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This Specialized Program is aimed at leaders who are interested in consolidating their leadership and critical thinking skills within an organization, positively impacting organizational behavior and human flourishing. Through 3 courses, develop your motivation and negotiation skills. Discover the elements of the leadership model oriented to human flourishing to develop leaders who achieve better results and analyze events with intellectual rigor.

Every organization faces a myriad of risks that can threaten its operations, reputation, and bottom line. A robust, effective compliance program can make the difference between companies that successfully navigate those risks, and those that become cautionary tales. This specialization will introduce the essential elements of effective organizational compliance by exploring the concepts, considerations, and strategies for assessing risks and managing the compliance function. 

The ASU Sustainability specialization introduces the role of a sustainability analyst, assesses sustainability challenges that face the planet and employers, and equips learners with the foundational skills needed to address these challenges. By developing competency in goal-setting, reporting and data analysis, learners who complete the specialization will be able to make an impact on their organization as a sustainability analyst.  

This course series is designed for mid-to-senior-level professionals, including managers, business leaders, product managers, and strategic professionals, who are driven to sharpen their strategic thinking and embrace innovation in a fast-changing business landscape. 

You will gain actionable insights to lead agile strategies that foster innovation, improve customer engagement, and drive operational efficiency in dynamic environments. You will also master the ability to identify emerging market shifts, embed customer insights into business strategies, and leverage digital tools to build adaptive organizations. These skills are essential to remain competitive in industries where agility and innovation are key to long-term success.

The Advanced Business Analytics Specialization brings together academic professionals and experienced practitioners to share real world data analytics skills you can use to grow your business, increase profits, and create maximum value for your shareholders. Learners gain practical skills in extracting and manipulating data using SQL code, executing statistical methods for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis, and effectively interpreting and presenting analytic results.

The problems faced by decision makers in today’s competitive business environment are complex. Achieve a clear competitive advantage by using data to explain the performance of a business,  evaluate different courses of action, and employ a structured approach to business problem-solving.

This specialization explains why it is important to leverage data when contemplating organizational choices, and supplies the tools at the heart of data-driven decision making (DDDM). The three-course series explores how technology enables the collection and organization of unprecedented amounts of data, and how to dissect that data to gain powerful insights. Course topics include analyzing process maps for driving improvement, software for maximizing data analysis, statistical process control, creating metrics dashboards and translating data stories, and the connection between operations technology metrics and organizational performance. Content touches on leadership’s role in instituting an internet of things (IoT) strategy in manufacturing and service environments. Lessons feature case studies highlighting ROI achieved through DDDM, and the cultural changes required for success. 

Today’s professional environment is highly competitive, continuously changing, and difficult to manage. Employees rarely reach positions of leadership without managing one or more projects or a project segment early in their career. The goal of this Specialization is to give you the tools to more effectively and successfully manage projects; to give you a solid foundation of knowledge, skills, and confidence that sets you apart and gives you a competitive edge as you move toward leadership positions.

This Project Management for Engineering Professionals Specialization is targeted for engineers who are interested in improving their project management skills in a new leadership position or in advance of their first leadership position. As part of the Specialization, you will prepare key Project Execution Plan documents based on available templates. 

This specialization introduces blockchain, a revolutionary technology that enables peer-to-peer transfer of digital assets without any intermediaries, and is predicted to be just as impactful as the Internet. More specifically, it prepares learners to program on the Ethereum blockchain. The four courses provide learners with an understanding and working knowledge of foundational blockchain concepts, a skill set for designing and implementing smart contracts, methods for developing decentralized applications on the blockchain, and information about the ongoing specific industry-wide blockchain frameworks.

The Generative AI Leadership & Strategy Specialization on Coursera is an innovative program designed to empower leaders with the skills needed to harness the full potential of large language models like ChatGPT, revolutionizing leadership strategies and productivity in business and personal life. Throughout the course, participants will learn to pen effective prompts to command these AI systems, unlocking emergent intelligence for remarkable problem-solving capabilities. This training covers a vast spectrum of practical applications, from creating flawless agendas to honing proposal writing, engaging in strategic brainstorming, and navigating intricate HR dynamics. Crucially, the course demystifies the underlying technology, positions Generative AI as an indispensable cognitive enhancement tool, and addresses the integration of this technology within teams, minimizing anxiety around its adoption. 

The Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine specialization will teach you how to implement solutions using Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, including building, scheduling, load balancing, and monitoring workloads, as well as providing for discovery of services, managing role-based access control and security, and providing persistent storage to these applications. Students will get a review of the layout and principles of Google Cloud, followed by an introduction to creating and managing software containers and an introduction to the architecture of Kubernetes.