Hans de Bruijn & Gerdien de Vries – Dealing with Power and Dynamics – Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders

Dealing with Power and Dynamics: Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders
Learn to lead teams and manage stakeholders effectively and strategically to encourage cooperation and successful performance.

About this course

In our interconnected and complex world, leaders are faced with both internal and external stakeholders. Problems have to be solved within complex networks of stakeholders, each with their own dynamics, interests, perspectives and power. As leaders, engineers have clear advantages: they are analytical, technically skilled, project-based, good with numbers and well-used to problem-solving. However, engineers cannot rely on this skillset alone when exercising leadership in today’s world.

In this course you will learn how to develop and apply an influencing mindset, which will allow you to lead your team effectively and to successfully manage stakeholders. The course gives you the tools to operate within a network of stakeholders:

• distinguish power and interests in networks of stakeholders
• build trust
• recognize roles and norms in groups
• deal with conflict and cooperation
• motivate group members
• identify your own leadership style

Upon completion of this course you will be introduced to an influencing mindset and toolkit, in order to use a set of cohesive strategies for dealing with stakeholders – both cooperative and non-cooperative stakeholders.

At a glance

• Institution: DelftX
• Subject: Business & Management
• Level: Intermediate
• Prerequisites:

The course is designed for individuals who are in a leadership positions or preparing for such positions in the future. Few years’ experience in an organizational setting will be an advantage, but is not a requirement.

• Language: English
• Video Transcript: English
• Associated programs:

Professional Certificate in Leadership Essentials for Engineers

What you’ll learn

• How to apply an influencing mindset to encourage multiple stakeholders with different interests to cooperate
• How to recognize team dynamics, define roles and norms, and handle both individual and team issues, including motivating group members
• How to use leadership approaches and styles to influence stakeholders and groups

More about this course

LICENSE

The course materials of this course are Copyright Delft University of Technology and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International License.

Dealing with Power and Dynamics – Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders By Hans de Bruijn & Gerdien de Vries, what is it included (Content proof: Watch here!)

0. Get started with Power and Dynamics

1. Welcome in a complex world

2. Team Dynamics and Establishing a Leader

3. Strategies in networks

4. Trust in networks

5. Strategies for Organizational Leadership

6. Strategic Plan and Next Steps

Delivery Method