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UCT Graduate School of Business: Executive Leadership: Leading From the Present

Develop a people-centric, purpose-driven, and collaborative organization through conscious self-leadership and positive management.

Develop a people-centric, purpose-driven, and collaborative organization through conscious self-leadership and positive management.

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6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Enroll by Mar 16, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Mar 10, 2025
Enroll by Mar 16, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

The rapidly evolving and uncertain nature of the current workplace has highlighted the need for putting people at the center of an organization to enable the three key pillars of purpose, passion, and performance. To adapt to these demands and survive, businesses require leaders who are inspiring, self-aware, and inclusive.

Gain the skills to become a more effective and conscious leader on the Leadership: Creating a People-Centric Organisation online short course from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (GSB). By focusing on the importance of self-leadership, you’ll learn to strategically improve employee engagement and satisfaction, create a purposeful and collaborative work environment, and deliver high performance.

Over six weeks, you’ll also explore conscious leadership, positive management, diversity, stress management, and effective communication, and gain practical techniques for adapting your own leadership approach. Engage in an authentic manner, and explore your own strengths and development areas to build a more sustainable, people-centric organization.

This course is aimed at managers at all levels who want to enhance their skills to lead employees more effectively and enable them to achieve optimal performance. Young professionals who are interested in moving into a leadership position will gain the skills required to help their career journey along. Upper management, as well as recently promoted executives, who need to grow their career or set themselves apart from the competition will benefit from learning how to make a valuable contribution in their organization that aids success. Finally, specialists and experienced managers who want to grow as self-aware leaders will find valuable knowledge, techniques, and strategies on this course.

Course curriculum

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Become a more self-aware leader as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: The people-centric organization

Module 2: Self-leadership

Module 3: Positive management

Module 4: Creating a purposeful organizational culture

Module 5: Diversity, inclusion, and continuous growth

Module 6: Enabling high performance

About the certificate

Acquire modern leadership strategies and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements. Please note, due to additional administrative requirements, at times UCT course certificate delivery may be delayed by several weeks/months.

Some facts about the subject

200%

The percentage by which companies with top-quartile cultures outperform those in the bottom quartile.

McKinsey (Mar, 2021).

23%

The percentage increase in the number of employees reporting better mental health when employers develop deeper relationships with their workforce.

Gartner (Oct, 2020).

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