- Level Foundation
- Duration 25 hours
- Course by University of Colorado Boulder
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Being a successful leader in complex technical organization requires being ultimately accountable for your team’s performance and meeting commitments to all your stakeholders. This second Leading Technical Organizations course, "Accountability and Employee Engagement", explores how organizational leaders use different decision-making processes for different situations and that they are ultimately accountable for all results. You will also learn how a company’s culture affects strategy, risk and meeting stakeholder commitments. This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Engineering in Engineering Management (ME-EM) degree offered on the Coursera platform. The ME-EM is designed to help engineers, scientists, and technical professionals move into leadership and management roles in the engineering and technical sectors. With performance-based admissions and no application process, the ME-EM is ideal for individuals with a broad range of undergraduate education and/or professional experience. Learn more about the ME-EM program at https://www.coursera.org/degrees/me-engineering-management-boulder.Modules
Welcome to the Course!
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- Welcome and Where to Find Help
University of Colorado's EMP Leadership Progression
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- University of Colorado's EMP Leadership Progression
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- Robin Sharma: True Meaning of Leadership Motivational Speech
Accountability & Employee Engagement Course Introduction
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- Accountability & Employee Engagement Course Introduction
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- Six Paradoxes of Leadership: Changing World Blair Sheppard, PwC network
Three Dimensions of Accountability
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- Three Dimensions of Accountability
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- Accountability in Leadership
- Accountability is About Commitment, Not Punishment | #culturedrop | Galen Emanuele
Personal Accountability
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- Personal Accountability
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- Personal Accountability: Taking Responsibility for Your Efforts and Results
Team Accountability
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- Team Accountability
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- Blame and Accountability
- How Leaders Hold Employees Accountable Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, Nobody
Culture of Accountability
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- Culture of Accountability
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- Navy SEAL Motivational Speaker Brent Gleeson on Building a Culture Focused on Accountability
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- Accountability Quiz
LTO Accountability Leadership Learning Scenario
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- Accountability Leadership Learning Scenario
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- LTO Accountability Leadership Learning Scenario
Decision Making
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- Decision Making
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- Decision Making as a Leader
- 10 Mistakes We All Make When Making Decisions - IESE Busines
Understanding Decision Biases & Fallacies
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- Understanding Decision Biases & Fallacies
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- How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes
- Bias and How to Overcome It
Classes of Business Decisions
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- Classes of Business Decisions
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- Groupthink, That’s Just the Way We Do It
Big Picture Risks and Risk Management
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- Big Picture Risks and Risk Management
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- Leadership and Risk Management
- "Risk is Our Business" - speech explaining what Star Trek is about
- Risk Management: Art or Science? - Tripwire
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- Decision Making and Bias Quiz
LTO Decision Making or Risk Leadership Learning Scenario
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- Decision Making or Risk Leadership Learning Scenario
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- LTO Decision Making or Risk Leadership Learning Scenario
Leading Change & the Power of Culture – Guest Speaker Brynn Watson
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- Leading Change & the Power of Culture – Guest Speaker Brynn Watson
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- Organizational Culture Readings
- Lockheed Martin: The Future of Work
Disruption
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- Disruption
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- How Apple changed Music - Market Disruption - Ducere Global Business School
- Now Is Time to Disrupt Yourself
- The Role of Leadership in Change
Culture Change
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- Culture Change
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- Kotter's 8-Step Change Model
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- Leadership and Culture Quiz
LTO Culture Change Leadership Learning Scenario
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- Culture Change Leadership Learning Scenario
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- LTO Culture Change Leadership Learning Scenario
Conflict and Mediation
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- Conflict and Mediation
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- Mediation Skills
- Brené Brown on Empathy
Critical / Crucial Conversations
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- Critical / Crucial Conversations
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- Conversation Training
- How Do I Start a Crucial Conversation?
- Lencioni on Conflict
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- Conflict and Difficult Conversations Quiz
LTO Dealing with Conflict Leadership Learning Scenario
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- Dealing with Conflict Leadership Learning Scenario
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- LTO Dealing with Conflict Leadership Learning Scenario
Ethical Decision Making in Business – Guest Speaker – T.J. Hasty
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- Ethical Decision Making in Business – Guest Speaker – T.J. Hasty
Workforce of the Future
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- Workforce of the Future
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- Multiple Generations in the Workplace
- Don't Put People in Boxes
What is Employee Engagement?
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- What is Employee Engagement?
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- Inclusive Leadership
- The Most Engaged Employee in the World
Leading Through Authenticity and Integrity
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- Leading Through Authenticity and Integrity
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- Integrity is the key to Authentic Leadership
LTO Employee Engagement Leadership Learning Scenario
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- Employee Engagement Leadership Scenario
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- LTO Employee Engagement Leadership Learning Scenario
Course Summary
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- Course Summary
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Enhance your leadership skills in technical organizations with "Accountability and Employee Engagement." This business and management course focuses on decision-making, accountability, and the impact of company culture on strategy and stakeholder commitments. Led by CU Boulder, it is part of the ME-EM degree on Coursera, ideal for engineers and technical professionals aiming for leadership roles. The course duration is 1500 minutes, and a Starter subscription is available.

Kathryn Tobey