Engineering Leadership
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Class Description
Date: 02 – 03 June 2025
Duration: 2 Days
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Aspiring to take on a leadership role is very a positive trait to encourage in people, especially early-career engineers. However, leadership is a very challenging skill to teach. Many people appear to be natural leaders without any formal training, while other people appear to be unteachable in their efforts to become effective leaders.
The fundamental success factor for leading an activity and/or a team rather than simply doing something, is taking accountability for the outcome. Taking accountability differentiates leaders from contributors. Preparing people for leadership roles can be effectively addressed in moderated workshops led by people who have experience in successfully leading teams and organisations themselves.
Technically complex product and system developments require experienced leaders to ensure successful deliveries. During the time critical development phases, there will be many challenging technical and commercial issues to address, many expectations to be managed and many uncertainties to be identified and managed. In addition to applying methods for resolving conflicts and negotiating difficult agreements, engineers often need to also improve their own communication and organisational skills to become more effective team leaders.
This 2-day workshop is composed of eight moderated sessions, each beginning with relevant theory, then followed by interactive and moderated activities. The sessions fulfil the 80:20 rule with respect to Practice:Theory, ensuring a hands-on approach to learning.
Each attendee receives an individual customised report on their performance and proposed next steps in their career.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Detailed understanding of personal strengths and weaknesses in leadership roles
- Understanding of key characteristics of effective leaders
- Know historic examples of good and bad leadership practices applied in complex technical developments
- Know effective methods for making difficult leadership decisions
- Apply effective strategies for managing confrontations in senior leadership roles
- Apply practical conflict management, negotiation and communication methods
- Apply methods for managing commercial and executive expectations
- Experience leading by example
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Lead Systems Engineers
- Lead Architects
- Development Leads
- Matrix Leads
- Work-Package Leaders
- Team Leads
- Department Leads
- Product Managers
- Product Owners
- Project Managers
- Engineering Management