
United States Institute of Leadership and Diplomacy
Shining Light in the Midst of Darkness

Key Concepts
You will build skills and become familiar with concepts such as building data culture, enabling co-creation, or data-informed decision-making. You will also have the opportunity to explore a challenge you are currently facing in your organization and develop a specific action plan.
What You'll Learn
You will be blended with new skills based on teaching methods that includes case studies, interactive lectures, self-assessment tools, small group work, simulations, and immersive learning experiences. You will be driven in the path of discovering and practicing a non-traditional leadership approaches that inspire success in the digital era.
Key Topics
Leadership imperatives in the digital era
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Recognizing which aspects of leadership are changing in the digital era and why
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Understanding how digital technologies have changed the expectations of employees, customers, investors, and the broader society
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Analyzing why the stakes are rising for leaders—and how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the pressure
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Adapting to the speed of decision-making and the degree of uncertainty
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Building partnerships and catalyzing ecosystems
Succeeding on the path to digital maturity
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Fostering a sense of purpose throughout the organization
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Creating a data culture and an organization that can make ethical and responsible data-informed decisions
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Embedding responsible and ethical judgment into business decisions
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Earning stakeholder trust
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Enabling an outside-in perspective and developing contextual intelligence
Leading a digitally agile organization
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Supporting a "challenger" mindset and the willingness to disrupt
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Fostering continuous experimentation and learning in your organization
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Nurturing a culture of experimentation with customer needs at the center
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Encouraging and instilling a culture of curiosity and creativity
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Accessing new capabilities through innovation labs and corporate accelerators
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Helping employees develop new capabilities needed as the company matures
Collaboration at scale and distributed leadership
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Distributing decision-making and enabling agile co-creation throughout the organization
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Leading for co-creation vs. "followership"
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Bringing together people with diverse skills and experiences to solve problems
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Collaborating across remote and hybrid teams to strengthen culture and foster accountability
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Empowering employees to solve problems and feel greater ownership
Leading for success in the digital era
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Identifying and overcoming assumptions—in yourself and others—that may interfere with adopting new mindsets and behaviors
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Becoming a digital change agent—and empowering other change agents in your organization to innovate
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Understanding what it takes to align digital natives and digital immigrants in the digital transformation journey
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Leveraging the insights and experiences of digital natives to inform vision and future journeys