Self-Development for Engineers & Technicians
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INTRODUCTION
This course is focused on your career as an engineer or Technician.It provides an opportunity to interrogate and scrutinise your career plans. This might be the first time you have really considered your future career as an engineer; although, particularly if you are already working in engineering, it won’t be new at all. Even if you do already have strong career plans, don’t think that these plans can’t be reflected and improved upon. It might not be your first time considering and planning your career as an engineer, but it might be the first time you can do it without your boss or line manager peering over your shoulder.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Master fabrication, assembly and additive manufacturing processes
- Understand product, process, and production design and management
- Learn PLC equipment, programming and communication
- Understand advances in metallurgy and materials science
- Learn the basics of Six Sigma, 5S, Lean and TPM
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COURSE AUDIENCE
This course is made for :
- Operation
- Production Managers
- Technicians
- Machine Operators
- Supervisors
- Directors
- Others who are involved in the day to day activities in the manufacturing sector.
- Managers of engineers and scientists looking to hone their business and leadership skills
- Engineers and scientists on a career path to develop into technical managers
- Cross-functional team leaders who interface with scientists and engineers
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COURSE OUTLINE
Day One
- The Management Perspective – How Managers Earn Their Keep
- The value proposition of management
- The “Peter Principle” and how to avoid this trap
- Understanding the most important errors that managers commonly make – and how to steer clear of major supervisory pitfalls
- Why people usually struggle to cooperate, and how you can reduce this
- What You Need to Know about Today’s Workforce
- The evolution of leadership thought, and why recent events have significantly changed effective leadership methods
- Understanding what leadership is really about
- Why teamwork and cooperation are necessary in modern corporate structures
- How you can generate consistent focus and daily commitment among technical and engineering professionals
- Playing “The Tower Game” – applying focus and commitment
- The Psychology of Successful Modern Leadership
- Process centered leadership: getting sustained results
- Task and relationship balances
- Why “Output Leadership” is ineffective and counter-productive
- Different kinds of team models – and which is most effective
- How to reduce the influence of “bad” politics in an organization through constructive decision making processes
Day Two
- The Psychology of Change
- Why change is often stressful
- Five stages of change
- How to make change exciting and interesting
- Emotional Intelligence: Building an Effective Leadership Style
- Why “emotional intelligence” is important – the research results
- The five elements of emotional leadership
- How to practice and develop greater emotional intelligence
- Solving typical meeting problems with emotional intelligence
- Coaching in Supervision
- Building trust
- Coaching roles
- Improving communication for constructive coaching
- Using Meeting Time Effectively
- Five key issues for successful meetings
- How teamwork breaks down in meetings, and how to correct this
Day Three
- Dealing with Practical Issues
- Dealing with difficult people
- Learning how to delegate effectively
- Basic Negotiation Principles
- Soft & hard negotiating approaches
- Win-win negotiation
- Positions, interests, & goals
- How to Make Performance Reviews Constructive
- Legal requirements
- Style issues
- 360 reviews
Day Four
- Towards productivity & product quality
- To improve skills that are required to achieve goals set by the individual industries
- Understand Change
- Managing Change – Your Role
- What is success to you?
- Roles and responsibilities of technicians
- Challenges of management
- Signs of an organization success
- Technicians relationship with the company
- How management looks at technicians?
Day Five
- Technicians Success Profile
- Individual Exercise
Principles of an Effective Technician - What Is Work?
- What Is Excellence Work Culture?
- Understanding the Change Model
- 3 Mindset Model
- Continuous Improvement
- Comfort Zone
- Reactive
- Reviewing your work habits
- Developing a winner attitude
- From being reactive to proactive
- From resisting change to leading change
- From disowning responsibility to owning responsibility
- Maintenance Disciplines And Approach
- Individual Exercise
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