Organizations increasingly expect their leaders to generate a work environment fostering openness, trust and collaboration. Beyond increasing happiness at work, a more authentic style of leadership improves performance, creativity, and talent attraction and retention.

As you become an authentic leader, you’ll learn to

• Gain self-awareness by observe your own emotions, values, attitudes and behaviors neutrally without judging

• Recognize patterns of authentic and inauthentic behavior in yourself and others and become aware of their effect

• Realize how others perceive you, and understand their behavior toward you

• Express yourself assertively with your true voice and help others around you do the same

• Gain influence in a natural way by rising as a confident, open and trustworthy person

This course is for leaders and for those aspiring to leadership who want to bring both humanity and performance in the workplace. Whether you are an executive, a manager, a team leader or an expert, you are in a position where authentic leadership will help you grow and make a difference for people around you.

The course will walk you through skills of authentic leadership such as

• Self-awareness

• Empathy

• Honest relationships

Throughout the course you will be encouraged to take action to unlock your potential as an authentic leader with the help of assignments, short quizzes, resources and concrete practices such as

• Mindfulness

• Moving Motivators (Management 3.0)

• The Jester

After completing this course, authentic leadership will be part of your personal brand and contribute to your career success.

This course is a deep dive into the first theme of Agile Leadership, a course that thousands of students have already enjoyed (rating 4.2 / 5).