Introduction

This workshop trains competencies needed to lead projects, drive innovation, and influence others in an engineering role or similar technical job. Participants learn the differences between leadership and management and how to develop specific leadership abilities that are important to engineers and technical professionals. The most important leadership traits that apply to technical project leadership responsibilities are emphasized.

Participants engage in exercises that assess their individual leadership abilities and provide guidance for further development. Case studies and real-life examples illustrate how the principles apply on the job. The studies and examples are drawn from a broad range of engineering team environments at small, medium, and large companies serving many industries.

Learning Objectives

• Characteristics of a great leader; influence without authority; how leadership facilitates good management; leadership myths and misconceptions.
• Understanding your audience; perception about benefits; getting sup-port for new ideas; understanding management’s perspective; Case Study: “Wasting Time on Documentation.”
• Leadership and management call on different abilities; Warren Bennis’ perspective; management skills relevant to all engineers; self-assessment part one.
• Becoming a better listener; fulfilling interests and engaging your audience; inspiring action; addressing diverse communication needs; communicating a vision; goal-oriented communication.
• Opportunities for building rapport; building rapport with managers; helping others to see your view; give, take and compromise; self-assessment part two.
• Three important objectives; action plan.
• Range of conflict; constructive, healthy conflict vs. destructive behavior; engaging conflict avoiders; ideal conflict model    for innovation.
• Overcoming teamwork obstacles; 20 elements of trust and respect; Maxwell’s Five Levels of Leadership; case studies; self-assessment part three.
• Three goals for developing leadership ability; setting future goals

Recommended Participants

• IT Professionals
• Technical Marketing Professionals
• R&D Staff / Leaders
• Project Leaders
• Managers

Training Format

The training is specially designed, includes

• Team activities
• Best-practices sharing
• Relevant selling skills questionnaire
• Story-telling
• Individual and group exercises
• Video-based activities

Materials Provided

• Printed Training Material
• Topic Related Templates for Performance Improvement
• Training Attendance Certificates