Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership and Management

Overview

Build the skills to become an exceptional leader and manager in MBA-level courses taught by expert faculty. Benefit from live, interactive learning sessions with instructors and receive actionable feedback from teaching staff and your fellow learners. Through hands-on projects, exercises, and case studies, you’ll develop experience, insight, and in-demand leadership and management skills that you can apply immediately in your career.

The certificate stacks directly into the full [Master of Business Administration](https://www.coursera.org/degrees/imba) (iMBA), [Master of Science in Accountancy](https://www.coursera.org/degrees/imsa) (iMSA), and [Master of Science in Management](https://www.coursera.org/degrees/ms-management-illinois) (iMSM) from the University of Illinois.

Syllabus

Course 1: BADM 508: Leadership & Teams
- In this course, you’ll develop and learn how to integrate fundamental behavioral concepts and theories that have administrative applications. Your focus will initially be on the individual decision-maker but will ultimately take in interpersonal, organizational, and social structures and influences. You’ll also develop strategies and methods of research for behavioral applications in business.

Course 2: BADM 509: Managing Organizations
- In this course, you’ll examine and analyze the organization as a social system and the impact of its various components on work attitudes and behavior. Topics covered include the development of organizational structures, organizational effectiveness, decision-making and policy formulation, leadership, and change.

Course 3: BADM 544: Strategic Management
- In this course, you’ll engage in an integrative examination of executive-level decisions and policies that drive company survival and performance. Your focus will combine theoretical and practical learning through strategic management tools, frameworks, examples, and case studies. You’ll gain a top management view of companies and organizations that is essential learning for any leader.