Developing the Effective Technical Leader - Spring

March 19-20, 2024

Overview: Have you reached a point where you need leadership skills to complement your technical expertise? Would you like to take the lead on projects at work, but don’t feel prepared? Or, do you come from a non-technical background and need strategies for successfully managing your technical staff members and team? As your company faces growing complexity and uncertainty, it’s an opportunity for you to stretch your developing leadership skills. This short course from Kelley School of Business Executive Education is designed to strengthen the leadership capabilities sought after by technical teams and organizations across a variety of industries.

For professionals with a technical skill set, this course equips you for a higher level of responsibility as you lead teams and organizations through periods of rapid change or uncertainty:

• Build an awareness of your individual leadership style
• Learn how to navigate interpersonal issues specific to technical teams
• Gain leadership strategies for decision-making and conflict management.

Managers from a non-technical background can gain strategies to effectively lead technical teams to meet their highest potential.

Discount pricing is available for companies sending three or more participants as well as Kelley School and IU alumni & staff. Contact Laura Nicholson (laurnich@indiana.edu) for related discount codes to apply at check out.

Ask your employer to help cover the cost. Select "Send My Employer an Invoice" during the Payment step of check out. Use this payment method to request that an invoice be sent to you. You are responsible for sending the invoice to your employer for payment. Payment should be completed before the course/certificate starts. If you need additional instructions for sending the invoice, please contact your Kelley School representative or Laura Nicholson at laurnich@indiana.edu.