Management Skills for Engineers

SUITABLE FOR:

Managers, Superintendents, Engineers and those working with engineers that need to broaden their management knowledge.

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the course, delegates will:

• Have a greater level of confidence in their ability to influence and take decisions.
• Have a broad view of business in general and their own business in particular.
• Have set themselves targets for personal development, against realistic time scale within the framework of their own and corporate objectives.

SUMMARY:

Organisations cannot afford to rely on functional specialists working in isolation for competitive success. Engineers need to deliver effective results working cross-functionally using all available resources. In order to create and capitalise on opportunities, Engineers must have a personal vision of what it takes to achieve competitive success in order to lead and develop their organisation. Topics to be covered include:

Day One

• The importance of knowing and understanding the organizations vision and mission statements and the organisations operating culture
• The definitions of business objectives, strategy and critical success factors
• Implementation strategy and potential problem solving preventative and contingency actions
• Are we really as good as we think we are? – Introduction to benchmarking and best practice
• The cornerstones of quality
• 'Doers' and 'Managers' in terms of technical competence and conceptual models
• Delegate complete a personality assessment questionnaire

Day Two

• Situational leadership styles and approaches
• Team performance
• Managing strategic change including S.W.O.T. analysis
• The management strategist and the characteristics of a 'change agent'

Day Three

• Change – the transitional process
• The managers financial accountability
• Conflict and how to deal with it

Day Four

• Persuasion and influencing strategies
• Power centers
• Introduction to assertiveness

Day Five

• Introduction to personality profiling and discussion of job relevance
• Delegates receive individual feedback of their personality profiles
• Introduction of creativity, approaches and techniques including 'mind mapping'