Leadership Skills for Engineering and Science Faculty

Overview

What you will study

Through a series of interactive role-playing activities, self-assessment instruments, and group discussions, you will develop a repertoire of techniques for addressing issues that commonly arise within engineering research groups and teaching staff.

The Leadership Skills for Engineering and Science Faculty course offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) promotes awareness of the participants’ own styles of leadership and offers them new approaches to explore. Since leadership styles are highly individual and situational, the instructors do not judge styles as “good” or “bad,” but provide a nonjudgmental yet structured environment in which you can discover what works for you.

The learning objectives of the course are:

• Recognizing and describe your own brain-dominance profile and how it affects personal leadership style and effectiveness

• Applying the skills of visioning and mentoring to create opportunities for yourself and others

• Applying situational-leadership concepts to the various challenges encountered when developing students in an academic environment

• Defining and use techniques and approaches for conflict management and for handling interpersonal dynamics more creatively

• Understanding and articulating how leadership styles affect research, education, and the learning process