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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
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Recent press as seen in the Engineering Management Society Newsletter
Engineers promoted into leadership positions face new sets of challenges. Making a successful transition to leadership requires new knowledge and skills.
The Engineering Leadership Institute (ELI) develops the skills required to succeed in a leadership role. The ELI program includes an initial intensive training week as well as three follow up programs over a two year period to hone leaders’ skills as they advance in their careers.
UT’s Center for Lifelong Engineering Education will provide a 5-day immersion course, the Engineering Leadership Institute, May 14-18, 2007. This program also includes 3 follow-up 2 day conferences on Leadership *hot topics* -- Further dates TBA.
Executives can nominate potential participants for acceptance into this program: - 1) Nominations may be submitted by participant’s immediate supervisor or appropriate executive
- 2) Participants should be engineering managers or individual contributors who are on track to become leaders within their organizations
Key Benefits - Learn to manage collaborative relationships across the organization
- Gain support for your ideas and projects
- Improve your communication skills
- Gain a broad understanding of the skills needed for engineering leadership
- Learn how to build high performance teams
- Improve your outcomes through the use of practical negotiation skills
- Manage conflict
- Learn tools to help you manage risk
- Acquire tools for strategic planning and building a roadmap for your department
- Understand the dynamics of managing innovative projects
2007 Program Curriculum
Communications
Leslie Martinich
May 14, 2007
8:30am-12:00pm - Tailoring communications to your audience
- Using narratives and stories to communicate a message
- Presenting ideas with impact
- Understanding cultural and gender communication differences
- Understanding personal type differences (MBTI)
- Listening to understand
- Delivering bad news
| Building Collaborative Relationships across the Organization
Cath Polito
May 14, 2007
1:00pm-5:00pm - Creating and maintaining an effective network
- Generating commitment
- Working with your peers, your management team, and your employees
- Communicating effectively across your organization
- Fostering collaboration throughout your organization
| Gaining Support for your Projects / Communications
Leslie Martinich / Cath Polito
May 14, 2007
6:30pm-7:30pm - Recognizing who the stakeholders are
- Building an effective network of support
- Understanding the stakeholders’ values and priorities
- Constructing a Communications Plan
- Engaging your stakeholders
- Simulation, activity 1
| Building High Performance Teams
Cath Polito
May 15, 2007
8:30am-12:00pm - Recognizing and deploying the strengths and skills of team members
- Coaching and mentoring for results
- Setting goals
- Overcoming obstacles to team performance and success
| Managing Innovation
Leslie Martinich
May 15, 2007
1:00pm-5:00pm - Understanding why innovation is important
- Understanding the skills needed for bringing an innovation to market
- Using an Innovation Hub
- Managing the tension between radical and incremental innovation
- Understanding how radical innovations affect product development
- Analyzing problems related to commercialization of new technologies
| Gaining Support for your projects /Communications
Leslie Martinich / Cath Polito
May 15, 2007
6:30pm-7:30pm | Risk Management
Bruce McCann
May 16, 2007
8:30am-12:00pm - Building project teams that can learn and adapt to new information
- Establishing early warning systems to identify environmental changes
- Identifying and quantifying risks affecting project execution
- Defining alternatives and trade-offs
- Managing product and project risks through risk mitigation
- Understanding the tools for structuring problems involving risk and uncertainty
| Strategic Planning
Bruce McCann
May 16, 2007
1:00pm-5:00pm - Building a Road Map for your department
- Understanding the strategic drivers that affect performance in the technology industry
- Understanding and Using Tools for Strategic Analysis
- Aligning product development with your organization’s strategy
| Gaining Support for your projects /Comm.
Leslie Martinich / Cath Polito
May 16, 2007
6:30pm-7:30pm | Practical Negotiation Skills
Gaylen Paulson
May 17, 2007
8:30am-12:00pm - Understanding the behavior of groups, organizations and individuals
- Understanding the negotiation process
- Using effective negotiation strategies
- Planning for negotiation
- Understanding conflict
- Self assessment
- Situational analysis
- Communication skills
- Dealing with difficult people
- Responding to attacks
- Adapting to different styles
- How to survive tough negotiations
- Strategies for impasse resolution
- Group negotiations
- Techniques for influence and persuasion
- Avoiding common negotiation pitfalls
| Conflict Management
Gaylen Paulson
May 17, 2007
1:00pm-5:00pm - Dealing with difficult employees
- Overcoming objections
- Overcoming fear of conflict
- Handling difficult work situations
| Gaining Support for your projects /Comm.
Leslie Martinich / Cath Polito
May 17, 2007
6:30pm-7:30pm | Engineering Leadership
Leslie Martinich
May 18, 2007
8:30am-12:00pm - Understanding your leadership style
- Using alternative leadership styles as teams evolve
- Leading and improving the product development process
- Building new technical capabilities in your team
- Trusting others; letting go of your former tasks
- Transferring learning across projects
- Developing an effective approach for problem solving and decision making
- Designing a team that learns over time
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Contact Information
Theresa
Dobbs
Sr. Manager
tdobbs@mail.utexas.edu
(512)
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Course Location
J. J. Pickle Research Campus
Commons Building
Room 1.162
10100 Burnet Road
Austin, TX 78758
Telephone: (512) 471-5898
Fax: (512) 471-3679
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Attendance Policy
A 90% attendance rate is required in order to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and certificates of completion.
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Cancellation Policy
A full refund, less a $100.00 processing fee, will be given for all cancellations or transfers if notification is received on or before two weeks prior to the beginning of the course. Refunds will not be given for cancellations received after this date. Substitutions may be made anytime prior to the first day of class. The CLEE programs are subject to cancellation if too few people enroll, in which case a full refund will be given.
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Hotel Information
For a list of local hotels: www.utexas.edu/commons/hotels.html.
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Payment Policy
The Center for Lifelong Engineering Education policy states that as of January 2010, the payment due date for all courses is two weeks prior to the class start date. Full payment must be received prior to attending the class. The exceptions to this rule are individuals attending on a company-generated purchase order (PO) or state employees. These individuals need to identify themselves as such and provide appropriate supporting documentation. The final opportunity to gain entry to the course will be to make full payment on-site during check-in on the first day of class.
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