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Self Awareness and the Effective Leader

Part of being an effective leader is learning how to play to your strengths and overcome characteristics that don't lend to good leadership practices. During the course, you will examine your own strengths and learn ways to use them in a leadership role. Learn to manage stress and solve problems creatively. Throughout the course, you will also build a tool kit of useful techniques that you can begin using right away in your engineering career. This course is designed for engineers who are interested in and have the desire to advance into leadership and management roles. You don't need any leadership experience to do well in this course. We ask you to reflect on your personal experiences pretty often, so some work experience will help you in that aspect, but we hope that most of what you learn here will be applicable to many areas of your life. Looking to advance even further as an engineering manager & leader for Industry 4.0? Rice University's top-ranked School of Engineering now offers a Master of Engineering Management & Leadership, 100% online for your convenience. Visit www.rice.edu/engineeringleaders to learn more.

Status: Creative Thinking
Status: Personal Attributes
BeginnerCourse27 hours

Featured reviews

TO

Reviewed Dec 6, 2016

Great course. Really good for those who want to be managers/leader, and those who are already leaders. Lots of reading required, but it is OK.

UK

Reviewed Feb 10, 2021

A good experience of learning. To know myself and my capabilities. How to achieve leadership position and perform the same effectively. A good course.

DV

Reviewed Oct 31, 2020

It's really an amazing platform for students to gain knowledge and the teaching part is really good.

JH

Reviewed May 20, 2023

Amazing course material and enjoyed the exposure to connecting life experiences to where I am today

TS

Reviewed Nov 7, 2016

Excellent course to get your brain thinking. Opens your eyes into a leadership sight. Help yourself

JG

Reviewed Jan 21, 2021

Highly recommended to help understand your own strengths and weakness, so you can focus on improving or potentiate them

AG

Reviewed Jun 21, 2022

A holistic approach to professional leadershiprevitalising the attributes and capabilities of a person

CM

Reviewed Apr 5, 2017

Good course; very interesting. I would like to see the professor grade the course papers or at least review them instead of stric

GM

Reviewed Jan 29, 2020

Great course for anyone interesting to learn about leadership skills. I will recommend this course to anyone interested in leading a team , human relationship and effective communication.

CV

Reviewed Aug 1, 2020

This is a big help to everyone especially this time of pandemic. This also allows us to refresh ourselves on how to be an effective leader. This is a self- discovery.

BL

Reviewed Mar 7, 2020

Thank you! It's helpful course for me as I'm a new in leadership position. I'll review this course later on to relearn for my leadership position.

MF

Reviewed May 10, 2020

VERY NICE COURSE CATERS TO THE REQUIREMENT OF ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP, EXCELLENTLY CRAFTED FOR SUCCESS

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