POSTPONED: Essential Management Skills 2020

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Postponement of Essential Management Skills 2020 event

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is closely monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak and in line with government and FCO / WHO guidelines is implementing measures to ensure the health and safety of our attendees and supporting staff at IMechE events. Following UK Government advice to restrict social interaction and movement in public areas, we have therefore taken the decision to postpone the Essential Management Skills 2020 event due to take place on 1-3 April 2020. 

Please be assured that your delegate ticket will be carried over to the new event date. However, if you would like to refund your ticket, please email eventenquiries@imeche.org and we will aim to process this as soon as possible.

We hope you understand that, under the present fluctuating circumstances, it is not possible for us to confirm the date at this precise moment, however the new date will be communicated to you as soon as the scale of the impact of COVID-19 becomes clearer.

"I thoroughly enjoyed my few days at Warwick. The organisation was brilliant and the workshops were relevant, expertly delivered and memorable. It was fantastic to mix with Engineers from all other industries and the socialising/networking events were also very enjoyable. And whilst I would highly recommend this event to those interested in leadership and management, I would also recommend all engineers who may not have management responsibilities or aspirations."
Stuart Darney, Fleet Support Engineer, Porterbrook (Essential Management Skills 2019 delegate)

What does it take to be a truly effective manager? Gain the skills and knowledge needed at Essential Management Skills 2020!

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 Principles of Management and Leadership, awarded by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Essential Management Skills 2020 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 Principles of Management and Leadership

The Level 3 Award in Principles of Management and Leadership will help you supervise or manage a team to achieve clearly defined outcomes and provide you with a qualification as evidence of your 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 in Principles of Management and Leadership requires attendance of the following two workshops: Manager? Leader? – What’s the difference? and Leadership communication – building relationships and getting your message across. 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 - 1 April 2020

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 Power Unit for the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS team. They supply power units to the Williams Racing and Racing Point Formula 1 teams. On this visit, discover the best management processes to improve performance, observe how F1 Power Units are designed, manufactured and tested, and hear from the Director and Chief Engineers on the 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.

Booking multiple tickets (group discounts available) or on behalf of someone else? Email us

Accommodation and catering at Essential Management Skills 2020:

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.

Support your career development

Attending this event supports your Professional Development; if you're an IMechE Member, this can be tracked in the Career Developer section of your online account.

Day 1

09:00 - Programme

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Day 2

08:00 - Programme

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Day 3

08:00 - Programme

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 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.

Leadership communication – building relationships and getting your message across
Leadership is largely about influence and in order to effectively influence you need strong communication skills. Developing a powerful and flexible communication style is a great addition to an engineer’s toolkit and is a fundamental skill for effective managers. This workshop will help you develop your communication skills in the short term as well as focusing on the importance of communication in leadership and management roles. Attending this workshop will help you to communicate more clearly, improving the way you interact with your colleagues.

Workshops:

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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