Learning path

Entrepreneurial Mindset and Self-Leadership

Living in a world full of uncertainties, such as the recent pandemic and geopolitical conflicts, can induce stress and anxiety. Have you noticed challenges in thinking clearly, finding focus, and being creative? If you answered yes, this course might help you regain clarity, boost your well-being, and gain resilience to navigate the uncertainties.

The Entrepreneurial Mindset and Self-Leadership learning path is a set of four self-paced online courses: 

  • External Context - Where are We?
  • Inner Compass - Where do We Want to Go?
  • Mind Flexibility - How Will You Get There?
  • Resilience & Antifragility – How to Keep on Going If Things Get Complicated?

Throughout these courses and the learning path, you will be provided with practical tools that help improve your resilience and help you succeed in your personal and professional life.

Price

150€

Workload

1 ECTS

Type

Self-paced online

Languages

English

Entrepreneurial Mindset and Self-Leadership Path
4 Courses
You must complete 4 of the following items.
External Context - Where are We?
Format:
Self-paced online, Beginner
Required
During this course, we will explore the external context and delve into our perception of the world and how it shapes our reality. We will discuss the effects of chronic anxiety, stress, and information overload. And importantly, we will examine the context of narrow and wide entrepreneurship and how an entrepreneurial mindset can equip us to navigate our world better.
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Inner Compass – Where do You Want to Go?
Format:
Self-paced online, Beginner
Required
In this course, we will focus on our inner compass and discuss the importance of vision, passion, and goals, even when they are unclear or cumbersome. We will explore techniques for designing your life, setting goals and making sense of complexity. This module contains theory and approaches from various fields such as entrepreneurship, design-thinking, and self-leadership.
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Mind Flexibility – How Will You Get There?
Format:
Self-paced online, Beginner
Required
This course provides a range of solutions and tools that you can apply to your thinking on an everyday basis. This course covers topics like stress management, resilience, mindset flexibility, motivation, and creativity.
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Resilience & Antifragility – How to Keep on Going If Things Get Complicated?
Format:
Self-paced online, Beginner
Required
How to keep on going if things get complicated? In this course, we aim to provide you with some answers to this question. We will present the building blocks for your inner core and learn about the elements of antifragility.
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Instructors
  • Avatar of Lidia Rauramo
    Lidia Rauramo

    Lidia Rauramo is an educator in teamwork, leadership, self-leadership, well-being, and entrepreneurship areas, with a current role as a lecturer at Aalto Ventures Program (AVP).

    Lidia contributed to courses like "Good Life Engine," "Startup Philosophy," “Thinking tools”, and "Self-leadership." She was a member of the AVP Management Team and a Team Lead for highly qualified educators. Extensive teaching, coaching, and mentoring experience in organizations across Finland and Russia, including TAMK, XAMK, SAMPO, SLUSH, and more.

    Her journey includes senior project management, medical nuclear industry work, strategic consulting, and ongoing executive leadership coaching studies, supported by two Master's Degrees in Business.

  • Avatar of Kalle Airo
    Kalle Airo

    Kalle Airo serves as the Head of Entrepreneurial Mindset at Aalto University. He is a co-founder of Aalto Ventures Program and developer of Integrated Entrepreneurship Education.

    He is a builder and creator, most often co-creator. He has started and built teams, startups, university units, communities, organizational cultures, courses, experiences, etc., and even an apartment block. However, he didn’t build these things alone. His core skills are leading and teaching, which he uses to make things happen, things that are bigger and more magical than he could build alone.

  • Avatar of Laura Sivula
    Laura Sivula

    Laura Sivula is a Business Area Director and educator at Aalto University with a passion for lifewide learning and the future of work. She has taught service design, digital business, and entrepreneurship at Aalto University and University of Arts Helsinki. Laura is an advocate for life design and has been collaborating with Stanford d.school in developing the methodology further.

Learning Outcomes

After the completion of the course, you will

  • Know yourself better and understand what your motivating factor is.
  • Be able to reflect on your worldview, define strategic life goals, and plan your journey towards the defined goals.
  • Gain time-management skills essential for your journey towards the defined goals.
  • Acquire a tool kit that can be used to tackle anxiety and stress.
  • Master techniques that help you to stay resilient and build your inner core.
For?

This course is designed for individuals who want to develop their self-leadership skills as leaders or specialists. This course has no prerequisites, and we welcome learners from diverse disciplines from all around the globe.

The course is particularly suitable for

  • Young leaders
  • New managers
  • New entrepreneurs
  • Persons transitioning from studies to working life
  • Individuals navigating professional transitions, whether it be embarking on a new role or joining a new organization.