Leadership and negotiation for entrepreneurs

Overview

Engineering students need to understand that the future is more than being just an engineer. There is a need to capture innovation and creativity within the engineering world and encourage young engineers to be entrepreneurial for themselves, or their organisations. In the following set of topic areas, you will develop your understanding of a leader’s unique role and vital tasks: by considering four common leadership styles and their advantages; disadvantages; and applications of business with risk awareness; marketing knowledge and managing customers and suppliers.

Overarching themes

• Understand four leadership styles in enterprise and their skill set and qualities.
• A leader’s role to inspire, enable and deliver success.
• Negotiation in enterprise, innovation, and design.
• Steps in a simple negotiation process and the meaning of ‘win-win’.

Leadership for entrepreneurs

Negotiation skills for entrepreneurs