Leading Sustainable Community Transformation Coursera

Overview

The ability to engage stakeholders is an increasingly important competency that requires tact, strategy, collaboration, and high quality communication skills. Solving complex problems effectively, appropriately, and in a timely manner requires a major shift in mindset, moving away from siloed, discipline-specific methods.

What you'll learn on this The Leading Sustainable Community Transformation course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Colorado Boulder:

• Learners will master techniques to collect data that can be used to inform your work and stakeholder interaction.

• Learners will apply systems thinking for project management.

• Learners will know how to develop a practical, place-based strategy for stakeholder engagement.

• Learners will be able to explain how to build rapport and trust with stakeholders and how to work as a consultant in a team environment.

Applied Learning Project

• Learners will have the opportunity to write a proposal using principles of systems thinking, articulate and illustrate the system and its components related to a particular project focus, apply systems thinking and project management concepts, and enlist stakeholders to identify and evaluate the needs of a community. 

Skills You Will Gain:

• Leadership and Management

• Strategy

• Strategy and Operations

• Decision Making

• Business Psychology

• Entrepreneurship

• Market Research

• Project Management

• Research and Design