Learn the relevant leadership skills required to move into a supervisory and managerial role in your organization. This course provides the foundation for increased awareness of your personal management style and identifies ways to create a work environment for optimal output for your team.
This is a required course in the Engineering Management Certificate Program and an elective course in the Industrial Engineering Professional Skills Certificate Program. Learn more about IIE certificate programs and how you can save by paying in advance for all of the courses included in a program. 
Class Schedule:
| Course ID | Course Dates | Location | Register |
| 1706 | Jun 17 - 19, 2013 | Norcross, GA | Register |
| 1809 | Aug 05 - 07, 2014 | Norcross, GA | Register |
Overview:
If you are transitioning from technical responsibility to managerial responsibility, this course is your opportunity to learn the skills you’ll need to manage effectively. Your new managerial role will require a new set of skills and knowledge in which engineers and scientists are typically not trained – managerial processes and leadership skills. One set of skills centers on the best practice managerial processes. Research has shown the most effective managers use and train their teams in systematic best practice processes. These managers add value by being “process owners.” Understanding this role improves your ability to identify, prioritize and resolve barriers to your team’s performance, help to solve problems quickly, make critical decisions effectively and protect your plans to assure implementation of your decisions and recommendations. A second focus of the course addresses the leadership skills or “core content people skills” in which technical professionals are seldom trained. These leadership and teaming skills include understanding and applying these theories for effective leadership behaviors. The course is aimed at increasing your awareness and skill level in motivating; using effective management styles and interpersonal and relationship building with your subordinates, peers and supervisor; teaching/coaching/mentoring; goal setting; delegation; time management; team building; and personal growth.
Topic Highlights:
- Assessing and developing management style and interpersonal skills
- Creating an effective work environment
- Defining the engineering manager's role
| - Developing action plans
- Identifying problem areas
- Team management and supervisory skills
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What You Will Learn:
- Conduct more efficient and effective meetings
- Facilitate decision making under time pressure or with limited data
- Handle fast-changing technology issues
- Set realistic, measurable and meaningful objectives
- Solve people performance problems more effectively
- Explain the role of the engineer as a manager