Best Online Leadership Courses

Reach the next level in your career with these leadership courses for both first-time and experienced leaders. Develop key insights, skills and leadership styles to influence and inspire others, and drive performance in your organisation.

Leadership for Senior Executives

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Between expanding globalization, rapid technological shifts, and evolving social norms, how can leaders make the right strategic decisions and leadership choices? In this live online program, you will learn how to manage this uncertainty by exploring five different roles: leader as beacon, leader as coach, leader as innovator, leader as change agent, and leader as architect.

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International Leadership Skills for the Workplace

FUTURELEARN

Develop leadership skills by studying leadership theories and cultural management in an international context. Upon completion of the course, you’ll have a strong understanding of what it takes to be a genuine leader and how you can grow your leadership qualities based on your own skills, as well as the requirements of your position.

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Leadership Strategies: The Effective Use of Power

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Power. Influence. Collaboration. Learn to master all three in Leadership Strategies: The Effective Use of Power. This one-week, live online program explores the sources and uses of power and teaches influence strategies to help you become a more collaborative and successful leader.

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New Manager Training in Essential Skills

UDEMY

This course is organized around three critical blocks of skills: First, managing and motivating individuals; second, leading high performing teams; and third, engaging their people in the continuous improvement of work processes.

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Digital leaders

EDX

In this Digital Leadership program, you will develop the knowledge and capabilities to lead organizational change and transformation. You will gain hands on experience in understanding strategies to drive and transform your business in the digital economy and much more.

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Leadership Fundamentals

LINKEDIN LEARNING

Lead with intention using the leadership tips, tactics, and advice in this audio-only course. Lisa Earle McLeod and Elizabeth Lotardo explain how to develop a leadership mindset, thrive in crucial leadership moments and challenges, and build a winning team.

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Leading the Modern Day Business

COURSERA

This course starts with digital transformation, then introduces design thinking, which provides you with the tools to become an innovative thinker and uncover creative opportunities at every level in every kind of organization. It then talks about what it takes to become a product person in today’s digital age.

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Leadership Communication (with Practice Exercises)

VIRTUALSPEECH

Learn how to convey your ideas in ways that drive effective decision-making, teamwork, and action. Learn specific leadership related topics and then practice with interactive exercises.

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Inclusive Leadership

EDX

You will learn how to apply inclusive leadership skills — Empowerment, Accountability, Courage, and Humility, and have the opportunity to practice using them to foster team citizenship and innovation. Explore practical strategies and techniques to find common ground and work successfully with people who think, look, and have beliefs different from your own.

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Strategy Execution

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Strategy Execution will equip you with the tools, skills, and frameworks to allocate resources, measure performance, manage risk, and execute strategy. You’ll explore common challenges that prevent or derail implementation and learn how to design systems and structures that meet your organization’s strategic objectives.

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The Science of Leadership

UDEMY

Leadership, management techniques and communication skills based on research from neuroscience to social psychology. Frameworks based on the latest insights in cognitive psychology and related fields, as well as research and experiments on human behavior and how they apply to leadership and team management.

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Women Leaders Programme

INSEAD

Women face a unique set of challenges when progressing into senior leadership positions, including unconscious bias, a scarcity of role models, and a peer group that continually shrinks the more senior they become. These can make striving for the top a lonely and frustrating endeavor even in organisations with the best intentions to support their top female talent.

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Initiating and Planning Projects

COURSERA

Successful projects require careful upfront planning. In this course, you’ll learn the key roles and responsibilities of the project manager and project team. You’ll also learn to answer some key questions upfront to help you meet project objectives: What will this project accomplish? Why is this project important? Who benefits from this project?

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Team Building and Transformational Leadership

FUTURELEARN

Discover how to enhance your emerging healthcare management career through practical leadership theories and personal development. This course will help you to examine different methods of conflict management and discover conflict resolution skills and techniques that work, including the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI).

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