The Digital Leader

Unit 1- Leading with digital technology

• Getting ahead of the curve using digital technology.
• Leading an organisation in the digital era
• effectively leading organisations in the digital era
• ensuring your organisation’s digital DNA is equipped for the digital era
• Spotting the threats and opportunities for digital disruption
• Strategies you can use to become digitally literate
• Engaging effectively as a leader using digital technology to communicate

Unit 2 – Thrive in an era of digital turbulence

• Tools for thriving when digital advances intensify turbulence.
• Facing reality in real time
• Vigilant organisations
• Managing organisational attention
• Sensing weak signals sooner
• Tackling ambiguity
• Taking timely action
• Vigilance—an agenda for action
• Forewarned is forearmed—six lessons about vigilance

Unit 3 – When innovation moves at digital speed

• How to catalyse innovation in your organisation
• Harnessing the secret structure of innovation
• Developing innovative solutions through internal crowd sourcing
• Collaborating with customer communities
• Strategic perspectives
• Finding a lower-risk path to high-impact innovations
• Why design thinking in business needs a rethink
• Developing new products in emerging markets
• Managing the challenges
• Managing tensions between new and existing business models
• Why great new products fail
• Creating better innovation measurement practices

Unit 4 – What the digital future holds

• Managing the bots that are managing the business
• Predicting a future where the future is routinely predicted
• Using artificial intelligence to set information free
• What to expect from artificial intelligence technology
• How blockchain will change organisations
• Is your company ready to operate as a market?
• The end of corporate culture as we know it
• Unleashing creativity with digital technology
• Rethinking the manager’s role
• The three new skills managers need
• Ethics and the algorithm
• The jobs that artificial intelligence will create
• Tackling the world’s challenges with technology

Unit 5 – Soft skills and the future

• The value of people is uniquely human
• Soft skills will become more valuable in the future.
• Creative, empathetic and strategic emotional and intellectual space
• Employees going into survival mode due to anxiety or ill health
• Taking frequent breaks helps people refresh and re-energise
• Making soft skills more readily available for use.

Unit 6 – Supporting employees in a changing world

• Human behaviours like empathy require a rested brain, and when employees are stressed, they have a harder time using those skills.
• Help employees reduce anxieties by simply talking through issues.
• Influencing and transforming jobs is one way of confronting anxiety.
• Lessening fear by mapping out the ways in which jobs and companies will change
• Focusing on lifelong learning in human behavioural skills.

Unit 7 – Humans and machines

• Most jobs are made up of multiple tasks, not just one single activity.
• Machines will be able to take over or assist in simple, repetitive tasks.
• Soft skills, such as empathy, decision-making, and intuition, can’t be replicated by machines.
• The value of human workers will always lie in their creative and emotional skills.
• Machines will definitely impact work, but human skills will always be in demand.

Unit 8 – Adopting a new mindset for the digital era

• Shifting a mindset to become more agile and adaptable.
• Focusing on outcomes not processes
• Allow for the uncertainty that comes with change and innovation.
• Leaders need to try new things by placing small bets
• Focus on the big ideas that will transform an organisation.
• Digital leaders need to communicate in ways that invite collaboration and engagement
• Challenge assumptions

Unit 9 – Your company’s digital DNA

• Integrating digital technology into every aspect of organisations
• Getting everyone on board with using and inventing digital technology
• Developing good relationships with IT department employees
• Modelling the use of digital technology for other employees.
• Identify and cultivate digitally savvy talent
• People who refuse to adapt and adopt digital tools may need to find a different work environment.

Unit 10 – 50 Digital Team-Building Games

• How to lead a simple, fast, fun team building activities
• How to create successful “virtual” team building
• How to engage standoffish engineers, “hard to reach” technical teams, or Gen X/Y teammates with technology they enjoy using
• Successful technology-based team building

• Build critically important relationships and communication internally

Unit 11 – Disrupt or be disrupted

• Handling digital disruption correctly
• Digital disruption is the new normal for businesses

• Trying out digital technology for yourself
• Talking to leaders and employees about what is changing
• Choosing a team of advisors who track and try digital tools
• Monitoring disruptions that happen in other industries
• Paying attention to larger market trends is important.

Unit 12 – Becoming digitally literate

• Mastering digital technology and tools for the workplace.

• Setting aside time for learning anything new
• Learning digital technology is both theory and application.
• Creating a habit of using digital technologies
• Organisations are using more digital strategies
• Leaders who can use digital technology.
• Having leaders who are able to operate in the digital sphere

Unit 13 – Driving digital business transformation

• Leaders driving digital business transformation

• Leaders are responsible for helping to drive this transformation.
• Understanding the organisation’s digital strategy and the overall transformation process.
• The value that technologies and technological trends add to a department or function.
• Understanding the technologies themselves and the operating practices and methodologies

Unit 14 – Align digital tools with objectives

• Digital tools are only as useful as you make them.

• Myriad tools are available to leaders, but if they don’t match up to goals, they won’t improve leadership.
• When your goals and objectives are clear, you can get the digital tools you need to get the job done.
• If a tool isn’t helping you achieve your goals as a leader, it isn’t worth bothering with.
• Relationships are always top priority; never put technology first.

Unit 15 – Engagement in digital spaces

• Leaders need to be able to operate with confidence in digital spaces.
• The format of digital spaces can create nervousness in some leaders.

• Confident leaders can use digital space for open communication
• Levels of engagement that happen in face-to-face conversation can happen in a digital space.
• Engagement that happens in a digital channel can transform work relationships.

Unit 16 – Listening at scale in digital spaces

• Listening in the digital realm differs from how leaders listened in the past
• Are your listening skills effective in today’s digital spaces?
• Engaged leaders must be able to listen at scale to the people they want to inspire.

• Listening is different in digital spaces
• Listening into conversations in social channels, such as Twitter, as well as internal digital channels.

Unit 17 – Ethics for a digital era

• Exploring new methods and models for ethical inquiry in a digital world
• The evolution of digital technologies has transformed the way the world communicates and digests information.
• Examining social and ethical consequences.
• Shifts in media ethics

Unit 18 – Understanding the first generation of digital natives

• The first generation of “digital natives”
• Children born into and raised in the digital world
• How are they different from the older generation
• What does identity mean for young people who have dozens of online profiles and avatars?
• Privacy issues
• Essential reading for parents, teachers, and the myriad of confused adults who want to understand the digital present – and shape the digital future.

Unit 19 – Digital communication

• Communication technology of computer networks, the internet and the WWW.
• fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication
• Encoding principles and algorithms of textual information
• Audio information, as well as images, graphics, and video in the Internet.
• Fundamentals of computer networking, digital security and cryptography

Unit 20 – Digital adaptation

• Stubborn management entangled in dated workflows and inefficient processes.
• Techniques and strategies that will help senior management understand the Web and adapt the business, culture, teams and workflows accordingly.
• overcome their legacy, and help you plant the seeds of change with very little power

Unit 21 – Digital Outcasts

• Understanding how people with disabilities use technology
• Emerging legal and cultural impact of inclusive design
• Everyday services that many people take for granted
• Poorly designed products risk alienating this important (and growing) population.
• Gain a better understanding of how people with disabilities use technology
• Discover pitfalls and approaches to help you stay current in your UX practices
• Anticipating a future in which ambient benefit can be achieved for people of all abilities and backgrounds

Unit 22 – 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence

• Take full advantage of everything the digital age has to offer, while avoiding common pitfalls that can damage your “digital legacy.”
• Become an effective digital leader.
• Explaining what modern leadership means
• How to be an effective leader in the digital world.
• Adjusting your leadership skills to adapt to today’s digitally open world
• Simple: success is the result of simplification and focus
• True: be true to your passion
• Act: nothing happens without action–take the first step
• Map: goals and visions are needed to get where you want to be

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If you do not achieve a competency result on your first attempt, you have two more attempts to pass your assessment. So, you have three attempts in total to obtain a competency result.

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In this course, you will be assessed via multiple-choice questions to determine your mastery of details and specific knowledge gained during your studies to achieve a ‘competent’ or ‘not yet competent’ result.

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• Appropriate for assessing students’ mastery of details and specific knowledge.
• Can be used to assess both simple knowledge and complex concepts.
• Questions can be answered quickly to accurately assess a students’ mastery of many topics relatively quickly.
• Assessment can be quickly and reliably scored to achieve a ‘competent’ or ‘not yet competent’ result.
• As the answers are visible, multiple-choice questions offer the opportunity for the continuation of the learning process, offering educational value.

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