LEAD062 - Collaborative Leadership for Climate Action
Course Description
In navigating our climate challenges, no single group holds all the answers. Understanding and engaging with these complexities requires embracing networks of relationships. You'll delve into collective leadership models, challenging traditional individualist paradigms and fostering more inclusive approaches.
Throughout the course, you'll critically analyze collaboration amidst sustainability challenges like climate destabilization. Who's driving the transition? Who's affected? Who's left out? Conventional leadership often sidelines marginalized voices, hindering progress. Collaborative leadership prioritizes engagement with those most impacted.
Please note: This course is not eligible for the Lifelong Learning Alumni Discount.
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Course Outline
With insights from guest contributors, case studies, and diverse resources, you'll explore collective leadership frameworks and your role in collaborative efforts. This intensive four-week course blends asynchronous exercises, live sessions, and peer learning.
Expect assignments, readings, videos, and active participation in online forums.
Learner Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will have:
- Critically explored the implications for a just transition to positive climate futures
- Engaged with powerful frameworks and approaches for collaborating with stakeholders and engaging communities to achieve meaningful impact
- Identified collective leadership capabilities needed for transitioning toward positive climate futures
- Questioned the roles of power, diversity and inclusion in leading collaborative climate action
- Applied the concept of biomimicry to fostering and evaluating cooperative relationships
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Climate Adaptation Fundamentals Micro-credential : Elective Courses