Course 1: Effective Decision Making: Dealing with Business Complexity Learn how to solve complex problems in a business environment using analysis-based decision making.
Course 2: Dealing with Power and Dynamics: Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders Learn to lead teams and manage stakeholders effectively and strategically to encourage cooperation and successful performance.
Course 3: Framing Your Communication to Inspire and Convince Discover how to gain support from management and motivate your teams by learning how to communicate effectively and strategically.
Course 2: Dealing with Power and Dynamics: Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders Learn to lead teams and manage stakeholders effectively and strategically to encourage cooperation and successful performance.
Course 3: Framing Your Communication to Inspire and Convince Discover how to gain support from management and motivate your teams by learning how to communicate effectively and strategically.
Effective Decision Making: Dealing with Business Complexity
As an engineer in a leadership position, you will be faced with new responsibilities and tasks. These may include developing a business (unit) strategy and a business plan or being involved in strategic planning. Your success in dealing with these new responsibilities will largely depend on your ability to have a helicopter view of a situation and to make sound decisions.
In order to make decisions to move organizations forward, leaders will need to ensure that business goals are achievable and well-balanced while also taking into account the uncertainty of future developments. In a complex business environment, a sound strategy is the result of applying an analytical mindset and using a systematic approach to decision making.
This course will help you to build and apply an analytical toolkit including:
stakeholder goal trees to develop a clear set of measurable goals,
scenarios to prepare for future situations that may be different from what you expect,
multi-criteria analysis to assess which decisions can help you reach your goals.
The focus of the course will be on utilizing your analytical skills in a business context, allowing you to unravel complex situations requiring decisions.
Upon completion of this course, you will have been introduced to an analytical mindset and toolkit, and you will have used these in order to write a managerial summary of a business situation analysis to inform an effective decision for your business strateg
Dealing with Power and Dynamics: Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders
In our interconnected and complex world, leaders are faced with both internal and external stakeholders. Problems have to be solved within complex networks of stakeholders, each with their own dynamics, interests, perspectives and power. As leaders, engineers have clear advantages: they are analytical, technically skilled, project-based, good with numbers and well-used to problem-solving. However, engineers cannot rely on this skillset alone when exercising leadership in today's world.
In this course you will learn how to develop and apply an influencing mindset, which will allow you to lead your team effectively and to successfully manage stakeholders. The course gives you the tools to operate within a network of stakeholders: distinguish power and interests in networks of stakeholders build trust recognize roles and norms in groups deal with conflict and cooperation motivate group members identify your own leadership style Upon completion of this course you will be introduced to an influencing mindset and toolkit, in order to use a set of cohesive strategies for dealing with stakeholders - both cooperative and non-cooperative stakeholders.
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