Management Skills: Managing Technical Professionals

Course Overview

As an engineer or technical professional, training is essential to help you make the smooth transition to a managerial role.As your career develops, you need to adapt from being a team member to a team leader by learning key management and communication skills.

This programme covers specific problems many technical people have in assuming a managerial role using real, relevant examples. It will show you how to organise a group of technical people for maximum effectiveness, staff in a way that matches jobs with talent, delegate intelligently and motivate your team to peak performance.

Audience

• Engineer professionals who are making the transition to a role with managerial responsibilities. Specific job functions include engineering super visors
• project engineers
• production managers
• design team leaders
• systems engineers
• IT managers
• Telecoms managers.

Skills Gained

• Identify your management style and its strengths and weaknesses
• Learn key communication skills for managers
• Improve the effectiveness and performance of your team
• Adapt from team member to team leader in a technical environment
• Develop a 'toolbox' of skills you can apply to any managerial situation
• Work effectively with all personality types
• Define priorities and organise work effectively by planning
• Delegate appropriately and efficiently
• Manage performance through effective objective setting and coaching

Management Skills: Managing Technical Professionals / 2874610