Sustainability Leadership Development

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位教师： Mike Shriberg, Ph.D.

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Analyze the unique challenges and opportunities of sustainability leadership

Assess and critique traditional leadership theory through the lens of environmental problems

Reflect and build on your personal leadership strengths and weaknesses to identify opportunities for growth

Prepare yourself for professional and volunteer opportunities in sustainability

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Communication

Culture Transformation

Leadership Development

Professional Development

Change Management

Organizational Change

Problem Solving

Decision Making

Complex Problem Solving

Environmental Issue

Leadership Studies

Systems Thinking

Organizational Leadership

Corporate Sustainability

Leadership

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6 项作业

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该课程共有5个模块

How organizations and society respond to declines in environmental and social capital is the defining issue of our times. “Sustainability Leadership” explores and analyzes the concepts and application of leadership to empower you to be a positive change agent during this critical time.

This course prepares current and future sustainability professionals to tackle “wicked problems” — challenges that are difficult to solve due to incomplete, contradictory, or changing information and that stem from simultaneously addressing environmental and interrelated social and economic issues.

This requires a rethinking of how people and organizations exert leadership.

Each module will explore how power structures, social justice, and equity impact organizations and how leaders can utilize ethics and values to set and achieve goals.

You'll learn to apply sustainability leadership to real-world situations through lectures, conversations with key leaders, case studies, self-assessments, readings, videos, and podcasts.

By the end of the course, you’ll draft a personalized action plan that can help begin or advance your career in sustainability and provide a sound basis to start transforming your organization for good.

This is the third course in “Green Skills for a Sustainable and Just Future," a course series dedicated to shaping the next generation of sustainable practices and leadership.

Sustainability Leadership as 21st Century Leadership

How does leadership for sustainability differ from traditional leadership?What do the unique attributes of solving environmental problems require in terms of professional skills?

In Module 1, you build the foundations for the course by exploring sustainability as a leadership framework.You will hear from two inspiring leaders about the intersection of justice, outdoor education, and environmental leadership.

You will begin to build your own personal sustainability leadership plan after listening to an engaging podcast from an Indigenous water advocate and assessing a complex case where conservation values run up against local preferences and needs.

涵盖的内容

5个视频 12篇阅读材料 1个作业 1个应用程序项目 5个讨论话题

Welcome to the Course • 4分钟

Foundations: Sustainability as Wicked Problem & Leadership Challenge • 10分钟

Outdoor Leadership Interview with Jeannette Stawski • 17分钟

Insider View of Environmental Leadership Conversation with Conan Smith • 28分钟

Complexities of Sustainability Leadership: Lessons from the Conservation Movement • 7分钟

Meet Your Instructor • 1分钟

Syllabus • 10分钟

Help Us Learn About You • 10分钟

Why Sustainable Issues Are Wicked Problems • 7分钟

Introduction to the Personal Sustainability Leadership Plan • 1分钟

Preview of the Leadership Interview and Reflection • 2分钟

Selections from The Outdoor Leader • 10分钟

[Optional] Leadership Matrix from Humanergy • 2分钟

Holding the Fire Podcast: Ancient Wisdom with Anne Poelina • 56分钟

[Optional] Guns or GPS Units? • 40分钟

Conduct Your Leadership Interview • 10分钟

Introduction to Gamut Workbook • 2分钟

Module 1 Quiz • 10分钟

Personal Leadership Plan, Part 1: Leadership Interview • 30分钟

Meet Your Fellow Global Learners • 10分钟

Wicked Problems • 10分钟

Outdoor Leadership Reflection • 10分钟

Ancient Wisdom with Anne Poelina • 10分钟

[Optional] Guns or GPS Units? • 10分钟

Values & Vision

Leaders must know themselves, have clearly articulated values and be able to build a common vision in order to be effective.

Module 2 focuses internally, building the base for the next 3 modules by exploring ethics, long-term thinking and finding our way literally and figuratively.

This module includes 3 compelling videos and an interview with a lifelong sustainability leader guided by a strong moral compass.The lessons you will learn focus on how vision and values form a basis for leadership decision-making.

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3个视频 4篇阅读材料 1个作业 1个应用程序项目 3个讨论话题

Values and Competencies • 13分钟

Lifelong Sustainability Leadership Conversation with Lana Pollack • 26分钟

Vision • 16分钟

How to Turn Climate Anxiety into Action • 14分钟

Wayfinding Leadership: Wisdom for Developing Potential • 20分钟

[Optional] Wolf Wars • 90分钟

Envisioning a Sustainable World by Donella Meadows • 20分钟

Module 2 Quiz • 60分钟

Personal Leadership Plan, Part 2: Internal Assessment of Your Vision & Values • 30分钟

Wayfarer Leadership Reflection • 15分钟

[Optional] Wolf Wars • 20分钟

OPTIONAL - WE'LL DISCUSS IN CLASS Envisioning a More Sustainable World • 10分钟

Equity, Relationships & Power

This module focuses on your person-to-person relationships and how they impact your sustainability leadership outcomes.Specifically, you will explore power and the impact of situational leadership (e.g., leading from where you are).

With an emphasis on how race, ethnicity, religion, and other factors influence power, you will hear from a community leader working in under-resourced areas of a U.S.city.The module includes lessons on active listening and the dangers of making assumptions.

Through a TedX talk, case study, and several lectures/conversations, you will analyze and practice how relationships influence decisions, and how power and status can guide opportunities and actions.

You will assess an environmental justice case and produce the first part of your personal sustainability leadership plan.

涵盖的内容

3个视频 4篇阅读材料 1个作业 1个应用程序项目 3个讨论话题

The Power of Inference & Assumptions • 14分钟

Community Leadership on Water Conversation with Erma Leaphart • 25分钟

Dialogue, Relationships & Conflict • 17分钟

Ladder of Inference • 15分钟

Science of Productive Conflict • 40分钟

Indigenous Voices at the Intersection of Environmental & Social Justice • 20分钟

[Optional] Guardians of the Forest • 30分钟

Module 3 Quiz • 30分钟

Personal Leadership Plan, Part 3: Self-Assessment Using the Michigan Model of Leadership • 60分钟

Ladder of Inference • 10分钟

Science of Productive Conflict • 10分钟

[Optional] Guardians of the Forest • 10分钟

Cultural & Systems Change Within Organizations

Leadership is typically exerted through groups of people acting as informal or formal organizations.

In this module, you will explore how organizational culture can be a help or hindrance to sustainability progress, and how to utilize a change management framework to move organizations in a positive direction.

By watching discussions with two experts in culture change and business/philanthropy, you will develop a change management for sustainability leadership framework.

涵盖的内容

4个视频 8篇阅读材料 1个作业 1个应用程序项目 1个讨论话题

Sustainability Leadership Frameworks • 26分钟

Organizational & Cultural Change for Sustainability Conversation with Andrew Hoffman • 23分钟

Corporate Sustainability, Philanthropy & Systems Change Conversation with Neil Hawkins • 26分钟

Organizational Advocacy: Systems Intervention & Change Models • 16分钟

VUCA Leadership • 7分钟

Global Leadership for Sustainability • 10分钟

Policies for Adapting to the New Normal of the Anthropocene • 4分钟

Holding the Fire Podcast Episodes • 10分钟

[Optional ] Line 5 Oil Pipeline Controversy • 10分钟

Five Value Propositions for Sustainability for Companies • 10分钟

Systems Shift By Increment • 10分钟

Places to Intervene in a System • 7分钟

Module 4 Quiz • 30分钟

Personal Leadership Plan, Part 4: Constructing an Action Plan • 60分钟

[Optional] Line 5 Oil Pipeline Controversy • 30分钟

Sustainability Leadership Competencies

This 5th and final module focuses on lifelong learning and building the practical sustainability competencies that allow for growth in the professional world.

You will review the research on what is most needed in the field and hear from two sustainability leaders who have had very different career paths yet have trained many future leaders.

You will finish creating your own sustainability leadership plan utilizing the podcast and final case study about building competencies for success.

涵盖的内容

4个视频 6篇阅读材料 2个作业 1个应用程序项目 4个讨论话题

Sustainability Leadership Competencies: View from the Field • 15分钟

Making Change within Government & Philanthropy: Conversation with Elizabeth Cisar • 25分钟

Building Leadership Competencies Conversation with Lindsey MacDonald • 21分钟

Consolidating Knowledge, Implementing Your Sustainability Leadership Plan • 10分钟

Leadership for Sustainability Podcast and Guides • 10分钟

Leadership Capabilities for the 21st Century • 10分钟

[Optional] Women Walking with Water • 30分钟

Sustainability Leadership Programs: Emerging Goals, Methods & Best Practices • 10分钟

Sustainability Skill Set Podcast • 30分钟

Post-Course Survey • 10分钟

Complete Your Personal Leadership Plan • 1分钟

Module 5 Quiz • 30分钟

Personal Leadership Plan, Part 5: Implementing Your Sustainability Leadership Plan • 60分钟

Leadership for Sustainability Podcast and Guides • 10分钟

[Optional] Women Walking with Water • 10分钟

Sustainability Skillset Podcast • 10分钟

Share Your Leadership Plan Implementation with Other Learners • 10分钟

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