Online Course – Leadership Principles: Certified Professional Internship in Leading Technical Organizations at Google and the University of Colorado Boulder

Expertise – 3-lesson course series

This specialization explores how a leader enhances their capabilities by leading others, and how their executive presence is essential to being a leader of leaders. The first key to success is building a team of exceptional and diverse leaders who are deeply involved in talent recruitment, development, and retention activities.

What will the learners learn?

• How organizational leaders use different decision-making processes for diverse situations.
• Leaders are responsible for all outcomes.
• Techniques for building lasting relationships that have a cultural impact on business success.
• Insights into broad considerations that organizational leaders need to take into account when planning and executing large-scale technical efforts.

Academic training

This specialization can be taken as academic training as part of the Master of Engineering and Leadership (ME-EM) degree offered by CU Boulder on the Coursera platform. The ME-EM program is designed to help engineers, scientists, and technical professionals advance to management and leadership roles in the fields of engineering and technology.

Features of the ME-EM program:

• Performance-based admission and no application process.
• Ideal for people with a broad background of undergraduate education and/or professional experience.

For more information about the ME-EM program, visit https://www.coursera.org/degrees/me-engineering-management-boulder .

Hands-on Learning Project

Each week, students will explore leadership-related topics through:

• Knowledge questionnaires.
• reading.
• Response to a real leadership scenario in one page work.

Responses to the leadership scenario will be assessed on:

• Understanding the topic.
• Applying your strengths and personality type.
• Professionally written text.

These one-page responses will be reviewed by 3 peers according to established criteria. Writing a very good one-page paper can be more difficult than writing a much longer text. This is one of the most important and practical types of writing to master.

Being a peer reviewer encourages you to think critically and improves your communication skills. Peer reviews teach you how to communicate positive and constructive feedback, a critical leadership skill.