Welcome to the Coursera Inspirational Leadership Specialization's capstone course!
You'll use the skills learned in the Specialization over the next six weeks to solve a real-world leadership problem.
We will offer one capstone project to help you better achieve your goals for taking this Specialization.
Personal leadership challenge
Your Capstone peers will assess you and help you choose a project. Whatever option you choose, your capstone project will assess your abilities, such as self-awareness and the ability to develop quality relationships and trust. It will also test your resilience and demonstrate a strong sense for responsibility.
You will be asked a personal question about your leadership potential. You can set a challenge as a goal (starting a business, managing a project, designing products, winning competitions, etc.) that will help you to define what you want and how you plan to accomplish it. The Capstone will help to measure the challenge and create a plan that will lead you to your goals.
No matter what personal challenge you are facing, these questions will test your ability to critically analyze and critique the situation.
The Business plan process will be guided by the relational circuit model that was developed in MOOC2 ("Giving Sense To Your Leadership Experience") and MOOC3 ("Leading Organizations"), which has its two phases of exploration and projection.
The EXPLORATION will allow you to engage in a holistic view of the problem. You will use your rational skills to provide perspective and express your subjective understanding of the situation. Your analytical skills will be required to fully understand the role of each component (elements relevant to the problem) in the exploration. The third stage of exploration is where you'll use your relational skills to make sense of the situation and link your subjective perceptions with your analysis. Before you can proceed, you will share your exploration results with others to get feedback.
The PROJECTION phase of your business plan leads to recommendations regarding the personal problem at hand. The projection phase will allow you to first examine the potential situation if you can decenter the problem in space and time. You will create different scenarios using benchmark and competitive analysis. In order to make sense of the situation, you will create recommendations that support a preferred scenario.
