UMD, USMx: Let’s Get Principled: Values, Culture & Intelligent Disobedience!

This course will prepare you to become the leader you hope to be by focusing deeply on defining your personal values, setting your personal vision statement for you as a leader, understanding the role values play in every work decision, and how to work with competing values on the big decisions. Purpose motivates.

This certificate offers an extraordinary opportunity to spend some quality time with yourself to assess your current level of soft skills, clearly define your core self, and build soft skills which are essential to professional, not to mention life, successNote that this course is the sixth and last in a series of leadership courses.

This course provides an opportunity to think about your values, what matters to you most, and about culture which is the mediator between great leaders and great work. Understanding and working through competing values at work is discussed in Intelligent Disobedience.

• Get the Models - Understand what values, culture and intelligent disobedience are.
• Get Why It Matters - Understand how values and culture deliver great work and the consequences of unresolved competing values.
• Get the Data – Explore your personal values and vision for you as a highly effective leader.
• Learn from Case Studies - Learn from the instructor's personal stories within the field and techniques for acting in alignment with your values for better decision-making.
• Take Action - Build effective action plans to be able to be intelligently disobedient when necessary
• Make the Change - Practice new skills to increase your effectiveness as a principled leader
• Get the Benefit - Be able to develop as a great leader able to create great culture: build positive workplaces where individuals flourish and organizations thrive

This session of this course includes:

• Weekly Video Lessons : Here the learner will watch weekly lesson videos. The sessions are between 10 to 35 minutes long.

• Knowledge Checks: These are quick checks after each video to help ensure you are picking up on the material. These are not graded assignments.

• Process Checks: You will come across mentions of "discussions" that have been converted into Process checks. These are non-graded questions that we highly recommend you answer to help think through your own experiences and connect them to the material.

• Weekly quizzes: Quizzes are built to test your knowledge of the week's material. They are found at the end of each week and will add up to be a total of 64% of your final grade. They will be available for learners who have paid to become "verified" in the material.

• Final Exam: The Final Exam is built to test your knowledge of the whole course's material. It wil take questions you have already seen within the knowledge checks, and also include some you haven't. This will be worth 32% of your final grade. They will be available for learners who have paid to become "verified" in the material.

• Feedback Quiz: If you are a verified learner for this course, you will have access to the feedback quiz. Here we ask you give us feedback on the course, so we can make it better! This will be worth 4% of the final grade.