CAM Leading Sustainability: High Impact Leadership

Enhance your high impact leadership capabilities and apply these skills to your organisation.

In a contemporary business landscape marked by technological disruption and rapid change, industry leaders play an increasingly important role in shaping an environment that ensures continued growth.

This online short course provides you with the skills to lead with impact and influence, as you take the opportunity to investigate different leadership styles and frameworks. Explore new perspectives and strategies as you discover the value of high-impact leadership in the individual, team, and organizational contexts. Develop key leadership competencies, equip yourself to unite teams over a common purpose, and find your own purpose as a leader.

The course is guided by industry experts and faculty from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), who have many years of experience in supporting business leaders from around the world to bring about change in their organizations.

This course is certified by the United Kingdom CPD Certification Service and may be applicable to individuals who are members of, or are associated with, UK-based professional bodies. The course has an estimated 80 hours of learning.

Note: should you wish to claim CPD activity, the onus is upon you. CISL and GetSmarter accept no responsibility, and cannot be held responsible, for the claiming or validation of hours or points.

About the certificate

Learn effective leadership and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the course, as per the stipulated requirements.

Why choose GetSmarter?

GetSmarter, a 2U, Inc. brand, is an online learning expert with over 10 years of experience in developing high-quality online short courses from the world’s leading universities. We deliver market-led courses that equip working professionals with the expertise required for the workplace of the future. Through a data-driven approach, we analyze future skills requirements and ensure all courses address this need.

Students are supported at every stage of the learning journey, enabling them to thrive professionally through increased relevance, competence, and confidence.

This course is for you if you want to:

• Develop your entrepreneurial mindset and foster innovation in your organisation.
• Equip yourself with the values and practices to lead sustainability in a volatile world of climate, economic, and social disruption.
• Drive effective change in your organisation and develop strategies to communicate, influence, and engage with stakeholders.
• Gain insight into sustainability leadership and the application of systems thinking to business challenges.

You’ll walk away with:

• A high-impact leadership action plan to become a more effective leader in your current and future spheres of influence.
• Key leadership competencies to lead with impact in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
• Access to the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) alumni network, consisting of senior leaders and practitioners in every industry.
• A certificate of completion from the University of Cambridge validating your leadership knowledge and improved capabilities.

• Module 1
  High impact leadership and its importance
• Module 2
  Exploring the context for leadership and related challenges
• Module 3
  What does high-impact leadership look like?
• Module 4
  The future we want, the leadership we need
• Module 5
  High impact leadership capabilities
• Module 6
  Communicating for influence
• Module 7
  Developing the mindset and skills for innovation
• Module 8
  Rewiring your leadership to achieve your goal

Manage your time

GetSmarter's learning model is designed to help you, as a working professional, improve your skills without compromising on work and family responsibilities. The course work is broken up into weekly, manageable bite-sized modules, with incremental deadlines, designed to help you pace yourself over the duration of the course and allow you the legroom to work when it suits you best.

At the beginning of each module, you'll be presented with the course content and assignments necessary for completion. You also have access to your Success Adviser who will help you manage your time, and support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have.

Seek employer assistance

By improving your skills and industry knowledge, you'll have an influence on the success of your organization. Why wouldn't you ask your boss to help you fund your studies if it's going to have an impact on the way you do business?

Of our past students, 37 percent have received financial assistance from their employers. You can ask for help, too.

If you are a Learning & Development (L&D) manager, or involved in training and upskilling for an organization, you can request information regarding our corporate offering on our GetSmarter for a business page.