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Purpose Strategy and Vision

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Purpose Strategy and Vision

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Advanced level

Recommended experience

9 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Create leadership charters that translate Responsible AI principles into quarterly behaviors and OKRs.

  • Facilitate Golden Circle workshops and analyze vision alignment across business units.

  • Draft mission statements using values mapping and measure clarity through pulse surveys.

  • Design values-tracking dashboards and alignment matrices that link team goals to organizational purpose.

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July 2026

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There are 13 modules in this course

Before building anything new, effective leaders assess what already exists. This module teaches you to read the signals of purpose misalignment and decide whether your organization needs a new charter or refinement of existing artifacts.

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3 videos1 reading2 assignments

With your diagnosis complete, it's time to build. This module guides you through creating a leadership charter that connects Responsible AI principles to concrete quarterly behaviors and measurable OKRs your team can act on.

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2 videos2 readings2 assignments

A charter only matters if it drives change. This module teaches you to measure charter effectiveness by correlating trust data with OKR attainment, then adjust based on what the data reveals.

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3 videos1 reading2 assignments

Before running a vision workshop, you need to understand why alignment is missing and choose the right format for your context. This module teaches you to distinguish between clarity, communication, and strategic disagreement—and select the workshop approach that fits your stakeholders.

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3 videos1 reading2 assignments

Now you're ready to run the workshop. This module walks you through facilitating a Golden Circle session in Microsoft Teams, using Whiteboard for visual capture and Copilot to accelerate drafting of Why/How/What statements.

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2 videos2 readings1 assignment

The workshop produces draft statements, but the real work is ensuring alignment sticks. This module teaches you to map business unit objectives to your new vision canvas, identify gaps, and refine statements based on resistance patterns.

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2 videos1 reading3 assignments

Learn the Barrett Values framework for understanding organizational culture and use it to ground your mission statement in authentic values. You'll draft a concise 40-word statement using Copilot iterations, refining for clarity, memorability, and alignment with your organization's actual culture.

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2 videos2 readings2 assignments

Learn to measure whether your mission statement actually resonates with employees. You'll design and launch a Viva Pulse survey targeting mission clarity, analyze results against an 80% "strongly agree" benchmark, and iterate on wording based on feedback.

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2 videos2 readings2 assignments

Tracking every decision creates noise; tracking none creates no accountability. This module teaches you to define which decisions are worth tracking and design a Power BI dashboard that makes value alignment visible.

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3 videos2 readings1 assignment1 ungraded lab

A tracker is only useful if you act on what it reveals. This module teaches you to run quarterly reviews that evaluate value alignment and adjust your tracking approach when data quality degrades.

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2 videos1 reading3 assignments

Alignment happens when every team can see how their work connects to organizational purpose. This module teaches you to build a cascading matrix that makes those connections explicit and actionable.

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3 videos1 reading2 assignments

A matrix reveals alignment gaps when you analyze it systematically. This module teaches you to use Copilot-generated heat maps to identify low-linkage teams and propose realignments.

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2 videos2 readings2 assignments

Integrate everything you've learned about purpose strategy into a portfolio-ready leadership package. You'll create a purpose charter with linked OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), a cascading alignment matrix section, and an effectiveness measurement plan—documenting your approach in a format you can share with stakeholders or use in performance conversations while recognizing that strong alignment on paper does not always translate to consistent execution.

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4 readings1 assignment

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