Discover the transformative power of the popular Leadership Essentials Certificate (LEC) program, tailored to your unique learning journey. With only five elective units to complete in any sequence, this program will equip you with the vital leadership skills required for high-impact roles in any function. Delve into self-awareness, understand your professional environment, and decode the dynamics of those around you. This program is designed for technical professionals aspiring to lead, communicate, inspire, and take action effectively. Elevate your leadership and communicative prowess with Caltech CTME's Leadership Essentials Certificate Program.
Discover the transformative power of the popular Leadership Essentials Certificate (LEC) program, tailored to your unique learning journey. With only five elective units to complete in any sequence, this program will equip you with the vital leadership skills required for high-impact roles in any function. Delve into self-awareness, understand your professional environment, and decode the dynamics of those around you. This program is designed for technical professionals aspiring to lead, communicate, inspire, and take action effectively. Elevate your leadership and communicative prowess with Caltech CTME's Leadership Essentials Certificate Program.
Program Experience
The Leadership Essentials Certificate Program catalyzes the development of emerging leaders by equipping them with essential leadership skills such as communicating clearly and forcefully, understanding different leadership styles, providing clear direction and motivation, and cultivating effective and collaborative team culture. Students learn from industry leaders how to formulate a unique vision for success—and how to implement transformational goals using critical skills: building high-performance teams, influencing others to action and negotiating strategically.
This modular series program allows you the option to build the right competencies at the right time. Complete any five short courses to design your own experience, tailoring a certificate for your specific needs. FlexCert offers personalized learning options for your certificate in Advanced Project Management, Leadership Essentials, or Future Skills Academy. Choose relevant topics, pace your learning, and enhance skills aligned with career goals, providing flexibility and choice.
Pre-recorded lectures are on-demand to fit your busy schedule. Instructors may host live office hours or reviews online, which you can attend at your option. Each course is available for four weeks and takes about 16 hours of effort to complete, including readings and assignments.
Benefits
In our leadership courses, you will increase your knowledge and skills for creating a compelling vision, building high-performance teams, influencing others to action, and negotiating strategically.
Some of the benefits participants discover:
Assess your personal leadership style and skills
Write and present with clear logic and structure
Provide positive team direction and motivation
Develop a collaborative team culture and reduce conflict
Enhance team problem-solving and decision-making
Influence without alienating or without authority
Manage the balance of power in a negotiation
With a FlexCert certificate for Leadership Essentials, you are empowered with personalization. Complete only five courses to obtain a Caltech certificate that fits your specific goals. You can select topics most relevant to your career, learn at a pace that suits your lifestyle, and develop skills that align with your professional goals. This flexibility and choice enable you to tailor your education to your needs, creating a truly unique learning experience from Caltech CTME.
Topics
Leading Organizational change
Your personal mindset regarding change
The impacts of change – personal, project, organizational
Entrepreneurial Motivation
Stages of the Entrepreneurial Process
Cognitive and Unconscious Biases
Emotional Intelligence
VPS model for Individual Growth
OrGro model for Organizational Growth
Productivity, Expectations and Perspective
Resilience
Dealing with uncertainty
Neuroscience of fear
Growth from the inside out
Hours and Credits: Participants will earn 1.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for each two-day course attended.
Complete only five courses to obtain a Caltech certificate that fits your specific goals.
Who Should Attend
Whether you’re looking to improve your core leadership skills or desire to develop the tools needed to implement change in your organization, this program is designed to address those needs wherever you are in your career. As a technical professional growing in your career, or those who aspire to roles of "chief engineer" or "chief scientist," the need for leadership skills are vital to be effective.
Motivating and persuading your colleagues and customers through storytelling is a powerful way to bring about impactful change and growth. It's important for leaders to understand their audience's needs and preferences so they can provide an approach that resonates with them. At its core, storytelling is about articulating a story and building a presentation that captures your audience's attention, imagination and engagement. It can be used to build relationships, influence decisions, solve problems, and create meaningful connections between people.
To meet new demands in an evolving marketplace, businesses are wise to adapt. The obstacles to make changes can prove formidable; and companies often strive to see a sustainable value from their change effort. Leading these efforts requires the ability to select and implement strategies to overcome resistance, identify the organizational needs and translate them into impactful results. Arm yourself with the tools needed to grow your leadership role in these changing times.
How do you create a highly productive team that exceeds your organization's goal? Building such a team requires thorough, purpose-driven development combined with nurturing and fostering best practices and key characteristics. This specialized group of colleagues leverage their practiced skills, diverse perspectives and professional expertise to achieve solid, resilient and clear results. Through a collaboration of a shared sense of purpose, your team will create new standards of excellence.
When the going gets tough, the tough pivot. Whether you're a solopreneur consultant or a large corporate brand, the same advice applies: Your team must pivot to survive and, more importantly, thrive. Many organizations implement new steps in productivity or turn to collaboration and communication solutions, while others adapt their business technology, upgrade operations or improve their data solutions. The ability to change, with speed and accuracy, to meet emerging opportunities and challenges is imperative for your team. The ability to pivot starts with a personal committment to adopt a growth mindset of resiliency and flexibility, leaning away from fear and stagnation and constructively redirecting self-determination.
Crisis leadership is a crucial element in today’s world. Pandemics, domestic terrorism, cyberattacks, power outages, white collar crimes and other catastrophic events are just a few of the potential crises leaders face. A crisis puts to the test the decision-making skills of an organization’s management and employees.
Leadership without authority—the ability to influence and motivate others to perform successfully—is dependent upon balancing behavior through credibility and trust, while facilitating problem-solving and creating an environment where inclusion and opportunity are encouraged. Build your influence as an agent for change in your company.
Entrepreneurial leaders work to inspire their teams to greatness while recognizing the unique capabilities of each individual in their team. They motivate through example, demonstrating that reaching a goal is possible with hard work, courage and dedication. Creating a culture of cooperation and collaboration empowers teams to strive further and make meanginful contributions. Build confidence as the leader who sees the possibilities for growth and can build trust and communicate the vision for purposeful execution.
