Happiness in Leadership: Driving Team Success

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Become a more mindful, compassionate, and happy leader by examining science-based research on the impact positive psychology, emotional intelligence, and resiliency has on your leadership, your team, and your organization’s growth and success.

Developed by experts in the field of leadership, happiness, and applied psychology, this certificate program gives you a unique lens for leadership and mentorship. Through philosophical exploration, you will challenge your assumptions about happiness – helping incorporate good habits into your professional life and sharing that knowledge with others and helping you become a more honest and transparent leader.

Overall, you will build an emotional toolkit and redefine your leadership approach, creating more resilient, engaged, and happy teams – reducing mental burden and job burnout along the way.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Exercising Leadership: Foundational Principles

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

Course 2: Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health

Join Harvard Medical School faculty Dr. Luana Marques to use applied psychology to build personal resilience with five science-driven skills.

Course 3: Managing Happiness

Managing Happiness encourages you to explore the science of happiness, allowing you to find your truest self. Through cutting-edge survey tools, the best research, and trends in social science, positive psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, learners unlock the strategies to create a more purposeful life, full of long-lasting enjoyment and satisfaction.

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4 weeks, 2-3 hours a week, 2-3 hours a week
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The crises of our time generate enormous adaptive challenges for our families, organizations, communities, and societies. The need for leadership that can mobilize people to meet these challenges and improve life is critical.

In this introductory course, you will explore strategies for leading in a changing world where adaptive pressures will continue to challenge all of us. You will discover new ways to approach complex organizational systems and take thoughtful action on the work we all face ahead. Most importantly, you will reflect on how to move forward on the leadership challenges you care about most.
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6 weeks, 2-3 hours a week, 2-3 hours a week
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What is happiness? What makes you happy?’ Can you get happier through study and effort?

Maybe you have pondered these questions over the course of your life, but haven’t been able to come up with any definitive answers. Still, you’d like to think that happiness is something you can understand and manage, right? ****

This is a class that answers these questions and shows you how you can use the answers to build a happier life. It introduces you to the modern science of human well-being and shows you how to practice it. Unlike other happiness courses, Managing Happiness goes a step further and demonstrates how you can share the ideas with others, thus bringing more happiness and love to the world and supercharging your own well-being efforts. ****

Led by Harvard professor, author, social scientist, and former classical musician Arthur Brooks, this course will introduce cutting-edge survey tools, the best research, and trends in social science, positive psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy to help learners unlock the strategies to create a more purposeful life, full of long-lasting enjoyment and satisfaction. Managing Happiness uses philosophical and technical insights to challenge your assumptions about happiness — helping you break bad habits that hold you back and build good ones you can use for the rest of your life. ****

Happiness is a core competency for those that want to be in charge of their lives — both personally and professionally. The concepts learned in this course will lead to enduring improvements and lifelong learning. At the end of the course, you will take away key concepts and actionable insights to apply to your daily routines. People around you will notice the difference.

Start getting happier today, with Managing Happiness.
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6 weeks, 1-2 hours a week, 1-2 hours a week
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Have you ever wondered how you might be able to lead a more fulfilling and resilient life? Perhaps you want to feel at ease more often than you feel stressed, but you don’t know how? Maybe you find yourself in a place where it’s difficult to consider another perspective or find a solution to a problem you’re having?

If you’ve ever felt stressed, burned out, anxious or sad, you’re not alone. These moments are challenging and make it difficult to find a way forward. However, you can use science-backed tools to help manage these experiences and the emotions that come along with them. Regardless of any personal or professional obstacles you are facing, Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health will help you use applied psychology and five proven skills to transform your feelings of stress, anxiety, and burn out into mental strength.

With a focus on proven psychology philosophies and science-driven skills to overcome challenges, Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health breaks down five core components to creating better stress management habits. A practical overview of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) will give you a foundation for building your resilient skillset. By recognizing your own cycle of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors (TEB), you will be able to shift your perspective. To infuse energy back into a lackluster day, a “Charge Up Plan” will be the resource you can call on. When life feels scary, there are too many choices, and you’re tempted by avoidance, you will know the exact steps to face your fears and a dependable method for problem solving.

We all face challenging decisions and experience stressful situations at some point in our lives. Building mental strength and personal resilience is possible when you focus on implementing simple but powerful tools in your everyday life.

Become your most resilient self with Building Personal Resilience: Managing Anxiety and Mental Health.