Effective leadership can help companies innovate more effectively. Learn how to be a leader who inspires innovation and creativity in your team with the new eight-week online course, The Leadership & Innovation for Technology Professionals, led by MIT's David Niño, starting January 7. 

This course was previously titled The Intersection of Leadership & Innovation.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Understand how leadership enables innovation by building strategies, structures and cultures that support creativity
• Recognize the links between creativity (a new or useful idea) and innovation(the execution and adoption of creative ideas)
• Reframe the importance of identifying and defining problems to spur creativity and enable innovation
• Increase self-awareness of your personal leadership style and its effects on group creativity and innovation that delivers results
• Strengthen leadership skills to create sustainable, innovative teams and cultures
• Increase effectiveness in building and leading high-performing teams
• Articulate visions that inspire others to unleash motivations central to successful innovation