Effective Leadership: Collaboration for Software Engineers

This course takes many of the common terms used to train technical leaders and talks through the impact of how you apply those terms to your day-to-day. This course focuses on the mentality and thought process that will help you continue to manage and grow your path into and through technical leadership.

Apply Leadership Principals to Everyday Work

Learn how to break communication barriers by building relationships through

• Listening

• Understanding

• Empathy

• and Trust

Understand how to pave communication pathways by inspiring connections through

• Tone and intent

• Authenticity

• and Accountability

Visualize real scenarios by walking through examples of individual contributor, leadership, and manager application.

Course Purpose

This course is designed for those aspiring to become technical leaders or those that want to expand their reach and influence as technical leaders. As we walk through the terms and concepts that are regularly taught, you will get a glimpse of what the application looks like. This course focuses significantly on how you can approach thinking about these concepts that goes beyond just buzz words and ideologies on a company webpage.

By the end of this course, you can evaluate and adjust your leadership style to effectively shape the values and culture of engineering departments and product teams.

What will students learn in your course?

• Learn why listening, understanding, and empathizing can break communication barriers within a team

• Learn what trust and authenticity means to team members

• Learn how tone and intent can impact the collaboration within a team

• Learn what accountability looks like in practice

• Learn how to think about and apply some common, basic leadership principals to your day-to-day work

• Increase your influence on technical and product direction within a technical team

This course is designed for those aspiring to become technical leaders or those that want to expand their reach and influence as technical leaders.

You will need to have some experience (6 months - 1 year) of working in a technical, product driven team.