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Principles of Leadership

Leading Technical Teams

Daniel Moorer

This class is about becoming a Great Leader. Great Leaders know how to hire great individuals, form and empower great teams, and delegate to those teams appropriately. Working together with the team, they envision what the organization could be and inspire others to help execute the strategy that will take them there. They protect their team members, empower them, and help them to improve and grow while the team members, in turn, help the organization improve and grow. Great Leaders’ ambition is for the organization and team first, and for themselves a distant second. They combine fierce resolve with personal humility, shunning a more popular, larger-than-life egocentricity. These are the Great Ones: those who build the greatest organizations and who, in the long run, are the most admired.

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This class is about becoming a Great Leader. Great Leaders know how to hire great individuals, form and empower great teams, and delegate to those teams appropriately. Working together with the team, they envision what the organization could be and inspire others to help execute the strategy that will take them there. They protect their team members, empower them, and help them to improve and grow while the team members, in turn, help the organization improve and grow. Great Leaders’ ambition is for the organization and team first, and for themselves a distant second. They combine fierce resolve with personal humility, shunning a more popular, larger-than-life egocentricity. These are the Great Ones: those who build the greatest organizations and who, in the long run, are the most admired.

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.

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Three courses

A Technical Leader's Qualities and Effectiveness

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This course explores the qualities of effective leaders who combine determination with humility. They prioritize serving their team and organization, making tough decisions, and acting with ethical principles and calm determination.

Challenges of Leading Individuals in the Tech Industry

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Great Leaders lead by example, protecting and empowering their teams to improve and grow. Together, they envision the organization's future and inspire others to execute the strategy to achieve it.

Challenges of Leading Technical Teams

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Great Leaders lead by example, protecting, empowering, and developing their team members. Together, they envision the organization's future and inspire others to execute the strategy to achieve it.

Learning objectives

  • 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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