Leading Individuals and Successful Engineering Teams

Description:
This course has been specifically designed to provide all engineers and technical professionals with a leadership course that specifically addresses people management of engineering projects and teams. It gets to the heart of good leadership, of high performance and the key ingredients of successful teams. Participants are shown how to identify key challenges they face at work; understand team behaviours and will work together on an action plan to move forward successfully. Group work is an extensive part of
the workshop.

What you will learn:
How to:

• Define a successful leader
• Identify the characteristics of exceptional leaders
• Describe the steps of performance management
• Compare various motivation theories and techniques
• Describe the various approaches to employee development
• Develop a coaching and personal development plan
• Discuss key attributes of a successful team
• Describe the skills needed for a successful team management
• Recognise symptoms of a team in trouble
• Identify ways to save a team in trouble
• Define diversity
• Identify the challenges that may arise due to a diverse workforce
• Identifying ways to raise performance