Leadership and Management
Module 1
Positive Psychology and Inspired Leadership
14 Courses
Positive Psychology Platform: Coursera Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Started: 03/11/2015 Finished: 07/01/2016 Positive Psychology: Martin E. P. Seligman’s Visionary Science Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Pennsylvania Started: 27/03/2017 Finished: 01/06/2017 Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Pennsylvania Started: 05/04/2017 Finished: 16/06/2017 Positive Psychology: Character, Grit and Research Methods Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Pennsylvania Started: 21/04/2017 Finished: 24/06/2017 Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Pennsylvania Started: 18/05/2017 Finished: 07/06/2017 Positive Psychology Specialization Project: Design Your life for Well-Being Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Pennsylvania Started: 05/07/2017 Finished: 28/07/2017 Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power Platform: Open2Study Institutions: MGSM Started: 22/03/2014 Finished: 22/04/2014 Leading with Stories Platform: LinkedIn Institutions: LinkedIn Learning Started: 06/03/2018 Finished: 06/03/2018 Becoming a Thought Leader Platform: LinkedIn Institutions: LinkedIn Learning Started: 31/05/2020 Finished: 01/06/2020 Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence Platform: Coursera Institutions: Case Western Reserve University Started: 27/09/2016 Finished: 15/06/2017 Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change! Platform: Coursera Institution: Case Western Reserve University Started: 10/12/2016 Finished: 19/04/2017 Conversations That Inspire: Coaching Learning, Leadership and Change Platform: Coursera Institutions: Case Western Reserve University Started: 13/04/2017 Finished: 03/06/2017 Leading Positive Change through Appreciative Inquiry Platform: Coursera Institutions: Case Western Reserve University Started: 21/04/2017 Finished: 19/05/2017 Be a Leader, Develop a Leader - Inspired Leadership Capstone Platform: Coursera Institutions: Case Western Reserve University Started: 15/06/2017 Finished: 26/08/2017
6 Books
Emotional Intelligence & Emotional Intelligence at Work Author: Daniel Goleman Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing India Private Limited Published: 2004 Started: 11/12/2015 Finished: 06/02/2017 Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships Author: Daniel Goleman Publisher: Arrow Published: 2006 Started: 12/04/2016 Finished: 17/06/2016 The Dhammapada Author: Anonymous Publisher: Penguin Classics Published: 2015 Started: 20/09/2019 Finished: 24/09/2019 The Happiness Manifesto Author: Nic Marks Publisher: TED Published: 2011 Started: 13/01/2019 Finished: 15/01/2019 The Happiness Project Author: Gretchen Rubin Publisher: Harper Published: 2009 Started: 23/12/2019 Finished: 01/01/2020 The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country Author: Helen Russell Publisher: Audible Studios Published: 2015 Started: 23/03/2018 Finished: 23/04/2018
“The artful leader is attuned to the subtle undercurrents of emotions that pervade a group, and can read the impact of her own actions on those currents. One way leaders establish their credibility is by sensing these collective, unspoken feelings and articulayting them for the group, or acting in a way that tacitly shows they are understood. In this sense, the leader is a mirror, reflecting back to the group its own experience.
However, the leader is also a key source of the organization’s emotional tone. The excitement emanating from a leader canmove an entire group in that direction. This transmition of emotional energy lets leaders be the pilots of an organization, setting its course and direction.“
Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence, 1998:185
Leadership is the art of motivating a collective to act towards achieving a common goal, but it is also the art of motivating yourself toward achieving a desired goal.
Individuals and communities thrive at their finest when their leadership utilises the practices of positive psychology, a scientific field examining the strengths that empowers individuals and communities to flourish.
When I started my postgraduate studies, I became increasingly interested in emotional and social intelligence, thanks to the many articles I had read on the subject and the masterful books written by Daniel Goleman. I knew I wanted to improve my own emotional and social intelligence, which led me to the field of positive psychology and finally all the way back found to leadership, which I always knew would form a focus of my MTA Portfolio.
This module is primarily made up of two Coursera MOOC specializations that it is named after. Both Inspired Leadership and Positive Psychology were heavily practical specializations in which I had to complete several personal and professional assignments throughout.
These assignments were instrumental in sharpening my ability to self-coach myself and they also ignited my life coaching side business, which ended up being the final project of my Leadership and Management concentration.