Advanced Technical Leadership Graduate Certificate

This eight-module, executive-education certificate offers key technical employees the management strategies and relationship skills to meet present demands for technical personnel—R&D staff, IT specialists, engineers and scientists—to engage with clients and participate in corporate-strategic decisions. This non-credit executive-education program can be delivered entirely online, at NYU-Poly’s Brooklyn campus, or at satellite locations on Long Island and Westchester. It can also be offered to technical staff at company headquarters, R&D facilities or anywhere in the world a technical staff is deployed.

Module: Impact Leadership

Participants will be able to:

• identify personal career orientation, personality- driven, on-the-job behaviors and current stage of contribution;
• leverage an individual development plan to guide continued personal development as a leader, through effective goal setting;
• leverage confidence and influencing styles to effectively build a professional brand as a technical leader; and
• use personalized feedback provided by an executive coach to turn feedback into change on the job.

Module: Leading Effectively in a Technical Environment

Participants will be able to:

• understand how the environment they create for their team can have a direct impact on the bottom line;
• use mobilizing skills to leverage effective communication;
• use strategies for handling the impact of critical management situations on ROI;
• leverage processes to measure, transfer and reinforce changed leadership behaviors on the job; and
• create action plans to track the effectiveness of communicating key messages and for creating alignment.

Module: Change Management in a Technical Environment Module

Participants will be able to:

• employ a process to assess current functional performance against strategic organizational goals to determine alignment, gaps and continuous improvement opportunities;
• develop a change plan to target change goals, activities, resources, barriers and risk; and
• use effective decision-making strategies to lead teams to consensus and guide discussions that support necessary change.

Module: Mentoring in a Technical Environment

Participants will be able to:

• leverage clearly the definition of development within the framework of organizational culture and expectations;
• use skills and techniques for supporting a healthy, interactive mentor/mentee relationship; and
• provide behavioral feedback.

Module: Result-Oriented Leadership

Participants will be able to:

• identify the impact of biases and assumptions on decisions about people and activities;
• articulate clearly a vision for an employee’s area of responsibility and communicate concisely and compellingly; and
• employ a process to determine actions to bring the vision to life in tangible ways.

Module: Leading Virtually Module

Participants will be able to:

• apply techniques to continue developing virtual relationships through effective planning, collaboration and technology use;
• identify how to leverage the “differences” created by distance and by cultural and functional factors to ensure collaboration.

Module: Contributing as a Strategic Leader

Participants will be able to:

• articulate clearly functional/personal goals as they support organizational goals and daily activities;
• identify the impact of internal and external factors on success;
• use a process to develop a strategic plan derived from established organizational goals and direction; and
• identify activities, resources, and developmental next steps required to achieve a strategic plan.

Module: Leading for Success in a Hypergrowth Economy

Participants will be able to:

• explore perceptions about diverse cultures;
• address the scope and key components of culture;
• identify cultural filters and their impact on thoughts, behaviors and interactions;
• explore cultural styles vs. stereotypes and judgment; and
• manage cultural differences (techniques and application practice).