Become an Effective Engineering Leader
Advance your engineering career into leadership and management roles.
Every engineer has the potential to be a great leader.
Deepen your understanding of teamwork, strategic planning, and motivation to turn that potential into reality.
GET EDUCATED
INTRODUCING
Leadership Development for Engineers
- Technical Expertise: Taught by instructors with a deep engineering background.
- Real-world Case Studies: Dive into engineering challenges faced in today's industry.
- Hands-on Projects: Apply your knowledge to tackle engineering scenarios.
Industry-Relevant - Curriculum: Aligned with current engineering and management trends.
Upon completing the course, you'll emerge as a confident, skilled leader ready to inspire teams and drive innovation in the engineering realm.
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Recognize your own leadership strengths and learn how to leverage them effectively.
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Develop techniques to manage stress and harness creativity in problem-solving.
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Acquire practical tools and techniques that can be immediately applied in your engineering career.
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Cultivate skills for building and maintaining professional networks and relationships.
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Gain knowledge on how to guide and support others in their professional journey.
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Learn strategies to handle disagreements and establish a harmonious workplace.
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Understand how to establish and grow your influence in professional settings.
COURSE STRUCTURE
(85 study hours including homework and tests)
MODULE I
Self Awareness and the Effective Leader
You will also build a tool kit of useful techniques that you can begin using right away in your engineering career.
- Leadership Foundations: Outline competencies, understand future challenges, and assess personal skills.
- Personal Development Tools: Craft a life purpose statement and embrace self-assessment for strengths and weaknesses.
- Strategic Management: Master time prioritization, stress leverage, and analytical vs. creative problem-solving
- Creativity Enhancement: Implement mind mapping to foster personal innovation and address conceptual blocks.
MODULE II
Relationship Management
Learn to coach and mentor others, manage conflict and build power and influence in the workplace.
- Communication & Interaction: Master active listening, feedback delivery and reception, supportive communication, and coaching within teams.
- Power & Influence: Delve into sources of power, influence strategies, and techniques for neutralizing influence.
- Conflict & Resolution: Explore conflict sources, management styles, and collaborative problem-solving approaches.
- Effective Meetings: Navigate from pre-meeting planning to post-meeting actions, optimizing meeting efficiency and effectiveness.
MODULE III
Personal Leadership Development Planning and Leading High Performing Teams
In this module, you will build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals within the next two years.
- Leadership Development & Planning: Understand leadership competency prioritization, identify skill gaps, and execute actionable plans with effective tools like annual appraisals.
- Goal Setting & Tracking: Define personal greatness, utilize SMART goals, manage performance proactively, and ensure alignment using the Balanced Scorecard.
- Team Dynamics & Performance: Dive into the model of group development, project team life cycles, high-performing team characteristics, and strategies for team mobilization.
- Performance & Motivation: Address performance issues, create motivating environments, empower and delegate tasks effectively, and understand intrinsic motivation and recognition strategies.
This Bootcamp Is For You If...
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Professional Engineers: For those looking to expand their career horizons by complementing their engineering skills with leadership competencies.
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Early Career Engineers: For engineers at the outset of their careers, aiming to establish strong leadership skills right from the start.
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Team Leaders: For engineers already leading small teams and aiming to elevate the efficacy of their leadership.
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Engineers Seeking Change: For those feeling stagnant in their career and wanting to develop new skills to unlock fresh opportunities.
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Ambitious Engineers: For those envisioning themselves in higher managerial positions and aiming to acquire the requisite skills to reach that goal.
NICE TO MEET YOU
LEARN FROM EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS
David Van Kleeck Professor in the Practice of Engineering Leadership, Rice University
David joined the staff of the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) in August 2014 following a 34 year career as a Technologist and Manager in Shell’s research and development organization. During his Shell career, he held a variety of positions in which he was responsible for process development, manufacturing technical service, and product support to several downstream refining and chemical businesses. David’s research and management experience includes work in the detergents, solvents, resins, and glycols businesses. He was also active in Shell’s recruiting efforts for over fourteen years as a campus interviewer (Princeton, MIT, University of Houston, Rice).
"The tools provided by the course leave you prepared to face the challenges that you will face as a team leader in the future, both in your career and personally."
- RM, May 2022
"I discovered the importance of supportive communication and how to practice it at work but also in the private life and the difference between coaching and counselling."
- Gianni C, March 2021
"The course goes beyond the description of SMART goals and team dynamics so as to disclose the implications on team performance and the ways to recover a derailed situation."
- GC, March 2021
GET ADDITIONAL ACCESS TO COURSERA UPON TIMELY COMPLETION
Complete the program on time and earn additional access to the Coursera learning environment, giving you an opportunity to take advanced courses and continue growing your skills.
Expected study time: 1.5 month.
Complete in one month for two months' bonus access to Coursera.
Course
990 €
including VAT
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Leadership Development for Engineers
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