Leadership Certificate Competencies
Cornell Engineering Leaders who complete the Certification Program demonstrate Knowledge, Insight, Ability, and Courage.
In addition, they have practiced each of the following skills.
COMPETENCY: SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND MANAGEMENT
Skill or behavior:
- Articulates a moral code and relates code to actions & choices*
- Articulates and leverages unique strengths
- Demonstrates emotional and social intelligence
- Demonstrates resilience and perseverance
- Grounds actions in personal core values
- Holds self accountable
- Learns from failure
- Manages derailing tendencies and personality characteristics
- Recognizes the need for lifelong learning and sets developmental goals for the self*
COMPETENCY: COLLABORATION
Skill or behavior:
- Appropriately manages interpersonal conflict and uses task conflict to improve outcomes
- Balances leadership and active followership
- Contributes to a positive and productive team culture
- Demonstrates exemplary collaborative communication and listening skills
- Gives and receives feedback effectively
- Holds peers accountable
- Identifies and respects others’ core values and strengths
- Establishes positive and productive professional relationships
- Works effectively in functionally and demographically diverse teams*
*Indicates that the skill meets an ABET criteria for student outcomes.
COMPETENCY: LEADERSHIP
Skill or behavior:
- Adapts leadership style to the skills and motivation of the team
- Aligns personal and professional purpose with action
- Celebrates individual and team accomplishments
- Creates an environment that encourages innovation
- Holds the team accountable
- Inspires and communicates a shared vision
- Inspires and informs through excellent oral and written communication*
- Is aware of impact on others and broader consequences of behaviors and decisions*
- Leads others to identify and solve problems*
- Models personal professional ethical responsibility*
- Seeks and incorporates feedback
- Sets goals, motivates action, coordinates efforts
- Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND SKILLS
- Conscientious: Pays care and attention to work. Organized and dependable.
- Basic project management: creating a timeline, setting goals and milestones, budgeting, reporting
- Delivers on commitments
- Enacts best practices in brainstorming and organizational decision-making
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Grows and leverages a professional network
- Maintains a professional appearance
- Manages time effectively and is punctual
- Sets specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, time-bound goals
- Flexible; adapts successfully to changing situations and environments.