Creating Inclusive Workplaces

This course examines the unique ways in which a servant leader can drive and impact diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Servant leaders play a vital role in developing new talent and driving a more sustainable culture of excellence and acceptance. Using Robert Greenleaf’s servant leadership model, this course offers students methods to incorporate…

High Performing Teams

Creating and maintaining high performing teams can be incredibly challenging, particularly while working in a remote or hybrid environment. In this session, we look at the core elements of high performing teams and how to create the right processes, goals and structures to achieve success. This includes overcoming biases and leveraging the intelligence of the…

Appreciative Inquiry For Change Management

Appreciative Inquiry empowers leaders to engage employees and stakeholders through the change management process. Traditional problem-solving methods look at organizational deficits as problems that need solutions vs. “appreciating” the team’s strengths and using those existing talents as a lens to “inquire” about possible solutions. This model results in improved productivity and performance, strengthened relationships, successful…

Creating & Implementing Technology Strategy

One of the most critical functions of an engineering leader is to create and implement technology strategy. This module breaks down four forces that must be exerted to create technology strategy, receive buy-in from stakeholders, as well as address the process, tools and metrics to execute your plan. Attendees leave with a framework they can…

Design Thinking for Innovation

Design methodology provides a repeatable framework that allows multi-disciplinary teams to approach the development of innovative products, services, and systems. Topics include an overview of the design process across the following five stages: (1) design research, (2) analysis & synthesis, (3) concept generation & creativity, (4) prototyping, (5) communication & visualization. Methods and real-world case…

Data Driven Decision Making

This course covers three key areas of the data analytics process: gathering information, analyzing the data, and communicating the findings. These steps form the core of business analytics and the foundation for data-based business decisions, which can enhance decisions around marketing and operations, pricing and revenue management, and customer relationship management while supporting organizational growth…

Power and Influence: The Impact on Decision-Making & Negotiations

One of the most undervalued aspects of organizational culture is how power and influence in interpersonal relationships sway internal decision-making and external negotiations. This module addresses how participants can incorporate the power and influence dynamic to both improve internal decision-making and implementation processes, and maximize external stakeholder negotiations. Dan Himelstein, Lecturer, Haas School of Business,…

Project Management: The Art of Getting it Right and on Time

One of the biggest challenges organizations face is delivering the right product on time. This module covers how participants can approach project management in a healthy and constructive way. It also analyzes the different project management philosophies from Waterfall to Agile and helps participants pick the right approach for their projects. Bulent Erbilgin, Director of…