In our leadership courses, you will increase your knowledge and skills for creating a compelling vision, building high-performance teams, influencing others to action, and negotiating strategically.
Some of the benefits participants discover:
- Assess your personal leadership style and skills
- Write and present with clear logic and structure
- Provide positive team direction and motivation
- Develop a collaborative team culture and reduce conflict
- Enhance team problem-solving and decision-making
- Influence without alienating or without authority
- Manage the balance of power in a negotiation
With a FlexCert certificate for Leadership Essentials, you are empowered with personalization. Complete only five courses to obtain a Caltech certificate that fits your specific goals. You can select topics most relevant to your career, learn at a pace that suits your lifestyle, and develop skills that align with your professional goals. This flexibility and choice enable you to tailor your education to your needs, creating a truly unique learning experience from Caltech CTME.
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Entrepreneurial leaders drive innovation and growth by combining vision with execution. This course explores entrepreneurial motivation, the stages of the entrepreneurial process, and how to recognize opportunities while navigating cognitive and unconscious biases.
Critical Communications: Storytelling & Presentations
Learn techniques for motivating and persuading professional colleagues and customers in presentations and reports. This course emphasizes defining message content, applying emotional intelligence, controlling your presence, and energizing delivery through practical exercises.
Leading Organizational Change
Change management requires many skillsets: anticipating organizational needs, creating a vision, and sustaining results. This course helps you evaluate your personal mindset regarding change, understand the impacts of change – personal, project, and organizational, and strengthen leadership effectiveness.
Amp Me Up!
This highly interactive program builds confidence and impact for leaders who want to energize their teams. You’ll learn the VPS model for individual growth and the OrGro model for organizational growth while exploring practical techniques to project presence, set expectations, and inspire others.
Pivot to Thrive
Adaptability is critical in times of disruption. This course develops resilience, equips you to deal with uncertainty, and emphasizes productivity, expectations, and perspective as you pivot strategies and thrive in dynamic environments.
Crisis Leadership
Effective leaders know how to respond when challenges escalate into crises. This course emphasizes the neuroscience of fear, rapid decision-making under pressure, and guiding teams with resilience and credibility in turbulent times.
Managing Without Authority
This popular elective builds your effectiveness in complex environments where influence matters more than title. You’ll learn to apply emotional intelligence, grow from the inside out, and master techniques for motivating peers, negotiating priorities, and gaining commitment when you lack formal authority.
Hours and Credits: Participants will earn 1.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for each two-day course attended.
Complete only five courses to obtain a Caltech certificate that fits your specific goals.
Whether you’re looking to improve your core leadership skills or desire to develop the tools needed to implement change in your organization, this program is designed to address those needs wherever you are in your career. As a technical professional growing in your career, or those who aspire to roles of "chief engineer" or "chief scientist," the need for leadership skills are vital to be effective.
