Effective People Management for Engineers: Foundations

Delivery: Online

Enjoy this program from anywhere in the world.

Schedule: Synchronus

Learn and grow alongside ambitious colleagues through scheduled classes and coaching sessions.

Duration: 10 Weeks

This is a 10-week program with class time, coaching sessions, and independent work each week.

Perfect for: Individuals and Organizations

Anyone can enroll in an upcoming public session. Organizations may alternatively opt for private cohorts.

About the Program

Effective People Management for Engineers: Foundations is a group program deigned to help engineers learn and apply the fundamentals of people management.

If you’re responsible for the growth, development, and performance of people within your organization, this program is for you.

This program is designed to equip engineers with the knowledge, skills, and systems to effectively lead people in technical organizations.

Why You Should Enroll

  • Build confidence: Lead your people with confidence, knowing that you’ve got systems in place for all your day-to-day needs.
  • Grow your people: Proactively help your staff develop new skills and improve existing ones.
  • Reduce stress: Keep everything in order and stay on top everything with the right skills and systems.
  • Stop firefighting: Avoid getting sucked into emergencies as a matter of routine.
  • Improve performance: Learn to coach people to higher performance and to address preformance issues before they become real problems. 

    Program Structure

    The Project Management Foundations Program takes place over 10 weeks. It includes:

    • Weekly interactive learning sessions to understand the core concepts
    • Weekly group office hours to have questions answered and to learn from peers
    • Biweekly individual coaching calls for irect support
    • Completion of a small independent project to reinforce what is learned.

    Students will also get access to class presentations, video replays, worksheets, and templates for use throughout the couse. All materials are kept on a dedicated website for the cohort of students to use throughout the program.

    Week 1: Introduction to people management 

    Week 2: Coaching, management and leadership

    Weeks 3 – 4: Establishing team values, goals and vision, aligning to organizational goals

    Week 5: Professional Development (Goal setting, training, eduction, experience)

    Weeks 6 – 7: Performance Management (Goal setting, coaching, one-on-one meetings, managing to values)

    Weeks 8 – 9: Addressing common challenges (absenteeism, poor performance, ambitious employees)

    Week 10: End of program, review of key concepts.

    Enroll Today

    Contact us today to learn how you can enroll in an upcoming public session, or to organize a custom program for your organization.

    Instructors

    Pat Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, CSEP, PMP

    Pat Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, CSEP, PMP

    President, The Engineering & Leadership Project

    Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, PMP, CSEP is a recognized expert in engineering management, productivity, and leadership. He is the president of The Engineering & Leadership Project, which specializes in leadership and management development, training, and consulting for engineers and engineering firms. He also hosts the popular Engineering & Leadership Podcast, a show dedicated to helping engineering leaders thrive.

    Prior to launching The Engineering & Leadership Project, Pat spent 13 years in industry. His work focused predominantly on leading and managing engineers through complex systems integration projects in the rail and defence industries. He's worked as a product manager, project manager, systems engineering manager, and as the head of configuration management at a large naval combat systems integrator.

    Pat has a bachelor of engineering from Dalhousie University and an MBA from the Royal Military College of Canada. He's also a professional engineer licensed in Nova Scotia, Canada, a Certified Systems Engineering Professional (INCOSE), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMI).

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