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How to apply a set of practical analytical techniques to support business planning and strategic decision making How to encourage multiple stakeholders with different interests to cooperate How to recognize team dynamics and manage both individual and team issues How to enlist the support of top management and their teams
4 months. 4 - 5 hours per week suggested.
3 virtual courses in soft skills
Most of the challenges organizations face are related to technology.
Given the growing importance of technology, the demand for leaders with an engineering background is likely to increase.
Already a quarter of the CEOs of the world's 100 largest corporations have engineering degrees.
Engineers have the potential to be good leaders.
They are analytical and tech savvy.
They are comfortable with numbers.
They often have a positive attitude.
However, these characteristics alone are not enough for engineers to be effective leaders.
In this program, you will learn that a good leader needs at least three mindsets, which support the development of essential leadership skills: The Analytical Mindset: This mindset is about the ability to analyze complex problems and opportunities as a basis for making strategic decisions.
It is about systematically developing a strategy and preparing for action.
This mindset harnesses the strengths of engineers.
The Influence Mindset: Designing Solutions and Strategies, however, is more than analysis.
In our complex, interconnected world, leaders face stakeholders, both internal and external, who may have completely different points of view.
Problems and challenges are often ambiguous.
This mindset looks at all of these issues and finds common ground and ways to produce willing consensus across teams and stakeholders.
The Sense-Making Mindset: The first two mindsets require a high tolerance for complexity.
Leadership is also about communicating, inspiring and convincing people and teams inside and outside the organization.
This mindset is about translating complexity into powerful, concise messages so people can understand and make sense of the complexity of their world.
These three mindsets are essential for good leaders.
Sometimes they conflict and often require completely different skills.
In this program, you'll become familiar with each of these mindsets and discover how they can support you as a leader.
By completing this certificate, you will enhance your leadership skills through tasks that help you develop a managerial brief from a business situation analysis to inform an effective decision, use a set of cohesive strategies to deal with stakeholders, and frame your communication .
Sometimes they conflict and often require completely different skills.
In this program, you'll become familiar with each of these mindsets and discover how they can support you as a leader.
By completing this certificate, you will enhance your leadership skills through tasks that help you develop a managerial brief from a business situation analysis to inform an effective decision, use a set of cohesive strategies to deal with stakeholders, and frame your communication .
Sometimes they conflict and often require completely different skills.
In this program, you'll become familiar with each of these mindsets and discover how they can support you as a leader.
By completing this certificate, you will enhance your leadership skills through tasks that help you develop a managerial brief from a business situation analysis to inform an effective decision, use a set of cohesive strategies to deal with stakeholders, and frame your communication .
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