Empowering Technical Leaders
Drive Innovation. Seize opportunities.
Discover how cohort learning can help your team
Developed in partnership with:
Topics:
- Employee Engagement
- Influence and Persuasion
- Innovation
- Leadership
- Leaders in Tech
Authors:
Tailored to your company’s specific needs
Guided learning with experienced moderators
Bite-sized courses improve content retention
AI-fueled analytics provide actionable insights
Dedicated Customer Success Partner
Equip technical leaders to identify, advance, and capture the opportunities available from emerging technologies.
The fast-paced tech landscape offers a formidable challenge: translating innovation into tangible strategic successes. The leaders with the deepest insights into the power of emerging technologies must also have the leadership skills to get their organizations on board with them. But they haven’t always had the opportunities to develop them.
Participants delve into real-world projects and hone the strategic and leadership skills essential for driving innovation and guiding teams with confidence:
- Aligning opportunities to strategic priorities
- Influencing others in the organization to prioritize the opportunities
- Engaging the technical team to deliver on the innovation
Our program is designed to transform skilled technical professionals into influential strategists. Contact sales to enroll leaders at your organization
Program features
Over four weeks, participants in the program will work with a cohort to apply the program’s skills and toolkits to an opportunity of their choosing. They will gain confidence in their new skills and build a plan for advancing a promising idea for their organization.
The program was developed in partnership with the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and Moussa Consulting.
Week 1: Finding and Filtering Signals
- Track maturing technologies and prepare the organization for smart action
- Amplify and clarify market signals through active scanning
- Respond to disruption by creating real options
- Gain comfort with experimentation
Week 2: Influence for Action
- Plan how to connect with specific audiences
- Assess persuasion style and how it can be adapted
- Build trust and rapport to improve relationships and get to “yes”
- Record and share an initial stakeholder or leadership pitch with the cohort
Week 3: Application Week
- Present your initial pitch to leadership for feedback
- Refine your pitch using feedback and influence for action tools
- Choose a communication style to use
- Record and share the updated pitch with the cohort
Week 4: Engage Teams for Success
- Create empowered, virtuous teams through positivity practices
- Use positive energizers that shift culture and improve productivity
- Empower people to increase confidence, readiness for change, Innovation
Learners Will:
- Help the organization navigate the rapid advancement of new technologies by translating technical concepts into actionable business strategies
- Inspire action across functions and among direct reports by using influence skills to gain consensus and support
- Apply positive leadership practices so all team members can be engaged, committed, and energized, while contributing to the team’s success above and beyond expectations
Discover how cohort learning can help your team
Developed in partnership with:
Topics:
- Employee Engagement
- Influence and Persuasion
- Innovation
- Leadership
- Leaders in Tech
Authors:
Tailored to your company’s specific needs
Guided learning with experienced moderators
Bite-sized courses improve content retention
AI-fueled analytics provide actionable insights
Dedicated Customer Success Partner
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