Essential Management Skills 2019

University of Warwick, Coventry

03 April 2019 - 05 April 2019

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Level 3 CMI Award	CMI Mandatory Workshops	Workshops
Industry Site Visits	Programme	Workshop Facilitator and Speaker biographies

What does it take to be a truly effective manager? Gain the skills and knowledge needed at Essential Management Skills 2019!

Engineering managers need to offer more than just technical excellence. This three-day conference will equip today’s engineers with the essential management skills required for success within line and project management roles. Attend this event to improve your ability to manage yourself, projects and teams. You can also take the opportunity to gain a Level 3 Award in First Line Management, awarded by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Essential Management Skills 2019 will enable you to:

Hear from pioneers in engineering about their career journeys through our programme of plenary session speakers
Develop the skills needed to be a successful engineering manager through our expert-led workshops
Attend one of our industry site visits to see first-hand how a leading engineering firm operates
Test your teamwork and leadership abilities within a business environment through our interactive Engineering Challenge
Gain technical and management insights first-hand from experts in the field of engineering through our Question Time Panel
Network with engineering leaders and your peers through our programme of evening social events

Chartered Management Institute's Level 3 Award in First Line Management

The Level 3 Award in First Line Management provides an introduction to the skills, roles and responsibilities of this management area and provides individuals with an award as hard evidence of their knowledge. It will develop your basic knowledge by focusing on the development of specific management skills. This will also provide you with a year’s study membership with the Chartered Management Institute and access to thousands of online management and leadership resources.

*CMI Level 3 Award requires attendance of the following two workshops: Manager? Leader? – What’s the difference? and Inspiring leaders - it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it. A 2,500 word assignment and online learning will also need to be completed in CMI's digital portal within 1 year of attending the conference.

Industry Site Visits - 3rd April 2019

Day 1 will give you the opportunity to visit one of the following companies in order to observe successful management initiatives and gain insider knowledge on engineering practice:

Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, Brixworth, Northamptonshire
Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains is a Daimler AG company whose principal activities are the design and manufacture of Mercedes-Benz Formula 1 racing engines and hybrid power systems for the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS team. On this visit, discover the best management processes to improve performance, observe how F1 engines are designed, manufactured and tested, and hear from the Engineering and Programme Directors on future challenges in F1.

Bladon Jets, Coventry
Take this opportunity to visit the Bladon Jets’ Research & Development and Pre Production Assembly Operations at The Proving Factory in Coventry. Here the company is developing the Bladon 12kW microturbine genset (MTG) as a cost effective, clean alternative for telecom tower power applications. Hear about their unique design expertise and manufacturing processes and how they are leading the way in bringing this breakthrough solution to volume production for key growth markets worldwide.

Caterpillar Defence Products (CDP), Shrewsbury
Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial turbines and diesel electric locomotives. The Shrewsbury facility specialises in diesel engines, transmissions and power packs for military applications, along with the re-manufacture of engines and components for both Caterpillar and Perkins products. Gain an insight into the management techniques and skills used to enable CDP to achieve technical excellence on time. Learn about the engineering challenges faced in military products and how these are being addressed to ensure the best capability for future applications.

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Accommodation and catering at Essential Management Skills 2019:

Registration fees include 3 lectures, 4 workshops, 1 technical visit, 1 team-building exercise, and the conference dinner, as well as breakfast, lunch, refreshments and dinner each day, accommodation on Day 1 and 2 and a copy of the conference proceedings. Delegates will be contacted to supply their site visit and workshop preferences.

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Day 1

09:00 - Programme

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	WEDNESDAY, 3 APRIL 2019
09:00- 15:00	Attendees will have the opportunity to attend one of the following industry site visits: Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, Brixworth, Northamptonshire Discover the best management processes to improve performance, observe how F1 engines are designed, manufactured and tested, and hear from the Engineering and Programme Directors on future challenges in F1. Bladon Jets, Coventry Hear about their unique design expertise and manufacturing processes and how they are leading the way in bringing the Bladon 12kW microturbine genset (MTG) to volume production for key growth markets worldwide. Caterpillar Gain an insight into the management techniques and skills used to enable CDP to achieve technical excellence on time. Learn about the engineering challenges faced in military products and how these are being addressed to ensure the best capacity for future applications. Attendees will be contacted to confirm which of the site visits they would like to attend after booking onto the conference.
15:00	REGISTRATION - CONFERENCE RECEPTION Registration will be open from 15:00-17:00. Room keys will be available from the registration desk from 15:00
17:15	CHAIR’S INTRODUCTION – LIBRARY 2 Stephen Taylor Essential Management Skills 2019 Organising Committee
17:30	ENGINEERING CHALLENGE - PART 1 Take part in team-based tasks that test your engineering and collaboration skills
19:15- 22:00	DINNER AND ACTIVITY – THE DIRTY DUCK STUDENT UNION

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Day 2

08:00 - Programme

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	THURSDAY, 4 APRIL 2019
08:00	BREAKFAST - ROOTES RESTAURANT
09:00	PLENARY SESSION 1: THE MOTIVATION TO SUCCEED Ian Warhurst, Owner, Grafton LSR Limited
09:45	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK - HUMANITIES CONCOURSE
10:15	WORKSHOP SESSION 1 Attendees will have the opportunity to attend one of the following workshops. Further details of workshop facilitators can be found on the next page. Further details of the workshop content can be found on the website at www.imeche.org/ems. Mandatory CMI workshops are highlighted.
	MANAGER? LEADER? – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
	SOLVING PROBLEMS INNOVATIVELY
	DISAGREEING WITHOUT A FIGHT: MINIMISING DESTRUCTIVE CONFLICT
12:15	NETWORKING LUNCH - ROOTES RESTAURANT
13:15	WORKSHOP SESSION 2 Select one of the following workshops. Mandatory CMI workshops are highlighted.
	MANAGER? LEADER? – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
	DEVELOPING YOUR APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSPECTIVE
	GETTING TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE: SELF HELP FOR 21ST CENTURY ENGINEERS
15:15	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK - HUMANITIES CONCOURSE
15:45	PLENARY SESSION 2: ENGINEERING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT Markus Lloyd, Head of Business Sales Operations, O2 Telefonica UK
16:30	END OF CONFERENCE DAY TWO
17:30	NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION - HUMANITIES CONCOURSE
18:00	QUESTION TIME
	Take part in a lively debate with some of the most experienced and well-informed people in industry.
19:15	CONFERENCE DINNER - CHANCELLORS 1

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Day 3

08:00 - Programme

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	FRIDAY, 5 APRIL 2019
08:00	BREAKFAST - ROOTES RESTAURANT
09:00	ENGINEERING CHALLENGE – PART 2
11:00	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK - HUMANITIES CONCOURSE
11:30	WORKSHOP SESSION 3 Select one of the following workshops. Mandatory CMI workshops are highlighted.
	INSPIRING LEADERS - IT'S NOT WHAT YOU DO, IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT
	BARTER WITH THE BEST AND OTHER NEGOTIATION APPROACHES
	HOW DO I LEAD WHEN I'M NOT THEIR MANAGER?
13:30	NETWORKING LUNCH - ROOTES RESTAURANT
14:30	WORKSHOP SESSION 4 Select one of the following workshops. Mandatory CMI workshops are highlighted.
	INSPIRING LEADERS - IT'S NOT WHAT YOU DO, IT'S THE WAY THAT YOU DO IT
	BARTER WITH THE BEST AND OTHER NEGOTIATION APPROACHES
	GIVING FEEDBACK: HANDLING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
16:30	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK - HUMANITIES CONCOURSE
17:00	PLENARY SESSION 3: ENGINEERING & INNOVATION James Arnold, Head of Design Systems, Lilium
17:45	CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

CMI Mandatory Workshops:

Manager? Leader? What's the difference?
This workshop will provide you with a practical understanding of the roles and responsibilities of both managers and leaders and will enable you to understand when you need to lead and when you need to manage. Every role we take on, whether in our professional lives or even in our personal lives requires some management skills and some leadership skills. However, you cannot lead without followers. People will choose who they wish to follow and invariably they follow people who they trust, who inspire them and who act with integrity.

Inspiring leaders - it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it
Being an inspiration to others is something we all aspire to, whether as a leader or in other ways. Is it something we can learn or something we are born with? In this session we explore what makes an inspirational and motivational leader.
• Examine some key characteristics of leaders who inspire others
• Look at how successful leaders motivate others and some practical steps we can take to implement their ideas
• Decide if inspirational leadership is a choice we can make, or if it is just in the realms of management journals and publications

Workshops:

Developing your approach to communication: understanding the importance of perspective
Developing a powerful and flexible communication style is a great addition to the engineer’s toolkit. Through clear, concise and targeted communication engineers will be able to improve the influence they have over colleagues and improve their career development prospects. After attending this workshop, you will be able to communicate more clearly and effectively, improving the way you interact with your colleagues.

Getting to where you want to be: Self help for 21st Century engineers
Whatever you're working towards in your career, this workshop will help you understand how to plan your development to get there. The session will encourage you to step onto the ‘development ladder’ and look beyond formal training in order to develop. At the end of the session, individuals will have created an individual learning and development plan for them to take away and discuss with their managers at work.

Solving problems innovatively
Want some structured ways to create unstructured thinking (and therefore novel approaches & ideas)? Then this is for you. An intense, highly interactive workshop providing engineers (and those who work in an engineering environment), with a variety of creative tools & innovative processes guaranteed to raise their own effectiveness when problem solving and seeking new ideas.

The session demonstrates that everyone has creative potential by getting participants to try tools for generating & filtering options, developing the most appropriate and seeing examples of when best to use each tool. Participants will be able to use these skills in the workplace to make more effective, efficient and creative use of people’s time when working in teams to solve problems.

Barter with the best and other negotiation approaches
One of the keys to successful negotiation is to ensure that all parties are in agreement when the negotiation concludes. This session is an opportunity to learn some negotiating tools and techniques for a variety of workplace scenarios.
• Become an everyday negotiator
• Create your own climate of ‘negotiation’ awareness
• Plan and prepare for negotiation success

How do I lead when I'm not their manager?
Do you find yourself in a leadership position but without formal management authority? Perhaps you are responsible for delivering projects using contractors where traditional line management is less applicable? Perhaps you are the technical expert and prefer a technically focused career path – you still have to get things done through others but can’t tell people what to do? In any case, these scenarios represent complex business relationships and you need to be able to lead and influence those you work with.

Giving feedback: handling difficult conversations
No feedback no progress. That is true for individuals and companies. Doing a good job these days is not enough. You and everyone else in your organisation need to be seen as competent by others and to be open to suggestions & ideas they may provide on how you can improve the way you work. So why is it sometimes so difficult to convince others to embrace feedback? This vital activity can make the difference between a vibrant, productive and motivated workforce and one that is demoralised and often focusing on peripheral rather than core issues.
This workshop will provide you with the confidence in delivering feedback and build your knowledge and skills to both deliver and receive it with the help of some tools/frameworks.

Disagreeing without a fight: minimising destructive conflict
In a world where engineers are dependent on each other to get things done, disagreement is both inevitable and desirable. Different people have different opinions and perspectives and it's important to utilise these differences. Disagreements and conflict doesn't have to be negative, if handled correctly, it can be productive. This workshop will explore your conflict handling style and look at the tools and techniques you can use in order to get the best out of what can sometimes be seen as a bad situation.

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Liz Bennett: Manager? Leader? – What’s the difference? (CMI Module), .

Liz is an accomplished Learning and Development and HR professional with a wide range of experience in the consultancy, travel, retail, banking and manufacturing sectors. She has a track record of driving forward initiatives, developing teams and individuals and delivering performance benefits to customers and the business. She has designed and delivered bespoke leadership, personal development and commercial programmes to a broad mix of companies, from SMEs to global multinationals and in both the Public and Private sectors.

John Hattam: Inspiring leaders - it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it (CMI Module), .

John spent the first half of his working life in various senior sales, marketing and operational roles working for a number of companies including Sainsbury and Nestlé. Since becoming self-employed in 2006 he has built a successful consulting business in both the private and public sectors specialising in sales and marketing, new business, product and customer development, and business planning and turnaround. He also chairs the Governing Body at a local secondary school and runs his own wine importing business.

David Minchin: How do I lead when I'm not their manager?, Developing your approach to communication: understanding the importance of perspective

David’s career has involved nearly 30 years working within the Service Industry, in a number of senior management positions across several functions, including Operational Management, Learning and Development and Project Management. David manages his own L&D Consultancy business as a freelance trainer and consultant and advising on business restructures, re-direction and skills development.

Eddie Winton: How do I lead across generations?, Solving problems innovatively

Eddie is an accomplished leader/manager having occupied a range of positions over a period of 20 years in a number of large national & international organisations and across the Retail, Insurance and Finance sectors. Eddie moved into training consultancy where, over the last 12 years he has worked with a variety of organisations (including member and non-member employers) ranging from public and private sectors and from small locally based to large internationally recognised companies. This has seen him operate across the world gaining experience of differing cultures and approaches in excess of 40 different countries.

Steve Holloway: Giving feedback: handling difficult conversations, .

Steve is a Chartered Mechanical engineer with over 15 years experience working in the FMCG sector. Working at a senior level his career has included roles in Engineering, Marketing Innovation and Learning and Development.

As an Engineering Project Manager Steve was responsible for managing multi-million pound projects, whilst in Marketing Innovation Steve managed cross-functional and cross cultural teams involved in brand development and launch activities.

Working in Learning and Development Steve owned and managed the in company Leadership Academy and was responsible for leading Global Culture Change within the organisation.

Sarah Thompson: Disagreeing without a fight: minimising destructive conflict, .

Having spent over 20 years in the service/hospitality sector Sarah acquired a wealth of experience in the management and development of people. Working overseas for many of these years gave her a unique insight into a wide range of different cultures, management practices and methods of learning.

Sarah’s breadth of experience and her warm and intuitive personality are a weighty combination in helping your business to succeed. Her aim is to support your leaders to develop practical skills, which focus on business results and objectives, creating a stimulating workplace and minimising the stress of change.

Paul Taylor: Getting to where you want to be: Self Help for 21st Century Engineers, .

Over the last 20 years, Paul has delivered leadership programmes in over 35 countries for companies such as Ericsson, Virgin Media, May Guney, Delphi, EDF, Centrica, Eurostar, Atlas Copco and Northern Marine. His career encompasses management roles with a FTSE-50 organisation, including multi-million-pound budget responsibility though to establishing and running his own businesses.

Andy Webber: Barter with the best and other negotiation approaches, .

Andy Webber has been running leadership programmes for engineers for 15 years. In that time he has worked in more than 45 countries around the world and has developed both a strong cultural awareness and an understanding of the main challenges facing engineers in leadership roles.

Markus Lloyd: Head of Business Sales Operations, O2 Telefonica UK

Markus Lloyd enjoyed a career in the Army for 14 years before transitioning into civilian life. By focusing on a very small part of Infantry life, which involved lurking in ditches, whispering into radios, he managed to craft a CV around communications and joined Cable and Wireless, before moving to O2. Although none of this necessarily qualifies him to speak with any authority on matters of engineering, he has had to face a number of managerial challenges ranging from how to carry authority when placed in command of 30 people, all older and more experienced than him, to managing delicate situations where language barriers are compounded by a mixture of fear, arrogance, whiskey and weapons. Having worked for, with, alongside or in command of many people whose psychometric tests results would have Freud turning in his grave, his views on leadership and management should provide useful pointers for future leaders.

Christopher Simpson: Managing Director, Simpson Associates

Christopher Simpson is Managing Director of Simpson Associates, an international engineering consultancy providing advice and support to companies in the UK, USA, Germany and other European countries on strategy, performance improvement, project management, acquisitions and other business development. He holds a number of non-executive directorships in the UK and Germany.

He has been Chief Executive with major manufacturing corporations in the UK, USA and Germany. He has in depth knowledge of Germany and is fluent in the language. His specialist areas are advanced manufacturing and financial management. He has a first degree in engineering and is a Sloan Fellow at the London Business School.

Apart from his direct business activities, he is past Chairman of the UK Manufacturing Excellence Awards (MX), a Member of the Board of MX Germany, Past Chairman and current Board Member of the Manufacturing Division and of the Management Group at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers and a Freeman of the City of London.

Ian Warhurst: Owner, Grafton LSR Limited

Ian Warhurst is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, first degree in Mechanical Engineering Design and MSc in Engineering Project Management. Ian purchased Melett Ltd in 2002 - a small aftermarket turbocharger parts business with 3 employees and around £250K turnover. In the right place at the right time, with the introduction of common rail diesel and variable turbocharging technology, the market turned from small niche to high volume. Over the following 15 years, the business grew to become one to the largest aftermarket suppliers globally of turbocharger core assemblies, repair kits and components. The business won the Queens Award for Export 3 times selling to over 100 countries annually. In December 2017, Ian sold the business to the Wabtec Corporation by which time the company had grown to £30M turnover, 250 employees, manufacturing base’s in the UK and China and sales office and warehousing in the USA and Poland.

Ian attended the IMechE young managers conference in 1999. Throughout the growth of the business, Ian dealt with many typical business management, people management and strategic growth problems.

After selling the business, Ian contracted to work for the company for a further 12 months to assist in the transition of the business from private to public ownership and on 1st December 2018, he left with the plans to ‘retire as hard as humanly possible!

It was on the 7th December 2018, he found out about the plight of the Bloodhound Project which was in administration and about to be weighed in for scrap...... by the 14th he was the new owner of the assets and IP of the project. The story continues...!

Ian will be offering his insight into some of the management challenges he faced growing his business and will be giving an update on his latest project attempting to break the Land Speed Record....

James Arnold: Head of Design Systems, Lilium

James Arnold is a mechanical engineer with deep expertise in Lean Management, process design, and engineering excellence. He began his career as an engineer at Dyson, spent 7 years in operations consulting at McKinsey & Company, has run his own business, and now leads Design Systems and Process Excellence at high-growth aerospace startup Lilium. He has worked across dozens of industries and topics, led Lean transformation programmes affecting thousands of people, and designed or improved hundreds of products and processes.

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Overview

Day 1

09:00 - Programme

Day 2

08:00 - Programme

Day 3

08:00 - Programme

Liz Bennett: Manager? Leader? – What’s the difference? (CMI Module), .

John Hattam: Inspiring leaders - it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it (CMI Module), .

David Minchin: How do I lead when I'm not their manager?, Developing your approach to communication: understanding the importance of perspective

Eddie Winton: How do I lead across generations?, Solving problems innovatively

Steve Holloway: Giving feedback: handling difficult conversations, .

Sarah Thompson: Disagreeing without a fight: minimising destructive conflict, .

Paul Taylor: Getting to where you want to be: Self Help for 21st Century Engineers, .

Andy Webber: Barter with the best and other negotiation approaches, .

Markus Lloyd: Head of Business Sales Operations, O2 Telefonica UK

Christopher Simpson: Managing Director, Simpson Associates

Ian Warhurst: Owner, Grafton LSR Limited

James Arnold: Head of Design Systems, Lilium

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