About this Course

This course provides you with tools and insights for managing a crisis from a leadership perspective. If you are a leader, or work for one, you will benefit from our examination of issues management, which looks for trends that likely signal impending organizational crisis and then devising approaches to help leadership avoid that crisis. You\'ll also see the dominant leadership styles in organizations and how those styles affect leaders\' abilities to manage a crisis. You\'ll see something rarely discussed in detail: what to do if you get called into a discussion with a leader about how to manage a crisis. You\'ll see effective, and not so effective, approaches for advising a leader encountering a crisis. You\'ll hear from professionals who handle leadership and organizational crises so that you can be better positioned to advise leadership confronting a crisis. As such, this course, via structured learning activities (video lectures and quizzes), will help prepare you for the near certainty that whatever organization you work for (or want to work for) will encounter a crisis.

Created by: University of Colorado Boulder