University of Colorado Boulder - Leading Oneself with Self-Knowledge
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Leading Oneself with Self-Knowledge 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 Self-Knowledge at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a Certificate upon completion
Leading Oneself with Self-Knowledge at Coursera Course details
- In this course, you will come to understand the importance of three forms of awareness, craft a personal identity, gain understanding of how you work best, learn to be strategic with your time and energy, manage cognitive biases, mental models and better understand your worldview
- 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 Self-Knowledge at Coursera Curriculum
Increasing Awareness Leads to Understanding
Meet your Professor (for new learners)
Course Summary
Self-Awareness
Situational Awareness
Social Awareness
Welcome and Where to Find Help
About the Leadership Excellence Arete Workbook
Download the Leadership Excellence Arete Workbook
Workbook Exercise: Journal 1.1 - The Importance of Self-Awareness
What is Self-Awareness and Why is it Important?
Increase your Self-Awareness with One Simple Fix
My Stroke of Insight (optional)
10 Things You Didn't Know About Yourself
Workbook Exercise: Take the DiSC personality test
Workbook Exercise: Self-Awareness Questions
Workbook Exercise: Journal 1.2 - Seeing the Big Picture
Becoming a Wise Leader: Cultivating Your Situation Awareness
Developing Adaptive Expertise for Navigating New Terrain
Strategic Leadership in a VUCA World
Situational Awareness and Leadership for Personal and Organizational Safety
Workbook Exercise: Journal 1.3 - We are Social Creatures
How to Increase Your Social Intelligence
Social Skills Training for Adults: 10 Best Activities & Worksheets
10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation
Unlock the Companion Workbook!
Week 1 Knowledge Check
Exploring Strengths to be Our Best
Strengths
Superpowers
Workbook Exercise: Journal 2.1 - Identifying your Strengths
What Are Your Strengths?
VIA Character Value Assessment
Focus on your Strengths, Focus on Success
The Unapologetic Beauty of Focusing on Your Strengths
Workbook Exercise: Identify Strengths and Weaknesses
Workbook Exercise: Journal 2.2 - What is Your Superpower
How to Find your Superpower
10 Questions To Help You Find and Boost Your Superpowers
Week 2 Knowledge Check
Developing Personal Identity for Intentional Change
Intentional Change Theory
Other Views of Self
Alter Ego
Workbook Exercise: Journal 3.1 - Whose life is it anyway?
The 5 Stages of Intentional Change Theory
An Overview of Intentional Change from a Complexity Perspective
The Ideal Self as the Driver of Intentional Change
What Brain Science is Teaching Us about Leadership
Workbook Exercise: Define Your Ideal Self
Workbook Exercise: Journal 3.2 - Who are You?
Mind: Personal Identity (The Narrative Self) - (Optional)
The Battle Between the Ideal Self and the Ought Self
The Pitfalls of the Narrative Self
The Two Kinds of Stories We Tell Ourselves
What is The 'Self'? The 3 Layers of Your Identity
How to Connect With Your Future Self (Optional)
The Psychology of Your Future Self
How Thinking About 'Future You' Can Build a Happier Life
Workbook Exercise: Narrative Arc of Your Life Exercise
The 'Batman Effect': How Having an Alter Ego Empowers You
How to Create an Alter Ego
Workbook Exercise: Create your Alter Ego
Week 3 Knowledge Check
Becoming Strategic With Energy to Be More Effective
Managing Energy
Timing Matters
Workbook Exercise: Journal 4.1 - Our most precious resource
The Way We're Working Isn't Working
The Secret to Better Work: Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
Workbook Exercise: Perform an Energy Audit
Workbook Exercise: Journal 4.2 - A Typical Day
Workbook Exercise: A Typical Day
The Importance of Timing
Dan Pink on When
7 Secrets of Perfect Timing
Workbook Exercise: Determine When You Work Best
Week 4 Knowledge Check
Understanding How Cognitive Patterns Drive Behavior
Mental Models
Biases
Worldview
Outro
Workbook Exercise: Journal 5.1 - Our Cognitive Shortcuts
Thinking in Mental Models
What is a Schema?
The Role of a Schema in Psychology
How Filter Bubbles Distort Reality: Everything You Need to Know (optional)
Workbook Exercise: Journal 5.2 - Are you biased?
How to Think about 'Implicit Bias'
Implicit Bias Video Series
Cognitve Bias Codex
Workbook Exercise: Determine Your Predominant Biases
Workbook Exercise: Journal 5.3 - How Do You See the World?
Mental Models: How to Train Your Brain to Think in New Ways
What's your Worldview?
Workbook Exercise: Understanding your Worldview
Psychology of Worldviews (optional)
Week 5 Knowledge Check
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Student Forum
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