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Women remain underrepresented in leadership positions globally. To succeed, women must learn to navigate both the external factors that hinder their access to leadership positions and the internal factors that could cost them opportunities for advancement.
The online Women’s Leadership Program from the Yale School of Management Executive Education equips you with the knowledge and skills to develop your full professional potential as leaders in society. Through exploration of values-based leadership and emotional self-mastery, you’ll strengthen your emotional intelligence, understand your individual strengths, and learn to harness creative thinking to maximize the capacity for business innovation and problem-solving. Embark on a personal development journey and learn to utilize your distinctive abilities to help guide yourself, your teams, and your organization towards success.
This online leadership course aims to equip existing and aspiring leaders with the confidence, self-awareness, and networking skills to effectively lead their teams and organizations. Business leaders and senior managers will benefit from gaining insight into the behaviors that have the potential to shape future business, as well as leadership skills to effect positive change within their organizations. It’s also beneficial to middle and junior managers looking to gain personal and professional leadership development in order to prepare to move into a senior or executive management role.
Yale SOM Executive Education offers multiple online, on-campus and live-online women's leadership programs.
Discover how to amplify your leadership style through your core values as you work through the weekly modules of this online course.
Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1: Values-driven leadership
Module 2: Self-knowledge and self-mastery
Module 3: Leading growth through experimentation
Module 4: Emotionally intelligent feedback
Module 5: Networks and structures of innovation
Module 6: Positive leadership
The Women's Leadership Program will teach you how to strategically utilize your strengths and earn an official certificate of participation from Yale School of Management Executive Education.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your 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.
LinkedIn research reveals that emotional intelligence is one of the most in-demand skills for organizations.
LinkedIn (Jan, 2020).
The proportion of senior management roles held by women globally in 2021, up from 25% in 2017.
Grant Thornton (2021).
GetSmarter, an edX partner, delivers career-relevant, fully supported, and expert-led online courses from the world's leading universities and institutions. As an online learning expert with over 15 years' experience, GetSmarter leverages long-standing expertise in market research, data analysis, and business insights to ensure that you gain the skills critical to career growth.