- Organizational Culture
- Value Proposition
- High-Performance Teams
- Relationship-Building
- Leadership
- Value of Executive Presence
- Your Personality Type and How You Impact Others
- How to Build a Highly Performing Team
- Your Top 5 Strengths
- Understand the power of corporate culture
- How organizational leaders are ultimately accountable for meeting commitments
- How different situations require different decision-making techniques and how to avoid decision bias.
Principles of Leadership: Leading Technical Organizations Specialization
Create Value by Accountable, Authentic Leadership. Play to your strengths, know your impact on others and inspire your team to be their best.
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Principles of Leadership: Leading Technical Organizations SpecializationUniversity of Colorado BoulderWhat you will learn
By successfully completing this specialization, you will be able to build an integrated team of effective leaders and multiply their abilities.
You will be able to describe how leaders are accountable for meeting commitments and deploy strategies for effective relationship building.
And you will be able to identify the skills required of organizational leaders that can be honed in entry-level positions.
By successfully completing this course, you will be able to describe your personal leadership style.
Skills you will gain
About this Specialization
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This specialization explores how a leader multiplies their abilities by leading through others and that one's executive presence is essential to be a leader of leaders. The first key to success is building a team of exceptional, diverse leaders who are deeply involved in talent acquisition, development and retention activities. Learners will study how organizational leaders use different decision-making processes for different situations and that they are ultimately accountable for all results. Techniques for building enduring relationships that have a multiplicative impact on business success will be examined. This specialization provides insight into big picture considerations that organizational leaders must take into account when strategizing, planning and performing large scale technical endeavors.
This specialization can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (ME-EM) degree offered on the Coursera platform. The ME-EM is designed to help engineers, scientists, and technical professionals move into leadership and management roles in the engineering and technical sectors. With performance-based admissions and no application process, the ME-EM is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience. Learn more about the ME-EM program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/me-engineering-management-boulder.
Applied Learning Project
Each week students will explore leadership topics through knowledge-check quizzes, readings, and responding to a real life leadership scenario with a one page paper. The leadership scenario responses are graded on an understanding of the topic, application of your strengths and personality type and a professionally written response. These one page responses will be graded by 3 peer reviewers against a rubric. Writing a very good one-page paper can be more difficult than writing a much longer piece. This is one of the most important and practical types of writing to master. Being a peer reviewer encourages you to be a critical thinker and enhances your communication skills. Peer reviews teach you how to communicate positive and constructive feedback, a critical leadership skill.
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Includes hands on learning projects.
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Beginner Level
Approximately 4 months to complete
Suggested pace of 4 hours/week
English
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Try Coursera for BusinessShareable Certificate
Earn a Certificate upon completion
100% online courses
Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
Coursera Labs
Includes hands on learning projects.
Learn more about Coursera Labs Flexible Schedule
Set and maintain flexible deadlines.
Beginner Level
Approximately 4 months to complete
Suggested pace of 4 hours/week
English
Could your company benefit from training employees on in-demand skills?
Try Coursera for BusinessHow the Specialization Works
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A Coursera Specialization is a series of courses that helps you master a skill. To begin, enroll in the Specialization directly, or review its courses and choose the one you'd like to start with. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Specialization, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Specialization. It’s okay to complete just one course — you can pause your learning or end your subscription at any time. Visit your learner dashboard to track your course enrollments and your progress.
Hands-on Project
Every Specialization includes a hands-on project. You'll need to successfully finish the project(s) to complete the Specialization and earn your certificate. If the Specialization includes a separate course for the hands-on project, you'll need to finish each of the other courses before you can start it.
Earn a Certificate
When you finish every course and complete the hands-on project, you'll earn a Certificate that you can share with prospective employers and your professional network.
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