Data-Driven Leadership Skills

Overview

Digital leadership training that prepares you for the future of business

This Data-Driven Leadership Skills course at University of Glasgow is designed for a wide range of professionals. You could be in a management structure, leadership role, or looking to gain more knowledge 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of the 21st century’s fourth industrial revolution means that many traditional leadership research and models are now outdated.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.

Analyse and evaluate traditional models of leadership and management

On this microcredential, you’ll delve into traditional leadership models and ask how these traditional theories of leadership can be critiqued in light of how businesses operate today.

You’ll discover decision science tools for organising and managing data as a leader and learn how to apply lean principles to the integration and optimisation of information.

You’ll also be introduced to traditional management science concepts and learn why their data-based origins mean they’re still relevant today.

Discover new strategic leadership planning tools

As you consider traditional leadership planning tools, you’ll familiarise yourself with the planning paradox, whereby the efficiency of 20th Century planning tools – like PESTLE and SWOT analyses – are limited in dynamic 21st century contexts.

Starting with early commentators like Henry Minzberg, you’ll trace critical approaches to leadership and strategy using more exploratory tools such as Cynefin.

You’ll discover how to interpret data as a leader using your lecturer’s own data driven strategic decision making tool, and practice using the SWAN model as well as military tools used for dynamic planning.

Explore efficient and agile leadership structures

As agile leadership continues to dominate 21st Century organisations and decision-making, you’ll identify how agile models differ from 20th century hierarchies.

You’ll evaluate how a move towards agile working is affecting modern leadership and collective decision-making, before learning how agility can be coded into any organisation.

Using real-world case studies, you’ll explore the differences between agility and efficiency, and assess how to balance this dichotomy when applying agile and responsive leadership practices.