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Becoming a Fully Integrated Engineer™
The facilitation programs listed below are partially customized for your organization and are designed for those engineers your organization has selected to be more involved in engineering decisions and leadership while remaining engineers (not transitioning into management). They have great technical skills and your organization wants these engineers to be more fully integrated into the organization so their engineering contributions can have a greater impact. The organization wants these engineers to be more effective at communication, influence, and team contribution.
Module 1: Critical Soft Skills for Engineers.
(Prerequisites: None / Duration: 2 days / Class size is limited to 20 participants)
Communication is fundamental to all human interactions. However, it doesn't take long to realize that engineers tend to rely on data and information when communicating and are not very interested in the interpersonal aspect, the soft skills, of the communication process. It was not a subject taught in college but in the work world it is critical to continued success. This module makes up for that deficit.
Module 2: Effective Communication With Customers When You Are the Technical Expert. (Prerequisites: None / Duration: 2 days / Class size is limited to 20 participants)
There are times when organization requires that their engineers talk to and explain technical information to customers or potential customers. Every organization is constantly seeking engineers with the capability to adjust their communication, in real-time, so that information is most effectively conveyed to the customer. This type of engineer, one who can bridge this gap, is rare and valuable.
Module 3: Influencing Without Authority for Technical Professionals.
(Prerequisites: None / Duration: 2 days / Class size is limited to 20 participants)
Engineers often don't like the word "influence". They'd rather the "data" or the "information" convince everyone of the same, self-evident conclusion. The very best engineers, the most effective technically, programmatically, and operationally can smoothly influence a wide variety of people, even those over whom they have no authority.
Module 4: Be the Engineer Your Manager Wants To Promote. (Prerequisites: None / Duration: 1 day)
Some engineers seem to be extremely effective at getting things done, influencing those around them, and understanding the structure and rules that govern their organization and customer relations. They have those traits and behaviors that managers expect in those people that they want to promote.