ONLINE COURSE
Women in Leadership:
Why enroll in this course?
Refine your leadership style and discover the most effective approaches to coaching and negotiation.
Promote policy that advances diversity and inclusion, fostering a culture of belonging and equal opportunity for all.
Tackle gender disparities within the professional environment by learning how to overcome challenges faced by women.
Interact with MIT experts, instructors, and peers in live synchronous sessions for a more comprehensive learning experience.
Networking opportunities establish professional connections with industry experts and your cohort.
Access to rich supplementary resources provides additional materials and content for a more thorough educational journey.
What will you learn?
To provide practical strategies and tactics to achieve equity in any organizational context.
To acknowledge, understand, and address the challenges facing women who seek leadership roles.
Learn the principles and practices of transformational leadership; including how to build networks, how to motivate people, how to build a vision, and how to get people to buy into your vision.
To critically assess how intersectionality shapes recruiting and retaining talent while also addressing biases in recruitment practices.
To develop methods for managing sexism and discrimination within the workplace and learn to create a considerate working environment.
To dismantle traditional notions of leadership by implementing strategies such as negotiation tactics, a robust leadership identity and public speaking abilities.
To implement research-backed positive reinforcement models to achieve tangible results within your organization without compromising employee morale.
To understand what innovative research tells us about the most effective approaches to leadership in the 21st century.
All the participants who successfully complete their program will receive an MIT Professional Education Certificate of Completion, as well as Continuing Education Units (CEUs)*.
To obtain CEUs, complete the accreditation confirmation, which is available at the end of the course. CEUs are calculated for each course based on the number of learning hours.
*The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program.
To understand whether or not these CEUs may be applied toward professional certification, licensing requirements, or other required training or continuing education hours, please consult your training department or licensing authority directly.
Course outline
Women in Leadership provides the curriculum, tools, and techniques to become a catalyst for positive change and equity within your organization. Empower yourself to take bold risks in order to advance yourself, your team, and your organization in the face of adversity.
Who is this online course for?
Aspiring leaders who must identify the skills needed for successful leadership and how to put them into practice.
Senior executives and leaders looking to take action to promote equitable merit and growth within their organization.
Managers who want to better comprehend the challenges that women in particular face in organizations and businesses in order to make an equitable difference.
Leaders in STEM careers looking to refine and take ownership of their leadership skills in a field where female participation is accelerating.
Corporate roles cultivating their leadership approach and persona, public presentations, working within teams, and discovering transformational leadership.
Course overview
Lead instructors
John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities and Co-chair of the Gender Equity Committee of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences - MIT | Coordinating Instructor
Senior Lecturer in the Daniel J. Riccio Graduate Engineering Leadership Program at MIT
Faculty contributors
Associate Professor Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, Co Director At Small Satellite Center, MIT School Of Engineering
Arthur Dehon Little Professor, Department Executive Officer, MIT School Of Engineering
Professor of Physics, Division Head for Astrophysics - MIT School of Science
Founder of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication, MIT Sloan School of Management
Register now and boost your professional trajectory.
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