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. Whether it's drafting communication materials, orchestrating leadership transitions, or augmenting decision-making processes, this gateways offers the keys to mastering Generative AI, equipping leaders to outpace the transformative impact of the internet with advanced prompt engineering skills for a vast array of tasks in their careers and beyond. With only basic computer skills as a prerequisite, this comprehensive journey accelerates participants from basic command formulation to sophisticated problem-solving prompt development, propelling leadership into an AI-augmented future.

Leaders are constantly seeking innovative tools to amplify their impact. Dive into the realm of Generative AI, a groundbreaking technology poised to redefine the leadership landscape more profoundly than the Internet itself. This course offers a comprehensive journey into understanding, applying, and mastering Generative AI as a robust tool to amplify leadership capabilities.

You will gain hands-on experience that teaches you to use Generative AI for:

- Agenda Architecting: Let Generative AI craft impeccable agendas for you. Say goodbye to oversight and hello to perfectly planned meetings.

- Proposal Proficiency: Dive deep into complex proposals with AI by your side. Identify risks, ambiguities, and potential pitfalls with laser-sharp precision.

- Your Private Think-Tank: Use Generative AI as a confidential thought partner. Brainstorm, strategize, and refine your ideas with an AI confidant that's always ready.

- Masterful Communication: Draft emails, documents, and crucial materials with eloquence and precision. Let Generative AI be your co-author, ensuring your communications resonate with impact.

- Navigating HR Dynamics: Explore challenging HR conversations with added insight. Generative AI assists you in understanding nuances and guiding delicate conversations towards positive outcomes.

- Seamless Leadership Transitions: Whether it's you moving up the ladder or a team member stepping into a new role, Generative AI aids in ensuring smooth transitions. Plan, strategize, and execute leadership handovers with unparalleled confidence.


In addition to these key hands-on tasks, you will quickly come up to speed on how to innovate with Generative AI, and explore:

- Deep Dive into Generative AI: Grasp the underlying principles of Generative AI and its transformative potential. Equip yourself to make critical decisions about implementing Generative AI in your organization, ensuring you stay ahead in the modern leadership curve.

- Augmented Intelligence - The New Frontier: Discover how Generative AI acts as an 'Exoskeleton for the Mind', enhancing your cognitive capabilities. Witness firsthand how Augmented Intelligence is not just a concept but a revolutionary way to supercharge your leadership style.

- Boost Your Productivity: No more starting from scratch! Learn how Generative AI can be your assistant, creating agendas, drafting emails, generating documents, and much more. Experience a dramatic surge in efficiency, getting your work 50% to 80% completed before you even begin.

- Addressing Staff Anxiety: In a world where AI is often viewed with skepticism, understand how to navigate the waters of staff anxiety. Discover how to effectively communicate the capabilities and limitations of Generative AI, ensuring a seamless integration into your organization.

- Beyond the Internet - The Generative AI Revolution: Understand why experts are heralding Generative AI as a technological marvel surpassing the transformative impact of the Internet. Prepare yourself for the future of leadership in an AI-augmented world.

Generative AI for Leaders

ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an  expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap into these generative AI tools' emergent intelligence and reasoning, how you can use them to be more productive day to day, and give you insight into how they work.

Large language models respond to instructions and questions posed by users in natural language statements, known as “prompts”. Although large language models will disrupt many fields, most users lack the skills to write effective prompts. Expert users, who understand how to write good prompts, are orders of magnitude more productive and can unlock significantly more creative uses for these tools.

This course introduces students to the patterns and approaches for writing effective prompts for large language models.  Anyone can take the course and the only required knowledge is basic computer usage skills, such as using a browser and accessing ChatGPT. Students will start with basic prompts and build towards writing sophisticated prompts to solve problems in any domain. By the end of the course, students will have strong prompt engineering skills and be capable of using large language models for a wide range of tasks in their job, business, personal life, and education, such as writing, summarization, game play, planning, simulation, and programming.

Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

We see lots of news reports of Generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, making mistakes and producing inaccurate information. Many of these mistakes happen because humans use the tools in the wrong way - trying to solve unsuitable problems and not thinking about risk. Hallucination isn't a bug, it's a feature when you approach problems correctly. This course teaches techniques for determining if a problem fits Generative AI's capabilities, framing problems to reduce risk, prompt engineering for trust, and appropriate human engagement in the process. Students learn concrete prompt designs, how to check outputs, how to use Generative AI for ideation and creation, ways to augment human skills, and more ethical, beneficial applications.

The course will show how you can:

- Leverage prompt engineering techniques to generate more reliable outputs
- Master methods to verify and validate outputs
- Frame problems in alternative ways to reduce risk
- Apply generative AI for creative ideation
- Use Generative AI in ways that augment rather than replace human reasoning and creativity

Generative AI Leadership & Strategy Specialization

About the Program

Description

Deliverables

0 Credits

Academic Excellence

IBM Project Manager$375

Google Digital Marketing & Commerce$375

Google Project Management$375

Meta Marketing Analytics$375

Entrepreneurship and Small Business$300.56

IBM Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst$375

ADP Entry-Level Compensation and Benefits Analyst Professional Certificate$375

ADP Entry-Level Payroll Specialist Professional Certificate$375

Microsoft Copilot: Your Everyday AI Companion$375

Microsoft Copilot for Sales$375