges in your personal and professional life. - Module 2: Creating the Conditions for Questions to Flourish
Learn how to create and benefit from the conditions that stimulate catalytic questions. - Module 3: Building the Habits of Productive Inquiry
Explore habits and questioning methods that promote productive inquiry. - Module 4: Understanding and Working Through the Barriers to Inquiry
Recognize how structural, cognitive, and behavioral barriers constrain your questioning capacity. - Module 5: Building the Questioning Capacity of a Team or Organization
Learn how to model, enable, and motivate a question-driven approach in your team or organization. - Module 6: Changing the World by Changing The Questions
Investigate how you can continue your question-centric approach to challenges beyond yourself and the program.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.
Manage your time
GetSmarter's learning model is designed to help you, as a working professional, improve your skills without compromising on work and family responsibilities. The course work is broken up into weekly, manageable bite-sized modules, with incremental deadlines, designed to help you pace yourself over the duration of the course and allow you the legroom to work when it suits you best.
At the beginning of each module, you'll be presented with the course content and assignments necessary for completion. You also have access to your Success Adviser who will help you manage your time, and support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have.
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