Evaluate the skills and practices characteristic of exemplary technical leadership.

Describe and reflect on which skills and practices are the most important to a technical leader's ability to manage and lead their teams.

2) Objective 2: Analyze leadership "derailers" that can erode team trust, undermine effectiveness, and negatively impact performance.

What behaviors or communication styles from a leader can quickly erode trust, leader credibility, and team performance? Why?

3) Objective 3: Identify the skills involved in emotional intelligence and explain how they influence professional and leadership relationships, team development, and innovation.

What are the emotional intelligence skills involved in effective leadership? How do they influence relationships, team development and innovation?

4) Objective 4: Explain the relationships among trust, credibility, creativity, and learning on teams and their influences on innovation and quality outcomes.

How are trust, credibility, creativity, and learning on teams related to innovation and performance? How can a leader cultivate these?

5) Objective 5: Discuss and critically evaluate current events and examples of technical leadership and systems thinking in context

In reflecting on the exploration of current media and examples of leadership, what did you learn?

6) Objective 6: Synthesize literature on engineering leadership and management to develop a personal leadership philosophy grounded in scholarly insights.

What insights or ideas did you form in building your own leadership philosophy? What do you believe about leadership now that will stay with you long after the class concludes?

7) Objective 7: Formulate a personal skills inventory and career development plan that addresses technical leadership, management, and innovation competencies.

What insights or ideas did you form in constructing your own career development plan? Was the exercise helpful? Why or why not?