À propos de ce cours : 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.
Les destinataires de ce cours : This course is geared toward practicing engineers who are early in their careers, especially those who are either in or approaching their first leadership role.
Créé par : Rice University
Enseigné par : David Van Kleeck, Professor in the Practice of Engineering Leadership
Rice Center for Engineering Leadership
| Informations de base | Cours 1 de 3 dans Leadership Development for Engineers Specialization |
| Niveau | Débutant |
| Engagement | 5 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week |
| Langue | English, Sous-titres : Vietnamese |
| Comment réussir | Réussissez tous les devoirs notés pour terminer le cours. |
| Notes des utilisateurs |
Programme de cours
SEMAINE 1
Welcome
1 vidéo, 6 lectures
- Reading: Course Icon Legend
- Reading: Syllabus
- Reading: Discussion Forum Guidelines
- Reading: Required Materials
- Reading: Pre-Course Survey
- Discussion Prompt: Introduce Yourself
- Reading: Self Awareness Writing Assignment and Rubric
Introduction to Leadership
Outline a leadership competency framework, explain a methodology for assessing skill level and begin developing your leadership toolbox with an introduction to networking.
10 vidéos, 6 lectures, 2 quiz pour s'exercer
- Reading: Recommended Reading
- Vidéo: RCEL Framework
- Vidéo: Bloom's Taxonomy
- Practice Quiz: Blooms Quiz
- Reading: Completing the Personality Assessments
- Vidéo: Leadership Journals
- Reading: Journaling Introduction
- Reading: Journaling Topic
- Discussion Prompt: Everyday Leadership
- Vidéo: Personality Assessments
- Vidéo: Goal Setting
- Reading: Goal Setting
- Practice Quiz: Goal Setting
- Vidéo: Engineering Leadership
- Vidéo: Tool box - Personal Networking
- Vidéo: Dave's Journal - Model for Engineering Leadership
- Reading: Journaling Topic
- Vidéo: Summary
Noté: Module 1 Quiz
SEMAINE 2
Engineering Profession
Discuss the challenges that engineers will face in the future and continue developing your toolbox with strategies for managing your time and how to prioritize.
9 vidéos, 4 lectures, 1 quiz pour s'exercer
- Reading: Recommended Readings
- Reading: Engineer of 2020
- Vidéo: Innovation Demonstration
- Vidéo: Engineer of 2020
- Practice Quiz: Engineer of 2020
- Vidéo: Engineer Interview
- Discussion Prompt: Adapting to the Pace of Change
- Vidéo: President Kennedy's Engineering Challenge
- Reading: President Kennedy's Vision Speech
- Vidéo: Tool Box: Time Management
- Vidéo: Tool box: Prioritizing Time, Size Relative to Importance Levels
- Vidéo: Dave's Journal - Reflections on the Pace of Change
- Reading: Journaling Topic
- Vidéo: Summary
Noté: Module 2 Quiz
SEMAINE 3
Self Awareness
An introduction to self-assessment tools that allow you to identify strengths and weaknesses and how they could impact your leadership style. This week's tool for your leadership toolkit is developing your statement of life purpose.
11 vidéos, 5 lectures, 2 quiz pour s'exercer
- Reading: Recommended Readings
- Vidéo: Hierarchy of Life Management
- Practice Quiz: Hierarchy of Life Skills Quiz
- Reading: Personality Assessments
- Vidéo: Personality Assessments
- Vidéo: Core Self Evaluation
- Vidéo: Locus of Control
- Vidéo: Dispositional Influences
- Vidéo: Cognitive Styles
- Practice Quiz: Self Assessments
- Discussion Prompt: Managing Oneself
- Vidéo: Managing Oneself Discussion
- Reading: Are You a Player or a Victim?
- Reading: Know Your Life Purpose
- Vidéo: Tool box - Statement of Life Purpose
- Vidéo: Dave's Journal - Making Assumptions
- Reading: Journaling Topic
- Vidéo: Summary
Noté: Module 3 Quiz
SEMAINE 4
Stress Management
Develop strategies for limiting or leveraging stress to improve your leadership style. The tool of the week teaches you to practice effective techniques for controlling stress.
8 vidéos, 3 lectures, 2 quiz pour s'exercer
- Reading: Recommended Reading
- Vidéo: Motivation to Lead
- Practice Quiz: Quiz: Motivation to Lead
- Vidéo: Stress as a Forcefield
- Vidéo: Defense Mechanisms and Responses
- Vidéo: Strategies for Managing Stress
- Practice Quiz: Stress Management
- Vidéo: Dave's Journal - Philmont Trek
- Reading: How to Make Stress Your Friend
- Discussion Prompt: How to Make Stress Your Friend
- Reading: Journaling Topic
- Vidéo: Tool box - Using Stress Management
- Vidéo: Summary
Noté: Module 4 Quiz
Noté: Self Awareness Peer Review Assignment
SEMAINE 5
Creative Problem Solving
Discuss the differences between analytical and creative problem solving. Develop techniques for encouraging creativity in solving problems while recognizing and overcoming conceptual blocks. We add mind mapping to your toolbox this week for a way to foster personal creativity.
10 vidéos, 5 lectures, 2 quiz pour s'exercer
- Reading: Recommended Reading
- Discussion Prompt: Filling in the Gaps
- Vidéo: Analytical and Creative Problem Solving
- Practice Quiz: Analytical and Creative Problem Solving
- Vidéo: Constancy Block In Detail
- Vidéo: ... The Other Blocks
- Vidéo: Overcoming Barriers to Creativity
- Practice Quiz: Conceptual Blocks
- Vidéo: Conceptual Blocks
- Vidéo: Assessing Your Creative Style
- Reading: Embrace the Shake
- Reading: Another Perspective
- Vidéo: Dave's Journal - Experimental Observation
- Reading: Journaling Topic
- Vidéo: Tool box - Mind Mapping
- Vidéo: Summary
- Reading: End of Course Survey
Noté: Module 5 Quiz
FAQ
Comment cela fonctionne
Coursework
Each course is like an interactive textbook, featuring pre-recorded videos, quizzes and projects.
Help from Your Peers
Connect with thousands of other learners and debate ideas, discuss course material, and get help mastering concepts.
Certificates
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Créateurs
Rice University
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Notation et examens
Interesting course with good instructor. The peer reviews are tough to pass though. Think twice if you want to pursue this course as it is not easy during the peer reviews.
Very good Class. Recommended 100%
Very organized study material. Plenty of supporting material with a lots of exercises and hands on. It is very practical training for anyone who wants to discover leadership. I highly recommend this course for those of you who desire to play a leadership role. wow!!!
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The content relevant with our need in the workplace. The pronunciation of the speaker is very clear. Easy to be understood. Not using idiomatic phrase, so that it is easier for non-English native.