LEADERSHIP FOR ENGINEERS

Objective: Customized leadership development

This workshop maybe taught in four or eight hours

Today’s work environment has forced people to wear multiple hats, some fit better than others because of our natural personality, education or background. Engineers possess many valuable qualities, but are seldom provided the management training required to be a strong leader. Ed O. Bridgman is a unique individual with an Electrical Engineering background and a Master’s degree in Business combined with a passion for working with people to reach their maximum potential. He has developed this workshop to speak the “Engineer’s” language while introducing valuable managerial concepts. Providing insight into the personal and professional responsibility for self-management extended to managing others.

Participants are provided a workbook.

Topics include:

• Recognizing the differences between effective leadership and managing skills

• Adapt participant’s leadership style to fit any situation

• Workforce diversity is good, when dealt with correctly

• Motivate and transform employees by encouraging risk, responsibility, and accountability

• Discover the three areas of 100% responsibility

• Identify leadership individual strengths and weaknesses

• Create an individual leadership plan that will serve as a foundation for participants’ day-to-day leadership and management activities

Seminar consists of:

• Small and large group discussions

• Role playing by facilitator and every participant

Organizational Benefits:

• Increase willingness to take personal responsibility for participant’s own choices

• Fewer complaints by engineers and the employees that report to them

• Improved leadership effectiveness

• Reduced turnover

• Improved MORAL