Leadership Skills for Technical Professionals: Improving your Leadership Skills as an Engineer, Technical Professional or Specialist

High performance technical leaders and managers are essential for organisations to perform well. It is common to hear of engineering management technical teams, production technical teams, technical service technical teams or even whole organisations being held back by poor managers.

Employers stress the importance of technical and engineering staff working as a technical team. However, many technical teams underperform, and this causes major problems for the organisation, and therefore the manager or leader.

This EuroMaTech Leadership Skills for Technical Professionals training course is designed to help you to:

• Enhance your management and leadership skills as a technical professional
• Motivate and manage your technicians and engineers for performance
• Deal effectively with challenging conversations in a technical team
• Build a high-performance team or engineering and technical professionals
• Obtain success through dynamic technical team development
• Enhance leadership skills including setting direction, aligning people, motivating, and inspiring, leading teams, and communicating.
• Learn how to build relationships, negotiate, and lead change.

Programme Objectives

• Recognize the difference in managing and leading technical teams or technical professionals
• Study the different team player styles and their impact
• Devise a strategy to manage the team through the stages of development
• Discover techniques for improving their personal performance as a manager leader
• Examine the art of motivating technical employees
• Consider methods of dealing with conflicts between team members
• Review strategies for handling difficult people