ENS 002 – Leading Your Engineering Team to Top Performance

ENS 002 – Leading Your Engineering Team to Top Performance

Teachers
IR. Nadrajah Jayaseelan
Category:
Engineering Softskills/ In-House Programs/ Technical & Engineering/
LEADING YOUR ENGINEERING TEAM TO TOP PERFORMANCE

Duration: 2 Days
Lectures: InHouse
Certificate of Completion

INTRODUCTION

This course is industry designed, to provide a broad understanding of the improvement methodology, concepts, and process. The methodology is presented with case studies and examples drawn from service, and business process applications. The integration of manufacturing and maintenance is also addressed. With a heavy practice orientation, as much as a third of your time will be spent working through interactive practical exercises and assessments. This course is designed as an introduction to concepts and methodology.

Objective

  • Understand organizational realities and financial issues
  • Improve performance by applying six sigma methods
  • Define and measure high performance
  • Apply change processes and lead desired change
  • Solve both technical and “people” problems
  • Recognize and deal effectively with cross-cultural issues
  • Use self-understanding to improve their individual management and leadership styles
  • Improve communication and listening skills
  • How to build and manage teams
  • Exercise appropriate leadership methods
  • Motivate and influence followers, peers, and other stakeholders
  • Apply group dynamics to get better team performance

Who should attend?

Manufacturing, process, executives, managers, maintenance personnel, operational managers project managers, and team leaders.

Methodology

  1. The latest educational methods and strategies will be utilized.
  2. The course is designed to maximize delegate participation.
  3. Questions and answers are encouraged throughout and at the daily wrap-up sessions. This gives participants the opportunity to discuss with others and the presenter their specific problems and appropriate solutions.
  4. The course shall be conducted through lectures, case studies, group discussions and exercises to reinforce participant’s learning

CURRICULUM

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Day One

  • What is high performance?
  • Developing a balanced scorecard to measure performance.

  • Project planning
  • The laws of empowerment and plans
  • Mind maps and work breakdown structures

  • How thinking affects communication, teamwork, and work performance
  • Understanding of individual profiles (feedback)
  • How to apply whole-brain thinking to solve problems, make better decisions , and communicate effectively.

  • Temperaments and types
  • Individual profiles (feedback)
  • Individual scores (feedback)

  •  360 feedback to participants on their styles
  • Case study examples-Situational leadership
  • LEAD self
  • The self-fulfilling prophecy;
  •  Belief systems
  • Emotional Intelligence and leadership competence (Impact on bottom line)

  • Team roles
  • Developing a team
  • Managing conflict in teams

Day Two

  • Establishing rapport
  • Presenting with impact

  • Dynamics of change
  • Leading needed change
  • Evolutionary versus revolutionary change (you want it to be evolutionary)

  • Team or individual decisions?
  • Avoiding decision-making pitfalls

  • What it is like around here–organization culture
  • Cultural differences in teams
  • Differences in leadership styles across cultures
  • Surviving cultural differences

  • Management roles
  • Dealing with politics in a positive way
  • Ethics

  • Overview of six-sigma methods
  • Role of the manager in six-sigma programs
  • Applying six sigma to knowledge work

About Instructors

IR. Nadrajah Jayaseelan
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