The Path of Moral Leadership
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The Path of Moral Leadership at PlusAcumen Overview
Duration | 9 weeks |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Schedule type | Self paced |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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The Path of Moral Leadership at PlusAcumen Highlights
- Connect and learn with a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives
- Experience new, inspiring, and immediately applicable practices and skills
- Learn through inspiring videos, thought-provoking discussions, and live virtual events
The Path of Moral Leadership at PlusAcumen Course details
- Redefine success and practice moral imagination in your life and enterprise
- Converse across lines of difference by listening, exploring identity, and holding opposing values in tension
- Avoid conformity traps and understand the best of what markets and partnerships offer
- Recognize the power of practicing courage and sharing your story while amplifying those of others
- Find ways to connect and embrace the difficulty of creating positive change, the 'beautiful struggle'
- Join Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO of Acumen, along with hundreds of other social entrepreneurs, social innovators, and leaders in a collaborative course that will help one make a difference
- In this course, students will access the most important principles Acumen has learned from more than 20 years working with leaders who are breaking boundaries and improving how the poor, the vulnerable, and the earth are treated
- There is no action too small, and there is no time like right now
- Students don't need to be a social entrepreneur, nonprofit leaders, or an activist to benefit from this course
The Path of Moral Leadership at PlusAcumen Curriculum
01 Welcome to the Course
Set-up your team on the course platform
Meet fellow course participants in your first Global Discussion
Take a pre-course survey
02 Change is the Domain of All of Us & Redefine Success
Reflect on the change you wish to create in the world
Examine your current definition of 'success-and redefine success for yourself and your vision for change.
Commit yourself to taking one action to 'just start'
03 Cultivate Moral Imagination & Listen to Voices Unheard
Discover what it means to have 'moral imagination-and begin to cultivate it as a tool that will help you make the change you seek.
Practice listening deeply to people and viewpoints that you typically do not attend to.
04 Explore Identities & Practice Courage
Explore the multiple identities you hold and ways to connect with the many layers of others-identities.
Start strengthening your courage muscles: practice an act of courage to push past boundaries set by fear.
05 Hold Opposing Values in Tension & Avoid the Conformity Trap
Build your capacity for holding your own beliefs with the opposing beliefs of someone else, a practice that will be necessary as you work with others to create change.
Examine the ways in which we are often steered towards doing what is expected or deemed 'business as usual,-then learn the importance of rejecting the status quo to break through unproductive norms that perpetuate broken systems.
06 Use Markets for Good & Partner with Humility and Audacity
Explore how to use the power of markets to decrease inequality and increase sustainability rather than be seduced by profit alone.
Think strategically about which partners could best help you and your team achieve its goals, while taking into consideration the needs and goals of your potential partner to identify where you align, and where you may need to compromise
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