Management Skills and Techniques for Engineers
5 DaysManagement Skills and Techniques for Engineers
Course Methodology
This course utilizes a number of assessments to give participants an opportunity to leverage their strong points and improve their weaknesses in order to ensure a successful transition to new functional and people responsibilities. The course also leverages open discussions around thorny issues to encourage analytical thinking and foster healthy communication. Participants will also get the chance to work in teams as they tackle multiple case studies and exercises revolving around project management and business problems.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Develop insight into the functions of management
- Apply project planning skills from a business perspective
- Identify and use the right performance Indicators (KPIs) to manage business performance
- Communicate and work with others to achieve the desired goals
- Acquire team building techniques to enhance business performance
- Employ unbiased problem solving and decision making practices
Target Audience
Technical managers, supervisors and engineers who need to develop their managerial skills.
Target Competencies
- People and performance management
- Team formation and management
- Individual and team motivation
- Managing conflicts
- Solving problems
- Effective communication
- Workforce planning and scheduling
- Basic financial knowledge
Course Outline
- The journey from technical to managerial
- Engineers versus management
- Typical issues faced by engineers when they become managers
- The fundamental shift in roles
- Managing the transition
- Understanding the different functions of management
- Productivity - A management perspective
- Essential skills for engineers
- Technical
- Managerial
- Leadership
- Management mistakes engineers need to avoid
- Engineers versus management
- Planning and organizing tools and techniques
- At a personal level
- At a project management level
- Fundamentals of project management - A quick review
- Scheduling and organizing
- Workforce planning
- Leading projects successfully
- At an organizational level
- Managing performance
- Engineers and business performance management
- Setting performance expectations
- Working with key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Developing 'SMART' business objectives
- Business targets and performance standards
- Management and motivation
- Engineers and business performance management
- Working with others
- Engineers as business influencers
- Barriers to communication
- Developing effective communication
- Managing conflicts
- Building successful teams
- Teams and teamwork
- Engineers as team leaders
- Understanding group dynamics
- Building high performance teams
- Stages of team formation
- Problem analysis and decision making
- Engineers as business decision makers
- Kepner Tregoe approach to problem solving
- Situation appraisal
- Problem analysis
- Decision analysis
- Potential problem analysis
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