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Data-Driven Leadership

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Leaders increasingly make decisions based on analyses, dashboards, and metrics produced by other people. This Data-Driven Leadership Skill Path builds the judgment to interrogate that evidence rather than take it at face value. You'll learn to assess whether an analysis is trustworthy, make the right decisions when the data is imperfect, and pressure-test reasoning before acting on it.

This path is for you if you're a manager, director, or someone who consumes data more than you produce it. No statistical background or tools experience is required; the ability to read a basic chart is enough. By the end of this skill path you'll be able to treat data as an argument to be scrutinized rather than an answer to be accepted, judge whether an analysis is worth trusting, decide and defend a course of action on imperfect data, and build the same habits in the people you lead.

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Data-Driven Leadership

By the end of this skill path you'll be able to treat data as an argument to be scrutinized rather than an answer to be accepted, judge whether an analysis is worth trusting, decide and defend a course of action on imperfect data, and build the same habits in the people you lead.

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What You'll Learn
  • Thinking with Data
  • Reading Data Critically
  • Deciding Using Data Under Uncertainty
  • Building a Data-informed Team
Prerequisites
  • Some leadership experience would be beneficial, but not required.
Related topics
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Management
  • Data
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