Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
The percentage of digital transformations that succeed in achieving their objectives.
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The share of survey respondents who believe their organizations’ leaders have the right mindset to embrace the changes their company needs to succeed in the digital economy.
MIT Sloan Management Review (Jan, 2021).
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Due to continuous technological innovation and the move to remote work, organizations are facing increased pressure to digitize rapidly. To effectively lead a company through this digital transformation, business leaders need to upskill and learn how to control the psychological impact change and transition can have on their employees and teams.
Gain the tools to help navigate digital change from the human perspective in the Managing the Human Side of Digital Disruption online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Over six weeks, you’ll draw on Faculty Directors Hal Gregersen and Roger Lehman’s original Transition-Curve Framework to understand and manage the development of your team’s roles, capabilities, and emotional responses to change. You’ll also learn how to facilitate effective change at an individual, team, and organizational level through leveraging the superpowers of purpose and inquiry and establishing the essential conditions of psychological safety and trust. Finally, you’ll apply the program content to predict change, learn from it, and confidently and successfully lead current and future transformations.
Is this course for you?
This course provides managers and business leaders with the skills and tools to help their people and teams through digital change by improving employee experience and engagement. Similarly, the program applies to business leaders looking to analyze digital change's impact on organizational models and implement solutions. This course will also benefit business advisers and consultants who require enhanced digital transformation leadership knowledge and skills to set themselves apart. In addition, HR business partners who aim to improve employee value propositions and experiences in an evolving business landscape will find the concepts covered useful.
Course overview
Course overview
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Due to continuous technological innovation and the move to remote work, organizations are facing increased pressure to digitize rapidly. To effectively lead a company through this digital transformation, business leaders need to upskill and learn how to control the psychological impact change and transition can have on their employees and teams.
Gain the tools to help navigate digital change from the human perspective in the Managing the Human Side of Digital Disruption online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Over six weeks, you’ll draw on Faculty Directors Hal Gregersen and Roger Lehman’s original Transition-Curve Framework to understand and manage the development of your team’s roles, capabilities, and emotional responses to change. You’ll also learn how to facilitate effective change at an individual, team, and organizational level through leveraging the superpowers of purpose and inquiry and establishing the essential conditions of psychological safety and trust. Finally, you’ll apply the program content to predict change, learn from it, and confidently and successfully lead current and future transformations.
Is this course for you?
This course provides managers and business leaders with the skills and tools to help their people and teams through digital change by improving employee experience and engagement. Similarly, the program applies to business leaders looking to analyze digital change's impact on organizational models and implement solutions. This course will also benefit business advisers and consultants who require enhanced digital transformation leadership knowledge and skills to set themselves apart. In addition, HR business partners who aim to improve employee value propositions and experiences in an evolving business landscape will find the concepts covered useful.
What will set you apart
Course curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
Navigating transformational change from the human perspective
Module 2
Transitioning to new roles
Module 3
Leading people through capability shifts
Module 4
Navigating emotions
Module 5
Roles, capabilities, and emotions: A complex mix to manage
Module 6
Mapping the transition journey
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Faculty Directors
Roger Lehman
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Hal Gregersen
Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan
About the certificate
Develop a unique digital-transformation leadership strategy and earn an official digital certificate of completion from MIT Sloan.
This program also counts toward an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, which you can earn upon completion of four programs where at least three of the four come from your chosen certificate track and at least one is completed in person. Find full details here.
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