Management Skills for Engineers, Scientists, and Other Technical Professionals

engineeeSome people think that management is management is management.  But, when dealing with highly technical people, it just isn’t so.  For these professionals there are subtle, yet profound differences.  In this course, you to effectively learn how to do the following with a bit more emphasis on Why:

  • Create a "high involvement" work force
  • Acquire the specific skills to be an effective manager
  • Understand the application of emotional intelligence
  • Manage and understand human behavior
  • Build trust
  • Understand the process of management/leadership

This course will help you get the results you want "through the use of people."  Your organization's success depends on how much the Professional understands the new challenge.  The new worker is more independent, more resourceful and wants a say. He/she does not respond well to PUSH, CONTROL, and CONFORM.  New attitudes and behavior are needed to meet the challenge.  Reorganizing, trimming the ranks, and reducing budgets means that there are more responsibilities and more results expected from the smaller work force. This course is EXCITING, CHALLENGING, THOUGHT PROVOKING and FUN, too.

Duration:

2 Days

Objectives:

After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Lead with confidence
  • Gain your team’s trust and respect
  • Improve the bottom-line through greater productivity
  • Build Followership
  • Gain the trust of your management
  • Recognize that there are no instant cures, gimmicks or programs that solve problems
  • Implement leadership solutions based on the fundamental concepts of Working Cooperatively with People, Values, and Sound Reasoning.

Topics:

  • Increase the productivity of teams, groups and projects through leadership
  • How to state a results-oriented, measurable goal
  • Communicating with difficult people
  • The motivational process
  • Helping others grow-train-counsel
  • Making decisions-problem solving
  • Building commitment while assuring accountability
  • Defining team members roles and relationships
  • Involving others in goal setting
  • Knowing your management profile
  • Schools of management
  • Group behavior
  • Ethics in management
  • Build commitment and productivity
  • The unmotivated employee
  • You must revise schedules due to lack of coordination
  • Teams that are "individuals" rather than a group working together
  • You finish a job and upper management expected something else
  • You set policy and your employees complain

Methods:

The Lausanne Institute is committed to the application of classroom learning to the workplace setting. We employ a variety of instructional training methods to assure skills transfer. These include:

  • Group Dynamics
  • Guided Conferences
  • Simulations
  • Case Studies
  • Lecturettes
  • Skill Practice Exercises