University of Colorado Boulder - Leading Oneself with Personal Excellence
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Leading Oneself with Personal Excellence at Coursera Overview
Duration | 37 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Leading Oneself with Personal Excellence at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a Certificate upon completion
Leading Oneself with Personal Excellence at Coursera Course details
- In this course, you will describe how and why to set goals and create action plans, increase your focus and reduce distraction, harness motivation and flow state for performance, build self-efficacy and agency, and redefine your relationship with stress, anxiety, fear and adversity
- The ME-EM is designed to help engineers, scientists, and technical professionals move into leadership and management roles in the engineering and technical sectors
Leading Oneself with Personal Excellence at Coursera Curriculum
Pursuit of Happiness
Meet your Professor (for new learners)
Course Summary
Happiness Models
Hedonic Treadmill
The Happiness Paradox
Welcome and Where to Find Help
About the Leadership Excellence Arete Workbook
Download the Leadership Excellence Arete Workbook
Workbook Exercise: Journal 1.1 - Pursuing Happiness
How to Measure Happiness: Hedonia vs. Eudaimonia
Working Your Way to Happiness
Workbook Exercise: Wheel of Life
Workbook Exercise: Journal 1.2 - The Treadmill
The Hedonic Treadmill - Are We Forever Chasing Rainbows?
Workbook Exercise: Journal - An Alternative to Happiness
Pursuing Happiness Can Make us Unhappy
The Pursuit of Happiness Can End in Pain
Why Pursuing Happiness Makes Us Miserable
Embracing Adversity to Forge Happiness
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Week 1 Knowledge Check
Staying on Course
Focus and Distraction
Instant Gratification
Workbook Exercise: Journal 2.1 - Focus and Distraction
7 Useful Tips for Improving Your Mental Focus
The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers
Workbook Exercise: Journal 2.2 - Is Social Media a Problem
13 Science-backed Tips to Stay Focused and Avoid Distractions
Quit Social Media
Workbook Exercise: Journal 2.3 - Instant Gratification Monkey
How to Avoid the Temptations of Immediate Gratification
The Marshmallow Test
Instant Gratification and Its Dark Side
Week 2 Knowledge Check
Keep Moving Forward
Motivation
Flow State
Procrastination
Workbook Exercise: Journal 3.1 - Elusive Motivation
Human Reward Pursuit: From Rudimentary to Higher-Level Functions
Workbook Exercise: Journal 3.2 - Finding Flow
Flow Theory in Psychology: 13 Key Findings & Examples
How To Get Into The Flow State
Workbook Exercise: Journal 3.3 - Taming Procrastination
Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator
Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)
Procrastination Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Week 3 Knowledge Check
Steering the Ship
Agency
Self Efficacy
Personal Accountability
Planning
Goals
Workbook Exercise: Journal 4.1 - Steering the Ship
The Skill of Self-Confidence
Self-Efficacy Theory
Self Efficacy and Why Believing in Yourself Matters
Understanding Personal Agency
Imposter Syndrome: Forging Your Personal Unique Value Prop (optional)
Overcoming Anxiety Through Personal Agency
Defining Sovereignty
Workbook Exercise: Locus of Control Assessment
Workbook Exercise: Journal 4.2 - Taking Ownership
Extreme Ownership
Accountability vs. Responsibility
Workbook Exercise: Assertiveness Assessment
Workbook Exercise: Journal 4.3 - Plotting a Course
Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead
WOOP, There It Is! 4 Steps To Achieve Your Goals
Workbook Exercise: WOOP Kit
Week 4 Knowledge Check
Navigating the Storms of Life
Psychological Resilience
Perseverance and Endurance
Mental Toughness
Outro Video
Workbook Exercise: Journal 5.1 - Bouncing Back
Mindsets That Promote Resilience
Forging Mettle Podcast: Shilo Brooks - Comfort is Not the Highest Good
Workbook Exercise: Journal 5.2 - Staying the Course
Grit: the Power of Passion and Perseverance
Perseverance in Psychology: 4 Activities to Improve Perseverance
Grit at Work (optional)
Adversity Quotient: A New Paradigm in Management to Explore
Self-Control and Grit: Related but Separable Determinants of Success
Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals (optional)
Grit Scale Assessment
Workbook Exercise: Journal 5.3 - Preparing for the Storm
Forging Mettle Podcast: Doug Strycharczyk - What is mental toughness?
How to Be Mentally Strong: 14 Ways to Build Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness Wheel
Week 5 Knowledge Check
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