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Boost Your Leadership Impact Specialization
Harvard Business Review

Boost Your Leadership Impact Specialization

Develop core leadership skills. Learn to manage people, handle conflict, communicate effectively, and grow your influence.

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Intermediate level
Some related experience required
4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Identify your approach as an effective leader, create an inclusive environment, and build the skills to inspire and influence your team

  • Cultivate delegation skills through effective communication, monitoring, feedback, and resolve workplace conflicts constructively

  • Plan, structure, and deliver your presentation by using a step-by-step approach and design principles to tell compelling stories through data

  • Build, leverage, and sustain your networks to achieve goals and apply networking strategies

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October 2025

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Specialization - 4 course series

Lead with Confidence

Lead with Confidence

Course 111 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify your values, vision, and approach as a leader, as an effective leader

  • Accomplish results by cultivating positive relationships and building mutual trust

  • Create an inclusive environment for the team to connect and collaborate, even when everyone isn’t in the same place

  • Determine what to delegate and whom to delegate, while effectively communicating and monitoring the assignment, and providing continuous support

Skills you'll gain

Category: Empowerment
Category: Team Management
Category: Self-Awareness
Category: Verbal Communication Skills
Category: Collaboration
Category: Emotional Intelligence
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Leadership
Category: Virtual Teams
Category: Delegation Skills
Category: Trustworthiness

What you'll learn

  • Resolve conflicts effectively by preparing for difficult conversations, listening well, sharing your perspective, focusing on areas of agreement

  • Coach and encourage team members to resolve their own conflicts and know when and how to intervene

  • Encourage, appreciate, and apply feedback to improve your performance and reach your goals

  • Build trust and provide specific and actionable feedback to your team members

Skills you'll gain

Category: Performance Management
Category: Trustworthiness
Category: Negotiation
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Coaching
Category: Active Listening
Category: Relationship Building
Category: Constructive Feedback
Category: Emotional Intelligence
Category: Team Building
Category: Communication
Category: Conflict Management
Category: Empathy
Communicate with Polish

Communicate with Polish

Course 314 hours

What you'll learn

  • Plan key elements and information for your presentation by identifying your goal, core message, and presenting it in the most effective format

  • Use design principles and convert quantitative and qualitative data into compelling stories in your presentation

  • Prepare for, practice, and deliver strong presentations while managing emotions well, and learn from the process

  • Clarify your purpose, audience, scope, and initial ideas, and organize and structure your first draft of content logically

Skills you'll gain

Category: Storytelling
Category: Communication
Category: Business Writing
Category: Organizational Skills
Category: Verbal Communication Skills
Category: Grammar
Category: Public Speaking
Category: Data Storytelling
Category: Presentations
Category: Concision
Build Your Influence

Build Your Influence

Course 414 hours

What you'll learn

  • Create, assess, and strengthen your network while initiating and developing reciprocal relationships

  • Leverage your networks to achieve personal, team, and organizational goals and apply strategies for sustaining networks

  • Sharpen your persuasion skills to increase your influence and build your credibility by establishing expertise and earning trust

  • Discover how to persuade others by appealing to their logic and emotion, and develop strategies to overcome resistance to your ideas

Skills you'll gain

Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: General Networking
Category: Influencing
Category: Communication Strategies
Category: Relationship Management
Category: Interpersonal Communications
Category: Relationship Building
Category: Rapport Building
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Overcoming Objections
Category: Persuasive Communication
Category: Trustworthiness
Category: Professional Networking
Category: Leadership

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