Women's Leadership Program Online Short Course
New Haven, USA
Course
DURATION
6 weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
USD 2,800
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
Leverage your unique leadership capabilities to drive the business forward, and lead your organizations and teams effectively.
Women remain underrepresented in top leadership positions, globally. To succeed, women need to learn to navigate the external factors that are hindering their access to leadership positions and the internal factors that lie within themselves. This online course, the newest in the Women’s Leadership family, provides access to women seeking a more convenient way to empower themselves and advance their organization.
The Yale School of Management Executive Education’s online Women’s Leadership Program helps you develop your full professional potential as a leader in business and society. You’ll enhance your unique strengths, skills, and traits, harness your networks, and maximize your innovation potential. In a world that will soon be dominated by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and increasingly complex systems, these skills — and the integrative, collaborative solutions they bring about — will ensure you are poised for success.
Guided by Program Co-conveners Emma Seppälä and Rodrigo Canales, you’ll gain the ability to leverage your core values, networks, and emotional intelligence to effectively lead your teams and propel your organization forward.
An online education that sets you apart
This Yale School of Management Executive Education online program is delivered in collaboration with online education provider GetSmarter. Join a growing community of global professionals who've already benefited from the opportunity to:
- Join the exclusive Yale School of Management Executive Education group on LinkedIn upon successful completion of the program.
- Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you learn around your schedule.
- Earn an official certificate of participation from the Yale School of Management Executive Education.
Why choose GetSmarter?
GetSmarter, powered by 2U, is an online learning expert with over 10 years of experience in developing premium online short courses from the world’s leading universities and institutions. We are powered by 2U to support you in unlocking your potential through life-changing learning with an immersive and high-touch experience.
We deliver market-led courses that equip working professionals with the expertise required to upskill, reskill or kickstart a completely new career. Through a data-driven approach, we analyze future skills requirements and ensure all courses address this need. We ensure that leading universities and institutions are your expert guides and our people, technology, and resources are your engine – together we power more than just education, we power your potential.
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Is this program for you?
This online leadership course aims to equip existing and aspiring leaders with the confidence, self-awareness, and networking skills to effectively lead their teams and organizations. Business leaders and senior managers will benefit from gaining insight into the behaviors that have the potential to shape future business, as well as leadership skills to effect positive change within their organizations. It’s also beneficial to middle and junior managers looking to gain personal and professional leadership development in order to prepare to move into a senior or executive management role.
You'll walk away with:
- The skills to harness your unique traits and characteristics as powerful leadership tools to effectively develop teams and organizations.
- The ability to leverage relationships, connections, and interpersonal interactions to help drive business growth and innovation.
- A personalized development plan that will help you to identify your strengths and guide you towards achieving your goals.
- The opportunity to interact with like-minded women from diverse backgrounds seeking to add value to their organizations.*
*Upon successful completion of your program, you’ll also join the exclusive Yale School of Management Executive Education group on LinkedIn
Over the duration of this online program, you’ll work through the following modules:
- Module 1: Values-driven leadership
Explore your core values and traits to become an effective leader. - Module 2: Self-knowledge and self-mastery
Learn about the value of having self-awareness and practicing self-mastery. - Module 3: Leading growth through experimentation
Use experimentation to develop your personal and organizational approaches to leadership and innovation. - Module 4: Emotionally intelligent feedback
Draw on emotional awareness in order to have difficult conversations and use feedback effectively. - Module 5: Networks and structures of innovation
Understand the role networks play in developing personal strengths, innovation, and leadership. - Module 6: Positive leadership
Understand how using positive leadership practices can improve your personal leadership capabilities and strengthen your organization.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during program development.
Manage your time
GetSmarter's learning model is designed to help you, as a working professional, improve your skills without compromising on work and family responsibilities. The course work is broken up into weekly, manageable bite-sized modules, with incremental deadlines, designed to help you pace yourself over the duration of the course and allow you the legroom to work when it suits you best.
At the beginning of each module, you'll be presented with the course content and assignments necessary for completion. You also have access to your Success Adviser who will help you manage your time, and support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have.
Seek employer assistance
By improving your skills and industry knowledge, you'll have an influence on the success of your organization. Why wouldn't you ask your boss to help you fund your studies if it's going to have an impact on the way you do business?
Of our past students, 37 percent have received financial assistance from their employers. You can ask for help, too.
If you are a Learning & Development (L&D) manager, or involved in training and upskilling for an organization, you can request information regarding our corporate offering on our GetSmarter for business page.