Examine corporate governance techniques and policies to mitigate the risk of an ethical breach in your organization. This course will emphasize the creation of an effective ethics program and a speak-up/listen-up culture.

Learn how to understand yourself, what is important to you, and why it is important to you. Through that understanding, you will better live a life in a way that expresses it, and you will learn how to inspire others.

Learn the importance of social responsibility and how to implement ethics on a personal, organizational, industrial, and societal level.

Learn the concepts of law and ethics, and better understand and evaluate situations where the two may conflict. These concepts will be evaluated through two legal case studies.

Disagreement and conflict seem to be everywhere we look. Heated tempers hijack productive conversations, preventing understanding and resolution. At the other extreme, staying silent or feeling unsafe to express an honest opinion makes productive problem-solving impossible. Fortunately, it is possible to manage conflict effectively with the right skillset. In this course, you will learn critical skills for navigating difficult conversations. Compromise, negotiation, and persuasion and interact respectfully with others who think, work, and live differently than we do.

Strategic leaders are able to identify available resources and drive growth, while also accepting adequate risk to ensure growth occurs at the right pace. Assess your strategic skills and embrace a problem-finding skillset to enable your company to outperform rivals and delight current and future customers.

Although negotiations are a ubiquitous part of our lives, many know little about the strategy and psychology of negotiating effectively. Why do we sometimes get our way, while other times we walk away feeling frustrated by our inability to achieve our objectives? This course utilizes psychological science to teach you how to negotiate in a way that simultaneously maximizes economic outcomes and strengthens relationships. With multiple opportunities for hands-on practice and abundant real-life illustrations, this course provides concrete techniques that you can apply immediately in your personal and professional life.

Habits are the engines that run our lives. Building effective and healthy habits is the key to leveraging your leadership and creating ease in your days. Designed to elevate experienced leaders, this course is perfect for those who want to use habits as a tool to fine-tune their skills. The class will discuss the science of habit formation and change, and then focus on four key habits of successful leaders: managing your mind, auditing your time, creating safety and trust with others, and cultivating fun and play. As a competent and experienced leader, this course will help you custom-fit your skills and gain insightful leverage. This course is held in short and engaging lectures and will provide you several science-based tools that can be immediately implemented in your daily life to improve your performance and leadership.