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3-6 Months
11 Courses
Virtual or On Campus
In-industry Leaders
$6,745
Whether you’re a leader today, or aspire to become a leader, the Technical Leadership Certificate Program delivers the right leadership training so you succeed, your team succeeds, and ultimately your company succeeds. It’s part of the Technology & Leadership Center at Washington University in St. Louis.
Learn to lead. You will be with other technology and engineering professionals as you problem solve together the most difficult challenges leaders face. Class instructors are also workplace leaders. What they offer is real workplace insight for better decision making and problem solving. The entire program offers you leadership competencies for improved communication, coaching, performance management, change management, and conflict management.
If you’re interested in earning your Technical Leadership Certificate, but are unsure if your organization offers reimbursement, get one step ahead and download this Employer Program Sponsorship Letter for potential funding.
From the very first class in the Technical Leadership Certificate Program you will learn leadership skills that can be applied in real-world work environments. As you progress through each of the 11 courses you gain a collective, proven knowledge base for succeeding at any level of corporate leadership.
You were born to lead. All you need now is the proven training to advance into your first professional leadership position. The practical skills you learn in the Technical Leadership Certificate Program will get you there and beyond. Classes will help you achieve leadership competencies to motivate and inspire others, manage workplace conflict, and provide adaptable leadership strategies. You’ll learn leadership skills required for making a positive impact where you work now, or wherever your career takes you.
The Technology & Leadership Center is part of Washington University in St. Louis. This means you'll be part of an institution known for building leaders.
Gain the right skills to help you lead more effectively so you, your team, and your company succeed.
96% OF STUDENTS FELT THEY HAD SUFFICIENT CHANCES
TO PRACTICE NEW LEADERSHIP SKILLS.
97% OF STUDENTS STATED THAT THEIR LEVEL OF SKILL/
KNOWLEDGE INCREASED AFTER TRAINING.
96% OF STUDENTS VERIFIED INSTRUCTOR KNOWLEDGE MADE
TRAINING RELEVANT TO THEIR ACTUAL JOB.
What can be gained by earning a Technical Leadership Certificate has taken so many technology professionals to the next level of leadership. Maybe the next success story could by yours.
“Throughout my career I have taken taken hundreds of CEU courses, however, the Technical Leadership Certificate has been the most beneficial to my professional development.”
"I use the communication skills I learned in daily workplace interactions and meetings. I found my voice and am now not afraid to speak up. I'm enjoying what I do more than ever and I have the Technical Leadership Certificate from Washington University to thank."
“Washington University's Technical Leadership Certificate provided me the opportunity to examine areas that needed further development. The peer-to-peer learning allowed me to dig deep into the material, discuss my experiences and learn from others."
The following 11 courses are required to receive your certification. Each class offers exposure to key information that is critical to the success of every leader’s professional development.
In this section you will learn essential business communication skills to build effective relationships and get work done effectively by your team. These are often referred to as “Interaction Essentials” skills because they are the core behaviors that make leaders effective. These skills help individuals meet both personal needs (to be respected and involved) and practical needs (through an effective organizational communication structure).
Foundation for Effective Leadership helps participants identify their strengths by focusing on the behaviors that “come naturally” to them. When leaders operate from their strengths and are aware of their weaknesses, they can more effectively coach, delegate, and correct performance problems.
Much of a leader’s work is accomplished through daily conversations with team members and others. These interactions, especially the tough ones, often involve intensely personal feelings (on both sides) that have an impact on the practical outcome of the conversation. It also impacts the personal connection between the leader and the person they are communicating with. The leader’s level of emotional intelligence, the ability to manage oneself and one’s relationships, is a critical factor in the success of these tough conversations.
What does trust have to do with business success? Everything. Trust is directly linked to employee engagement, retention, productivity, and innovation. Leaders who demonstrate trust and trustworthiness inspire higher levels of performance and commitment to the team and organizational success.
The speed of business in today’s global workplace requires leaders to have regular employee performance conversations. This allows those you lead to always know how they are progressing and what they must do to improve. Leaders must have meaningful, ongoing coaching and development discussions and provide just-in-time feedback to ensure that employees' efforts are aligned with the changing business priorities.
Whether it’s an innovative breakthrough or a simple process improvement, making it happen requires commitment from others within your organization. The best way to gain this commitment is to have a strategy for each stakeholder. This course shows you how to package your ideas in a way that will win over even the most skeptical individuals.
People are more engaged and strive for better results when they feel ownership of their work process and outcomes. This course will show the positive effect of shifting the traditional role of planner and evaluator from the leader such as yourself, to a shared responsibility between leader and employee. It’s a shift that builds employee ownership and allows you to focus on coaching and developing throughout the performance cycle.
In this section you will learn essential business communication skills to build effective relationships and get work done effectively by your team. These are often referred to as “Interaction Essentials” skills because they are the core behaviors that make leaders effective. These skills help individuals meet both personal needs (to be respected and involved) and practical needs (through an effective organizational communication structure).
What you achieve in this section is the ability to promote a successful coaching culture within your organization that emphasizes seeking and listening versus telling someone what to do. When asked for input, your peers, employees, as well as other leaders feel comfortable to challenge and provoke thinking or offer solutions that might not have been considered. This provides greater agility to solve problems across the enterprise and creates safe space for these conversations.
The ability to Move People Forward means you know how to meet the unique needs of the people you're coaching, right where they are, and guide them in successfully achieving a goal. To have this kind of positive impact takes a trusting relationship, and that means coaches must have a better understanding of the other person and themselves.
Sharing feedback is an important part of any organization's culture and an effective business skill that reaches across all workplace levels. This course focuses on your ability to deliver positive and developmental feedback. You will also learn how to be receptive to input and to “listen to understand” the speaker's intended message accurately.
You probably started or plan to start your leadership career with some potentially brilliant ideas that you hoped would improve the way your team works together. Unfortunately, research shows that approximately 70% of all workplace change initiatives fail shortly after implementation. Things often go wrong because leaders aren't skilled in how to implement change. Through change management, driving success is less about process and more focused on your team members getting behind new ideas and championing these changes.
For workplace change initiatives to be successful, you need the leadership ability to turn resistance into commitment and inspire team members to take ownership of change. Within this course, you will gain the leadership skills and resources to accelerate the process of implementing change with team members and to create an agile work environment where people are more open to change.
The more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous your working environment becomes, the more critical a truly agile workforce is to your leadership success. Each day, we are called to make progress faster, while pivoting on short notice. To stand firm in our ideas while remaining open to new perspectives. Staying agile demands that you develop and use emotional intelligence (EQ) – a level of sophistication that is more essential today than ever before.
Conflicts happen. How your employees respond and resolve conflict will result in success or failure within the organization. Conflict management is the practice of dealing with disputes in a balanced, rational and effective way. Since conflicts in a business are a natural part of the workplace, it is important that there are people who know how to resolve them through conflict analysis and dispute resolution. This is more important in today's market than ever.
Today’s business environment challenges organizations to increase productivity, improve quality, shorten cycle time, and reduce costs – all can lead to worker stress and conflict. Learn how to help employees and managers understand the complexities of conflict, including the possible causes and solutions. You’ll be able to recognize the signs of escalating conflict and take appropriate action to minimize damage.
This course sets out to help leaders shift their mindset about what they can delegate and feel more comfortable and confident doing so. You will dig into your workload to identify tasks you may never have considered delegating. Use methods for matching people to tasks and how to motivate them to accomplish these tasks to ensure success.
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