Leadership Seminar for Technology Professionals

3 units

This seminar is designed to develop the leadership capacity of professionals working in the information technology and cybersecurity fields. Although domain expertise plays an important role in the success of a technology professional, it's when this expertise is integrated with the ability to lead people that transforms the merely competent into multi-dimensional force multipliers for the organization. In this course, students will participate in an immersive, seminar-based learning experience targeted toward professional and personal development on a range of essential leadership skills. Students will benefit from interaction with industry experts in the IT and cybersecurity fields and receive coaching support to achieve professional and personal goals. Each student will complete a series of self- and multi-rater assessments as well as a personal leadership development plan to gain insight and build competencies critical to effective leadership. Topics include creating a shared vision, strategy development, building and sustaining a healthy culture, essentials of finance and budgeting, driving results, energizing people for performance, innovation, emotional intelligence, navigating organizational politics, managing up, negotiations, stress resilience, talent coaching and development, effective communication, and time management.