Data Driven Leadership Skills Microcredential

Overview

This Data Driven Leadership Skills Microcredential from The University of Glasgow by FutureLearn offers 21st century leaders the opportunity to develop the leadership and management skills required to lead engaged, productive, and high-achieving teams in business today and into the future.

You’ll discover new leadership strategies and methodologies that build on traditional leadership models, incorporating the new challenges and opportunities impacting leaders in the age of data and digital technology.

Boost your knowledge of data driven leadership

The impact of the 21st century’s fourth industrial revolution means that many traditional leadership research and models are now outdated.

Traditional leadership training encourages leaders to be responsible for analysing all information and then to make decisions. This course shows how modern leadership models can be more agile and responsive by sharing data analysis and decision-making.

Learn with experts at the University of Glasgow’s triple-accredited business school

This microcredential is offered by the business school at top Russel Group university, the University of Glasgow.

You’ll learn with esteemed lecturer, Dr. Matt Offord, a former Naval Officer with extensive experience leading agile 21st century teams in high technology and data rich environments.

Dr. Offord has also published research into agile information- and data-based leadership behaviours and informal decision-making networks, and is a regular speaker on data-driven leadership and communication at the UK Defence Academy.

What skills will you learn?

• Data-driven decision making

• Data-driven leadership

• Agile leadership

• Building an agile team

• Managing information supply chains

• Leadership strategies

• Leadership management

• Leadership training