University of Colorado Boulder
Principles of Leadership: Leading Technical Teams Specialization
University of Colorado Boulder

Principles of Leadership: Leading Technical Teams Specialization

Become a Great Leader. Understand critical leadership principles, develop personal leadership traits, explore the challenges of leading individuals and learn strategies for leading a team.

Taught in English

Daniel Moorer

Instructor: Daniel Moorer

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What you'll learn

  • Apply elements of personal effectiveness, including negotiation, managing organizational politics, finding mentors, and converting enemies to allies.

  • Apply practical leadership activities, including defining roles, setting a vision, coaching, dealing with conflicts, and delegation

  • Apply teambuilding activities, including hiring the right team members, building the team, managing the team, and conducting effective meetings.

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Specialization - 3 course series

What you'll learn

  • Understand and apply the principles of establishing a vision for an organization.

  • Understand the value of collaboration in bringing a team together under one vision.

  • Understand why stakeholders are important to any leader's actions and how to manage them.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Negotiation
Category: Relationships
Category: Managing Stakeholders
Category: Collaboration
Category: Resilience

What you'll learn

  • Understand that the culture you establish for your team in critically important for their performance.

  • Understand the value to team development and empowerment when the leader delegates and allows team members to lead.

  • Understand why knowing employees is an essential part of being a leader.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Delegation
Category: Building Teams
Category: Sustaining Engagement
Category: Creating a culture
Category: Transparency

What you'll learn

  • How to develop a new team.

  • How to set a vision for the team and achieve agreement with its goals.

  • How to ask questions properly in order to support making good decisions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Communication
Category: Recruiting
Category: Applying vision
Category: Engaging teams
Category: Asking Questions

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Daniel Moorer
University of Colorado Boulder
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