Creo Incubator

Modern Teamwork and Stakeholder Leadership Specialization

Creo Incubator

Modern Teamwork and Stakeholder Leadership Specialization

Lead Modern Teams and Stakeholders.

Build teamwork, hybrid leadership, social intelligence, and stakeholder influence skills.

Martine Abboud

Instructor: Martine Abboud

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Beginner level

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4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Manage stress, pressure, and decision-making challenges in professional and startup environments.

  • Improve teamwork, hybrid collaboration, social awareness, and communication in complex workplace settings.

  • Build stakeholder trust, recognise hidden influence, and sustain support through ethical engagement.

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July 2026

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Specialization - 5 course series

Stress Management for Employees and Startup Founders

Stress Management for Employees and Startup Founders

Course 1, 4 hours

What you'll learn

  • Understand how stress affects judgement, decision-making, behaviour, and leadership under pressure.

  • Recognise workplace and startup stressors, including structural pressure, organisational strain, and identity-related depletion.

  • Apply practical tools and methods to assess, regulate, and manage stress in high-pressure or crisis situations.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Decision Making
Category: Stress Management
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Entrepreneurship
Category: Psychological Evaluations
Category: Biology
Category: Health Assessment
Category: Dealing With Ambiguity
Category: Organizational Structure
Category: Crisis Management
Category: Leadership Studies
Category: Psychology
Category: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Category: Physiology
Category: Resilience
Teamwork: Build and Sustain High-Performing Teams

Teamwork: Build and Sustain High-Performing Teams

Course 2, 12 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify how team purpose, structure, roles, and routines shape performance, alignment, and collective accountability.

  • Analyse hidden influence, informal decision-making, cultural dynamics, and barriers that affect collaboration inside teams.

  • Apply practical frameworks to improve role clarity, team resilience, adaptive capacity, and future-ready teamwork.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Collaboration
Category: Cross-Functional Collaboration
Category: Teamwork
Category: Team Building
Category: Team Collaboration
Category: Trustworthiness
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Accountability
Category: Virtual Teams
Category: Leadership
Category: Drive Engagement
Category: Team Motivation
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Diversity Awareness
Category: Team Management
Category: Organizational Effectiveness
Category: Accountability Frameworks
Category: Intercultural Competence
Category: Cultural Diversity
Category: Team Performance Management

What you'll learn

  • Lead and collaborate effectively in hybrid and remote environments by building trust, coordination, presence, and influence across distance.

  • Recognise how digital cultural intelligence, psychological safety, silent signals, and informal influence shape hybrid teamwork and leadership.

  • Apply ethical digital leadership, AI awareness, governance principles, and resilience practices to support distributed teams during change / crisis.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Trustworthiness
Category: AI literacy
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Cyber Governance
Category: Teamwork
Category: Strategic Leadership
Category: Cultural Responsiveness
Category: Telecommuting
Category: Executive Presence
Category: Leadership
Category: Virtual Teams
Category: Leadership Studies
Category: Team Management
Category: Team Building
Category: Team Leadership
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Recognizing Others
Category: Diversity and Inclusion
Category: Cultural Diversity
Category: Intercultural Competence
Social intelligence

Social intelligence

Course 4, 7 hours

What you'll learn

  • Understand social intelligence through social savvy, how to read subtle cues, sense what remains unspoken, and respond with awareness and timing.

  • Recognise the psychological foundations, development pathways, and barriers that shape social awareness and social behaviour.

  • Apply social savvy to improve communication, manage tension, build trust, and support more inclusive and thoughtful interactions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Empathy & Emotional Intelligence
Category: Social Skills
Category: Tactfulness
Category: Emotional Intelligence
Category: Teamwork
Category: Collaboration
Category: Conflict Management
Category: Verbal Communication Skills
Category: Relationship Building
Category: Diversity Awareness
Category: Interpersonal Communications
Category: Psychology
Category: Personal Attributes
Category: Self-Awareness
Category: Leadership
Category: Trustworthiness
Category: Empathy
Category: Recognizing Others
Category: Non-Verbal Communication
Category: Intercultural Competence
Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management

Course 5, 6 hours

What you'll learn

  • Understand stakeholder influence beyond formal roles by recognising hidden power, silent authority, timing, and crisis dynamics.

  • Apply strategic positioning, message calibration, cultural-ethical intelligence, and legitimacy-building to manage complex stakeholder relationships.

  • Build sustainable stakeholder engagement through alliances, mutual empowerment, structured support, and long-term commitment.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Stakeholder Engagement
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Relationship Building
Category: Influencing
Category: Rapport Building
Category: Business Ethics
Category: Relationship Management
Category: Stakeholder Communications
Category: Trustworthiness
Category: Communication
Category: Strategic Communication
Category: Ethical Standards And Conduct
Category: Stakeholder Analysis
Category: Drive Engagement
Category: Crisis Management
Category: Executive Presence
Category: Strategic Partnership
Category: Communication Strategies
Category: Cultural Responsiveness
Category: Leadership and Management

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Martine Abboud
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